I was a big fan of Sokpop's previous games - they used to release a very small game every single month. Some of them, like Stacklands, ended up becoming full-sized titles. Their output was proof, I suppose, that you can constantly make loads of games on a fast schedule without AI if you are disciplined about reusing your resources. You can see their Steam developer page here. I think playing a lot of their games in a row can teach you a ton about scoping projects and reusing stuff. It's pretty…

There are stages in layout construction where I have to make a list and push through the steps required to find myself able to enjoy the process once more…Moving from cardboard mock up to plastic rendition has taken five years on Defiance’s big brother - it is no surprise that this step is one that is to some degree, a necessary evil. I will enjoy what follows - for now, deliberate steps forward ensure focus is retained.I enjoy photographing my work throughout the creative process. Whilst…

When I worked full time, I used to envy full-time cruisers. Their full-time cruising lifestyle seemed very appealing, but I've come to embrace “commuter sailing”, which is balancing stretches at sea with time back home. After four months of sailing around Western Australia, it was good to be home again.Home does not mean an end to sailing, though. I could hardly wait to sail to Kangaroo Island, my favorite sailing destination. Autumn gave way to winter, with storms more frequent and seas less…

Although it sounds like another big fish story, Great Big Nature’s naturalist, Brian Keating, recently snorkelled with about 100 big mature Bull trout out near Banff, Alberta., Canada! The Bull trout is Alberta’s official Provincial fish. Its populations have been in serious decline for decades and are now a threatened species. “It was tricky ‘sneaking’ up to the fish to observe them (they were easily spooked), but we found the best way was to swim up-wind, and allow the breeze to gently blow…

This is one of those posts that I’m sure I will have to look up in the future at least once. I am accustomed to being able to use my clipboard’s contents, right after pressing ^C. KDE however immediately parses what I copy and if it looks like a URL, it presents a menu with applications that know how to handle a URL. KDE’s unnamed ^C URL menu I find this annoying. I have no idea what exactly the application I select is going to do with the URL, well, except perhaps for the two browsers. My…

The Czech version of this article was published on 23rd September 2014. Somehow, I forgot (or was too lazy) to translate it. But now is the time to remediate this mistake.To conclude, here’s a strategic overview of the situation: the invading forces are clinging on for dear life in the Valley Principality, and the local inhabitants aren’t content to just stand by and watch. Above all, a local group of hunters led by Captain Halfred. The whole story unfolds behind the front line, where only the…

It might seem a little early to be reading a Christmas-set mystery, but I figured it might be useful to share my thoughts on this book (especially given how good it is) ahead of the Christmas season, so folks have time to buy it. I have a few more Christmas-set mysteries coming up in November for my Patreon supporters, so by the end of that month I will have a few more titles to add to my ever-growing ranked list of Christmas mysteries. I really enjoyed the other title that I read by Jonathan…

Editor’s Note: Post originally published on September 14, 2022. I struggle with the sin of pride. I often hate to admit I made a mistake. Even if it is a minor one. I tend to blow the error out of proportion in my mind. This leads to me spiraling into a descent of despair. Reason … Continue reading How Saint Teresa of Avila Cut Through My Exterior with Her Interior Castle The post How Saint Teresa of Avila Cut Through My Exterior with Her Interior Castle first appeared on The Simple Catholic.…

These Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs are tender, juicy, and coated in a sweet and savoury homemade teriyaki glaze that is simply irresistible. Easy to make and packed with flavour, they're perfect served over rice with your favourite vegetables for a quick weeknight supper that tastes like takeout, only better.Quick enough for busy weeknights but special enough for company, this simple dish delivers big flavour with very little fuss. Asian inspired flavours make this a meal the whole family will…

I went back to Rickmansworth yesterday and remembered several old High Street shops. Mac Fisheries I remember Mac Fisheries, it smelt of fish, all these fish laid out on slabs at the front of the store open to the street, a regular high street staple in the 1970s, I imagine jolly fishmongers in blue and white striped aprons doling out bright yellow haddock to housewives wearing hats, my Mum never wore a hat to go shopping, we'd get the bus down from Croxley and it'd drop us off right outside…

