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 …
read moreChasing the whale
At Coffee House Coders I've joked that JavaScript is my white-whale language (aka the language that I've tried to learn for many years and haven't yet achieved). That's not entirely true though. While JavaScript is definitely A white whale language it's not the only white whale language for me. No …
read moreMarkets and Programmers
I was leafing through an eBook copy of The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler last night. Overall the book has some good advice for programmers who want to get better with their craft, but one section of advice really irritates me, in part because it's reminiscent of advice that I've …
read moreFear
Fear is such a fun topic to think about because it's one of those primal drivers of our own human existence. We can't seem to get away from fear and yet we do everything in our power to try very hard to minimize it's effects in our lives. We're constantly …
read moreDigital Declutter and Learning Godot checkin for 2019-04-29
I'm nearing the end of my digital declutter. This is my check-in for the week:
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Reduce my use of social media to only a few times per day. I've had some mixed success with this. I'm starting to feel the pull of wanting to check in more to see how …
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