Took a look at the older posts on this blog. I was just curious where my head-space was back then. Here's what I found in the formative years of the blog:

• I'd converted over to a hand-written MySQL posting engine, which is how those posts were preserved (I'd written posts …

I've mentioned before that I got addicted to reading a lot of self-help books over the years. Part of that is because of the breezy way they're written. There's not a lot of difficult things between the covers. Many of them are pieced-together anecdotes and fit the narrative of the …

Checking in for May for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Dropping expectations: This month was challenging for me. A lot of expectations that I had about my ability to work on things kept cropping up. I …

I've finally released "The Mediocre Programmer" to the world. This is a project that I started in 2018 after a year of unemployment and the many interviews that happened during that process. I felt that other developers might be helped by knowing that they're not somehow defective in their journey …

I've been thinking about the reasons why I wanted to become a game designer. I grew up in an era when arcade machines were plentiful and ubiquitous, and the home video game experience could be had in media like cartridges, cassettes, and floppy disks. I looked forward to magazines like …