Just did a quick back-of-the envelope install of pump.io. Unfortunately I bombed out half-way through because the node.js on 12.04 is ancient by all accounts. Worse: apparently one of the ways to install a newer node.js has my favorite pet-peeve of requiring you to run curl …

(This is in response to John Wick's "Chess is not an RPG" post. Read that first lest you succumb to my ramblings mid-stream).

Part of my game design learning has been working out mental models of how to translate certain Role Playing Game concepts into computer game concepts. I think …

At Pycon 2014 I saw Julie Pagano's talk "It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech" which struck a nerve with me. It showed me that there's a name for some of the feelings that I've felt both in my career and in my technical life.

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JoDee posted a bit about our drive down to her work last Monday. Needless to say it was quite eventful, and we spent most of the evening trying to figure out how the heck we were going to get home. Fortunately we were able to take another road that was …

We just moved so I've had a heck of a time trying to find things like charging cables and what-not. Most of the devices in the house use some form of USB charging so that hasn't been an issue. I have a Pebble watch that uses a special charging cable …