Blogs tagged "variety"

PSA: Bubbles.town has a widget I am a big fan of bubbles.town, a relatively new website to make it easier to discover...

Pallet Wood Crafting Table One of my favorite YouTube channels is EpicUpCycling. If you don't know it, check it out. ...

Auto-Delete old Mails from GMail My inbox is a mess. While I manage to maintain a somewhat close to “Inbox Zero” at w...

Making the rounds last week was this magnificent article on the complications of Arabic typesetting, An interactive i...

While cleaning out my office today, I found this, which I wrote in 1992: In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation di...

(Very much previously: Egyptian Fractions) Back in March, I had been reading On the Egyptian method of decomposing in...

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically ...

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventu...

Biked in Hollandse Duinen National Park with a distance of 37.40 kilometres. Hollandse Duinen National Park runs alon...

Biked in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park with a distance of 31.34 kilometres. Zuid-Kennemerland National Park sits on...

Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 1: The Age of the Early Church Fathers. It ...

It’s been a busy two weeks on the site :)

Nine books I’m always reading.

A method for documenting & understanding processes when people say there isn’t a process.

It turns out that a _very_ long HDMI cable, a Steam Controller 2 and Bazzite on a second drive was all I needed to ge...

FOSS tools are empowering and increasingly valuable in a world where model providers can degrade your experience. So ...

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end res...

It really is so simple and has such a big impact!

Notetaking on Adorno's "Aesthetic Theory."

Transcribing the artifact.

The title - Hiding - is a pretty good description of the state of mind I find myself in right now. I could leave it a...

If you had told me a year ago, that I’d be living in a new apartment now, I wouldn’t have taken you seriously, laughi...

A list of 40 Questions to ask yourself every year. I saw it elsewhere, and decided to give it a go. – What did you do...

Salutations, friends! It has been a time since I’ve had the notion of treating ChaoticanWriter.com as a place to talk...

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

A review of Rolling Thunder, the 1986 NAMCO arcade platformer, in which I praise everything about the game.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Casset...

Maternal Uncle's Funeral Permalink to section 'Maternal Uncle's Funeral' # On 21 May 2026, we received the news that ...

My journey at 42 the computer science school is coming to an end. On 14 May 2026, the staff of my local campus of 42 ...

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Archiving the old blog CSS. Just in case.

I like things that make me think.

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

We encounter charts, graphics, and statistics, and rather than interrogating them, we fold them into what we already ...

I have a handful of games that need completing. This is my Summer Game Challenge for 2026.

This post is about brand loyalty and how the magic of marketing and public relations often hides a rancid base note.

A review of Rolling Thunder, the 1986 NAMCO arcade platformer, in which I praise everything about the game.

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

Today is Father's Day! The World The Iran crisis has been resolved! Sort of. The US and Iran signed some kind of inte...

It is the year of our lord 2026 and here I am writing a review for a game I played on PS3! Quick explanation: I was t...

The World Iran crisis still unresolved. Trump claims they are very close to signing a deal, but he's said that someth...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

Daniel Fletcher shared some very sad news with me. His father—my friend—Ted Fletcher, passed away today. Ted Fletcher...

I can’t help but feel that blogrolls are now suddenly more relevant than they have ever been. I found myself revisiti...

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner...

Software engineering practices differ between domains and companies. Who’d have thought?

I made a list of all the journals and conferences that have been featured in my paper summaries on this blog.

This week’s paper about citation farming is right at the intersection of two of my “favourite” subjects: AI slop and ...