Archive
Not sure where to start? Here’s a smattering of posts from over the years that’ll give you an idea of what this is all about.
2024
Threads still sucks
Against my better judgment, I decided to give Threads another try, and it’s only marginally better than I remembered, wh...
Cloud Imperium continues to sound like a super shitty place to work
Nic Reuben for Rock Paper Shotgun: According to internal memos obtained by Insider Gaming, the Manchester (game?) studi...
Silent Hill 2 remake endings streamed online
Jordan Middler for VGC: Silent Hill 2‘s ending, as well as multiple secret endings, have been streamed on YouTube, with...
On startup culture
My friend sent me a post by a guy who works at a semi-local startup. In it, he talks about how tough but rewarding it is...
Turned up to 11ty
This is a quick update: I've rebuilt my site using 11ty. I'm sorry if you're seeing duplicate entries in your RSS reader...
Thoughts on the WordPress drama
Jyolsna for WP Tavern: Mullenweg criticized [WP Engine] for contributing little to the WordPress community’s “Five for ...
I can’t wait until news articles stop including crucial information via embedded Tweets. They are unreliable and often d...
Naturally, they tease Yanagi in Zenless Zone Zero as I’m preparing to spend my stockpile of polychrome on Caesar.
On the Rocksteady layoffs
Here are some quick thoughts on this situation and broader layoffs across the gaming industry. If I’ve missed or misunde...
WWDC24 and Apple Intelligence
I found WWDC24 to be a mixed bag. I’m excited about the quality-of-life updates across Mac and iPhone, including the new...
Zenless Zone Zero'd
Zenless Zone Zero is a game I’m excited to play, but things have changed recently. During the last round of beta testing...
Yeah but Windows
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft is confident that it finally nailed the transition to Arm chips — so confident that...
Phones
Robb posted about the phones he’d owned over the years, and it reminded me of a note I’d started a while back and never ...
It runs Android, so what?
Ron Amadeo for Ars: Rabbit Inc. is right to use Android, or specifically as much of AOSP as it can. Forget about all th...
Apple AI pin
Watching reviews for Humane’s AI pin, I can’t help but wonder why someone hasn’t just clipped an Apple Watch to a shirt....
Thoughts on running your own Mastodon instance
This past week, after much deliberation and a post by Mike at Shellsharks, I decided to spin up my own Mastodon instance...
Thoughts on Webmentions
I read Terence’s post about webmentions and thought I’d add my two cents. I removed webmentions, brid.gy, and any Activi...
Weeknotes #004
2024 has been off to a weird start. At the end of January, I got let go of my job. I was initially frustrated by the who...
Linkedout
I’ve been spending an uncomfortable amount of time on LinkedIn lately, which is to say more than 5 minutes, and I’ve not...
Design contests
If you’re a company considering a design contest, where you solicit free work from trained designers for your websites, ...
You need dev tools and a command-line to fix the Pixel’s storage bug
Last week, reports surfaced that some Pixel owners were being locked out of their phone’s local storage, creating a nea...
Reikon reportedly cuts 80% of staff
Chris Scullion for VGC: Kotaku’s sources say that around four out of every five employees at Reikon have been laid off,...
Some thoughts on saving links
Seeing Andy Bell and Sophie Koonin’s posts about their link post setups made me think I’ve been doing links wrong for a ...
Devs weigh-in as Palworld Pokémon plagiarism accusations worsen
Andy Robinson for VGC: According to two experienced AAA game artists who spoke to VGC, the model comparisons on X are l...
That old feeling
I was admittedly skeptical of 2024 being a return for personal blogging. That said, I’ve been following breadcrumb trail...
Poe’s history with Alan Wake goes far beyond the games'
Eric Van Allen for Destructoid: Before Alan Wake was released in May 2010, there was a book called House of Leaves, wri...
Remember Ello?
Andy Baio: Digging through SEC filings, I discovered that the newly-launched indie social network had taken nearly half...
Weeknotes 003
I knew getting into a regular cadence with these updates would be an uphill battle but it’s been particularly tough to g...
Winnipeg unveils 150th anniversary graphic
Arturo Chang for CBC: The graphic features multiple symbols representing Winnipeg, including a prairie crocus (the prov...
The indieweb need a search engine
Follow me, if you will, on a journey. This is largely a brain dump but there’s a point and an idea in here somewhere.. I...
The indieweb has a user experience problem
I feel that so much of the existing infrastructure and tools of the IndieWeb have been built without the input of people...
Microsoft’s disastrous Xbox One reveal
It was remarkable how badly it went from the very beginning. Steven Asarch for Kotaku: The [announcement] event spent m...
People voted for some pretty weird stuff during this year’s Steam Awards
Graham Smith for RPS: The player-voted Steam Awards have reached their conclusion, and the results are about as weird a...
2023
Books I read in 2023
I fell pretty hard into manga last year. In 2023, my tastes continued to evolve. I developed a good understanding of the...
GM’s in-car software is about as good as many people expected
GM pissed a lot of people off when they announced they were moving away from CarPlay and Android Auto. When the rubber h...
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that some venture capitalists worship a machine that can create soulless facsimiles of oth...
Remembering James McCaffrey’s Director Trench
Gita Jackson for Aftermath: In many ways I don’t think Control works without McCaffrey’s performance. His Trench gives ...
