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2026 3

  1. Ten Years of Contempt Culture
  2. Dreams Light the Path to our Future
  3. Every Word a Mountain

2023 1

  1. Finding Words

2022 2

  1. I Was on RNZ!
  2. I Was on the Radio!

2021 5

  1. The Cryptodystopia
  2. Resentment, or, on Trains
  3. I Got Cited
  4. The 2010s
  5. Dark Souls 3

2020 5

  1. One Last Journey
  2. On Cloud Island, Finishing Something, and Federation
  3. Working from Home
  4. 17 202x
  5. The Relentless Tedium of Chasm

2018 9

  1. Tomb Raider (2018)
  2. A Year in Review, Jan 28 to Mar 18
  3. On Forced Complicity in Games
  4. A Year in Review, Jan 21 to Jan 28
  5. A Year in Review, Jan 14 to Jan 21
  6. A Year in Review, Jan 07 to Jan 14
  7. A Year in Review, Jan 01 to Jan 07
  8. So I Wrote that Thing
  9. Gaming, 2017 Edition

2017 12

  1. Joke Accounts and the BOFH are Garbage
  2. The That Guy Effect
  3. The (Deep) Time Of Your Life
  4. Ceci n'est pas une pipeline problem
  5. More Fun with Terraform Templates
  6. Fun with Terraform Template Rendering
  7. Trusting Trust
  8. Impostor Syndrome
  9. How to Make a Book of Photography
  10. There Is No Meritocracy
  11. Secondary Effects
  12. Human Driven Development at LCA

2016 12

  1. That PHP Graph
  2. Watching me Talk
  3. A Collected Set of Data
  4. Your Team In Four Dimensions
  5. Linear A
  6. Stellaris, an Update
  7. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
  8. A Pile of Things
  9. 8 fly
  10. Civ 6
  11. A Day with Stellaris
  12. Contempt Culture

2015 11

  1. Destiny
  2. So I Started a Business
  3. A New Place
  4. 100% Schmundred percent
  5. (Almost) Actually Better Cameras
  6. Twitter
  7. Ori and the Blind Forest
  8. Why Can't We Have Nice Things
  9. What does this Solve?
  10. Recoveries
  11. Civilization: Beyond Earth

2014 22

  1. Early Thoughts on Wasteland 2
  2. Confidence All The Things
  3. The Ethical Difficulty of Supporting Android
  4. No, You Get Out
  5. The Lifeless State of Decay
  6. Metafocus and Editing Photos
  7. The Death of App.net
  8. Sexism is Ruining Gravity Rush
  9. Velvet Assassin, and Time to Sexism
  10. Announcement, I MADE A THING
  11. Aperture, Lightroom, and Shipping
  12. Writing in Games Remains Garbage
  13. 15 pycon
  14. Oculus and Facebook
  15. Remember How to Care
  16. On the Long, Slow Road of Recovery
  17. Towards Amazing Cameras
  18. Infinite Disappointment
  19. Boring Game is Boring
  20. Depression
  21. Camerista
  22. Target the Brain

2013 34

  1. Homefront
  2. That Tangled Sense of Loss
  3. Change of Scenery
  4. They're Not Stupid, You're Just an Asshole
  5. Dear Esther
  6. New Camera
  7. Startup Weekend Wellington
  8. Went Home
  9. Old Glass
  10. On Being Awesome
  11. Papers, Please
  12. Coming to Grips with Mass Effect 3
  13. Teleglitch, now on Steam (and Mac!)
  14. Tension in Gaming
  15. 14 nethui
  16. On Metro Last Light
  17. It's Hard to Ship
  18. Fear, Shame, and Anger
  19. Do Androids Dream of Inbox Zero?
  20. Android, an Update
  21. That Which Does Not Kill You
  22. The First Lessons
  23. Nexus and iPhone
  24. Talking about Talking about Code
  25. Delightful Shiny New
  26. The Open Web
  27. Firefox OS Dev Day
  28. We Need to Talk
  29. To-do is Crap
  30. Time Enough for Everything
  31. The Endless War of Should
  32. Living with ADHD
  33. 10 raging
  34. Additional Thoughts on Skyfall

2012 15

  1. Skyfall
  2. What if Doom had been a Roguelike?
  3. 15 Minutes to Delicious
  4. This is a privilege system! I know this!
  5. The Tool-Task Dichotomy
  6. Amazing Noodle Soup, Ramen Style
  7. Surface Details
  8. Dishonoured, Gaming Storytelling
  9. Mobile Computing and Me
  10. Forest-Tree Misalignment
  11. For a Few Characters More
  12. So, that Steam Thing
  13. Beer of the People
  14. The Language of Computers
  15. History Tastes Weird