Ben Overmyer's Site
The personal website of Ben Overmyer
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- 226 from 10 Oct 2007 to 29 Oct 2026
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2026 15
- Making terrain out of noise
- Transcribing the Accedence of Armorie
- What Heraldry and Japanese Mon Can Teach Us About Building Visual-Identity Generators
- Iron Arachne's 'Workshop' update
- July 2026 Update on Iron Arachne
- Progress on my textjam project
- Entering textjam spring 2026
- Building a custom native editor for my blog
- Spirit City, writing, and exercising creativity
- Recovering Windows Live Writer files
- Iron Arachne's eighth anniversary
- Sandwich Questionnaire
- Linux as daily driver, three months in
- Tech plans for January 2026
- Looking Ahead to 2026
2025 11
- 2025 Year in Review
- Running Linux on my gaming PC again
- Becoming a Student Again
- Revisiting the Kingdoms of Stone and Fire
- Migrated gemlog content into this site
- Dune: Awakening - First Impressions
- 2025 Mid-Year Review
- Awaiting Dune
- Old and New Experiences
- Small web and self-hosting in a world in crisis
- Looking Ahead to 2025
2024 3
2023 14
- 2023 Year in Review
- Upgrading the star and planet generators on Iron Arachne
- Retrospective on November 2023 wellness challenge
- Wellness challenge halfway point
- First week of wellness challenge
- Wellness challenge for November 2023
- State of my projects for October 2023
- Currently
- Old sites and art galleries
- Adding a coding reference section
- I got a tattoo!
- Pivoting back to full-stack developer
- Iron Arachne turns five
- Looking Ahead to 2023
2022 14
- 2022 Year in Review
- Old School Baroque
- Make the world small again
- First Day in Dragonflight
- Regarding social media, web presence, and dumpster fires
- Return to Blizzard
- Checking back in on Blizzard
- Word generation in Iron Arachne
- Iron Arachne Dungeon Generator and future plans
- Finished Shadowbringers
- No Man's Sky
- Upgrading the Iron Arachne planet generator
- April 2022 update on my RPG projects
- Looking ahead to 2022
2021 14
- 2021 Year in Review
- The New HeroQuest
- An Eventful Few Months
- Blizzard is dead to me.
- Hrenovuha, the horseradish liquor
- Open Source North 2021
- Old RPGs of Mine
- Games in progress
- Building things slowly, and with feeling
- A new wishlist for Star Wars: Galaxies 2
- Switching to Zola
- Another Forgotten Project: Mysteries of a Broken World
- Updating Ingenium: Dusting off the manuscript
- Looking Ahead to 2021
2020 10
2019 8
2018 16
- Year in Review 2018
- Designing an OSR Game Part 4: Alignment, Treasure, and Exploration
- My Breakfast: A Recipe and a Ritual
- Designing an OSR Game Part 3: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests
- Designing an OSR Game Part 2: Freeholds and Fatality
- On Gryphons and Their Kin
- Designing a New OSR Game
- Playing Characters You Hate
- Project Status, August 2018
- My Politics, 2018 Edition
- Heraldry Generation Pt. 3: Animal Charges and Windows Builds
- The Nature of DevOps
- Heraldry Generation Pt. 2: Go, Divisions, and Charges
- Heraldry Generation Pt. 1: Basics
- Generating Fantasy Worlds
- Regarding Silver Gryphon Games
2017 3
2016 7
2015 9
- Kettle, my personal dashboard app
- Tutorial: Dealing with Disk Space Errors in Linux
- Quick update, and Hugo
- Taking up the writing habit again
- Get Going with Laravel on Docker
- Making army lists in Age of Sigmar
- Age of Sigmar breaks Warhammer Fantasy, but it's worth it
- Migrated away from Heroku
- Monk is now a Ruby app.
2014 12
- The Craft of Code
- What Monk means for me
- Plans for Monk for Q1 2015
- A modern MUD?
- Gamehole Con, Day 1
- Gamehole Con, Day 0
- Star Wars Galaxies: A Community to Remember
- Getting Ready for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
- Contact Lost on Asherth
- The Salamanders take on Chaos Imperial Guard
- First Node.js Hackathon
- Conquering 2014: Goals for the New Year
2013 15
- 2013 Year in Review
- My Dimension in Rift
- My wishlist for a Star Wars Galaxies 2
- EverQuest Next Revealed
- Reawakening the Starborn
- Returning to Skyrim
- 10 Years Ago, in an MMO far, far away
- Build a Better Warrior in Rift
- Create Better Villains for your Adventure
- Profession Talents for Ingenium
- Being Defiant: Finishing Out Rift's Free Tier
- Being Defiant: Currencies Beyond Gold and Silver
- World of Warcraft, Modern RPGs, and the Gear Grind
- Crafting in Tabletop RPGs
- Conquering 2013: Goals for the Year
2012 18
- Succeeding Star Wars: Galaxies
- Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting
- Why I left Guild Wars 2 for EverQuest 2
- Guild Wars 2 is here!
- Anticipating Guild Wars 2
- Guild Wars 2 Final Beta Weekend
- On Game Launches
- Thoughts on Board Games
- Rediscovering Guild Wars
- The Lore of Starsiege: Tribes
- Live action role-playing. Why? Why not?
- Vox Draconis
- Lime Odyssey: Nostalgia
- Blacklight: Retribution First Impressions
- I killed Deathwing. Then, WoW died.
- Whatever happened to benovermyer.com and manatrance.com?
- Soviet Faction for DUST: Tactics
- SWTOR First Impressions: The Sith Sorcerer
2011 11
2010 5
2009 1
2008 27
- Learning to let go
- Age of Conan
- Back to the World of Warcraft, and...
- What do I do?
- What the client wants isn't always what they need
- Earth Day 2008
- Moving to mobile: how to work from any computer
- Do you really need that?
- Choice in the workplace? What will they think of next?
- Fear and aggression; the dark side, are they?
- Wake up with the sun and regain control of your life
- Finally, at long last...
- Once in awhile: a recipe
- Forget the rules and tell a story
- Connect and prosper
- Three lists that will save you time and keep you sane
- The art of eating M&Ms
- Another clash of the generations
- The workplace? Nah, we need the lifeplace.
- On leveling and collections in Star Wars Galaxies
- Get an awesome new hobby to improve and enrich your life!
- Web workers don't need Stuff.
- The art of positive deletion
- The Imperial March
- Free software, free world
- Leveraging Web 2.0 for a tabletop gaming company
- From Lord of the Rings Online to...
2007 13
- Yuletide in Lord of the Rings Online
- Minstrels in green linen
- Web standards, browsers, and the future of the web
- The Lord of the Rings Online: Introducing Ceolrigan
- T-Mobile must be boycotted
- Why Jorn Barger is wrong and the rest of the world is right
- Fitness full time
- Liberty vs economy: How far can we go?
- Second Life, MMORPGs, and conversation
- Stream of consciousness, part one: the Internet
- Live free. Live open source.
- Partisanship is vile. What loss to this country...
- True open source - death of the individual or celebration of individualism?