Games I played in 2023
This was a year of change. I leaned really hard into console gaming this year, specifically Xbox, after being pretty foc...
Apple breaks Beeper’s iMessage app again as company tries rallying users
Kevin Purdy for Ars Technica: [Migicovsky] wrote that it was up to the press and the community. “If there’s enough pres...
Weeknotes 002
It took two weeks but I’m finally feeling better. Having run the gamut of headaches, nausea, fever, chills, and back to ...
Weeknotes 001
I’ve watched Michael Camilleri write over 200 of these things so I thought it might be time to give it a shot myself. I ...
App defaults 2023
Some background on this post: I saw Manuel Moreale’s list earlier today and thought it was a neat little idea. After a b...
Comics lately are so confusing. Why does Nightcrawler have to be Spider-Man? Can he just be, you know, Nightcrawler?
Marvel releasing yet another Edge of Spider-Verse series next year
David Brooke for AIPT: Marvel Comics has announced a new Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries for February featuring brand n...
The NHL will let players use Pride Tape after all
Benjamin Blum for CBC: The National Hockey League is ending its ban on players supporting social causes on their equipm...
I stopped playing Final Fantasy XIV sometime after Endwalker was released, but with the game finally coming to Xbox next...
Decade
Waneella’s first monograph is a must-have portal into the world of her pixel art, documenting a decade of work as well ...
I’m in a lull between games having finished Stafield and waiting for Alan Wake II. So far I’ve tried Sea of Stars, which...
Twitch is adding stories to their mobile app
Ash Parrish for The Verge: Stories on Twitch will function just like the feature does on other social media apps. Quali...
First jerseys, now the NHL is banning Pride tape too
Cyd Ziegler for Outsports: In just 10 months, years of important, positive advancements in the NHL and men’s hockey at ...
Grindr enters the “find out” phase of return-to-work
Nathaniel Meyersohn for CNN: LGBTQ dating app Grindr ended its remote work policies and forced employees to relocate. N...
Amazon unveils new widget-focused UI for upcoming Echo Hub device
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy for The Verge: The new smart home-focused widgets make it easy to interact with to do things li...
Sam Lake’s comments about longer games
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell for Rock Paper Shotgun: [Lake] himself has difficulty setting aside hours for longer games. “[It’...
Rumours suggest a $100 price increase for iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max
Benjamin Mayo for 9to5Mac: The analyst is expecting the base model iPhone 15 price to remain unchanged, but sees $100 p...
Amazon CEO says “it’s probably not going to work out” for remote workers
Emma Roth for The Verge: In a recording of the meeting obtained by Insider, Jassy told workers, “It’s past the time to ...
87% of classic games are critically endangered
Kelsey Lewin for the Video Game History Foundation: For accessing nearly 9 in 10 classic games, there are few options: ...
Microsoft is adding a crypto wallet to Edge for some reason
Tom Warren for The Verge: Microsoft Edge will advertise the ability to purchase cryptocurrency from Coinbase and MoonPa...
Amazon cutting an additional 9,000 jobs
Gary Ng for iPhone in Canada: Amazon announced on Monday plans to eliminate about 9,000 more positions in the next few ...
The problem with Mammoth
Mammoth, a new app for Mastodon, launched in the iOS App Store this past week and something about it hasn’t been sitting...
Former Callisto Protocol team members left out of game’s credits
CJ Wheeler for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: None of the developers who spoke out about being omitted from the credits felt tha...
Sony introduces its accessibility controller kit, Project Leonardo
PlayStation Blog: Through conversations with accessibility experts and incredible organizations like AbleGamers, Specia...
Square Enix sees NFTs as solution to problem that can be solved right now without them
Jonathan Bolding for PC Gamer: [SE President Yosuke Matsuda] is unreservedly enthusiastic about the idea that “token ec...
2022
The return of personal blogging
Monique Judge for The Verge: Watching the demise of Twitter under the helm of Elon Musk has made me nostalgic for the p...
The appeal of Dead Space wasn’t the violence
Rich Stanton for PC Gamer: While I enjoy a good grisly death animation, [The Callisto Protocol’s] protagonist here real...
Mobile carrier apps rife with trackers
Jonathan Lamont for MobileSyrup: Within a few hours of downloading the My Telus app, I noticed that DuckDuckGo’s App Tr...
Post.news
I got my invite for Post and it’s rough, even for a beta. Payment and tipping systems were prioritized over basic securi...
Diablo IV’s crunch and controversy
Graham Smith for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: [Activision Blizzard] employees say that impossible deadlines, managerial indeci...
Former Tripwire CEO upset that his actions have consequences
Andy Chalk for PC Gamer: Tripwire Interactive co-founder John Gibson blamed what he called “social terrorism” for being...
No remake planned for Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Andy Robinson for Video Games Chronicle: Speaking to website Noisy Pixel, series producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi said tha...
Signalis invokes classic survival horror
Nic Reuben for Rock, Paper, Shotgun: If you’ve got any affection for PS1 survival horror, queer android love stories, c...
New Superman series coming in February
Rich Johnston for Bleeding Cool: It was revealed at New York Comic Con today that a brand-new Superman ongoing monthly ...
DC has a Jim Lee problem
I wish more than anything that DC would move on from using art drawn by Jim Lee to promote new events, initiatives, char...