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

• Work on my game projects at least three times a week: Had a small spell mid-month where I got to things but didn't give this nearly …

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

This past month I spent recharging myself. This meant that a lot of things went by the wayside while I was relaxing.

• Work on my game …

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

• Work on my game projects at least three times a week: This month was also difficult for me to do anything related to game design. I …

Ran into an interesting issue with the Python multiprocessing library under Windows, where the code that I had written would hang. It was the equivalent of this:

from multiprocessing import Pool

...

with Pool() as pool:
    results = pool.starmap(foo, arglist)

This was in part because of how Windows was forking …

There's one element of programming that I wish I had learned early on. One of the things that programming books (especially beginner programming books) do is try to make it seem like programming is fun. They create cute experiments for you to tinker with in the hopes that you'll become …