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2026 1

  1. Picolibrary: a very small press

2025 4

  1. Is it a joke?
  2. Blue Prince (1989)
  3. Responses to the Hacker News comment on Six Mistakes
  4. Six mistakes I made and one I avoided

2024 1

  1. Building a game with the Real Engine

2023 6

  1. Middles updates, design, and prior art
  2. Middles: A Daily Word Game
  3. A review of one puzzle from Quern: Undying Thoughts
  4. 2023 05 30 turds
  5. Dev journal for Deco Deck, my new indie game
  6. Rarely seen game mechanics

2022 5

  1. Mosaic River, my third indie game
  2. Response to some Hacker News comments on Stable Diffusion
  3. I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion
  4. Surfwords update
  5. My second solo indie game

2021 1

  1. Perhaps The Stars

2020 1

  1. Pottery, at the beginning of 2020

2018 3

  1. A problem I don't know how to solve
  2. Ceramics update
  3. Variance and dynamic range in Lost Cities and Keltis

2017 6

  1. Visual cryptography
  2. Set Tactics
  3. Robust game designs
  4. Greebled Teapot
  5. Variables and constants
  6. Rules; Reverence for religion

2016 9

  1. Underground Airlines and the point of democracy
  2. Analogies for Git
  3. Against generality
  4. Whipsaw!
  5. Projective
  6. Word Freq
  7. Computers and law
  8. Feldcon
  9. 2016 08 14 lamp