Top House Republicans Have Abandoned All Hope Top congressional Republicans have privately told Politico reporters that holding the House is a lost cause. Five leaders said the situation is dire and that the House has all but slipped away and it is too late to fix the situation. One of them said that they were trying to save as many seats as possible, but it won't be enough. A senior House Republican said that Donald Trump was not helping them. He said: "President Trump has made this election…

Those are the words of Mike Bracken, the former head of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS), as he reflected on his departure back in 2015. “We now have a different set of ministers, a different group of permanent secretaries, and you have to win these arguments over again. Just because you’ve won them once doesn’t mean you’ve won them permanently, especially in a system that will roll back to what it knows… If government continues to not look at institutional reform as a…

We think Titus Lucretius Carus died on this date, October 15, in 55 B.C. at roughly age forty-four. We know he wrote the philosophical poem De rerum natura, usually translated On the Nature of Things. Though read less often than other Roman poets, Lucretius can be traced in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, Henry David Thoreau, George Santayana, Wallace Stevens and Guy Davenport. I’ve stumbled on him again while reading The Search for Roots: A Personal Anthology, ed b Primo Levi…

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Wattle is now at v0.2.2 and I’ve used it to make the executable for Predoc!

I've been feeling prettt alright. My medicine has been doing it's job, so I'm honestly feeling way closer to 100% than I have in a long time. I hopefully found a new friend to hang out with some time soon. Tomorrow is commander night with another friend. I'm feeling plenty ready to get back to work tomorrow. My medical bills were honestly less expensive than I was expecting. I even wrote a fun new (spicy) fanfiction. I think I'm doing pretty good right now, just gotta relax, get more…

Perfume PosseSweet Tooth Lemon Pie by Sabrina Carpenter Hi Posse. I was trawling Surrender To Chance a while back, looking at what was new. Sweet Tooth Lemon Pie by Sabrina Carpenter came up. It was released 2025 and I like her music. In the basket it went. It’s… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseSweet Tooth Lemon Pie by Sabrina Carpenter

Thursday 15th October 2026 Continuing this year’s exploration of the many new bus routes introduced around the country this year, saw me recently visit Peterborough and Southampton, as both cities have coincidentally just added a route numbered 26 to their local networks. And in both cases part of the route serves new residential developments so I’m guessing Developer Section 106 funding, as well as Local Authority Bus Grants, has helped kick start the services. Peterborough’s route 26 began…

14 Lady | INDEX | 16 Gangly Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.

Book review for Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones by James Clear. I rated it 3.5 stars. I hated on Atomic Habits when I first read it, as I felt it didn’t quite compare to The Power of Habit. Now doing a re-read 7 years laters, I can begrudgingly start to see its merits a bit more. Atomic Habit does solve the only criticism I had with Power of Habit - that although it does a good job of explaining the science behind habits, it did not have enough…

Pressure is always around us in many forms: atmospheric pressure, pressure of the mattress against our body during our sleep, peer pressures, internal pressures born from old relational patterns that make us react with age-old learned reflexes when confronted to similar pressures in the present... Pressure is part of living. Being "under" the pressure is not the only way to deal with pressure. One might decide that some kind of pressure may be dealt without connecting any kind of emotion to it,…

Back to The Lugg, couldn't stay away for long - there was exploring to do. Clear water, ideal for a bit of fish spotting - loads of chub seen. Not ideal for the perch. Several size, colour and style lures but the perch were reluctant. Lots missed or bumped, and only two landed. But that didn't matter - I got what I was really after. Cracking, snaggy fight in the narrow river. A small river with pike - perfect!

The first professional program that I wrote was way back in 1998 along with Gaurang where we both created an accounting, inventory and point of sales system for the Air Force Wives Welfare Association (AFWWA) in Hindon. It was the first paid project that we both worked on while still in school. We developed the system called Vent over a few months before our class 12th exams started and deployed it at Hindon, then we both got busy studying for the board exams and then with college. There was a…

Me: Why do they even call them clutch bags? Them: Clutch bags? Me: Yeah, that poster over there at the department store mentions “clutch bags” being on special. Does it involve a transmission of some sort!? Them: Isn’t it because you clutch it? Me: Pardon? Them: Clutch it… as in, hold onto it? Me: … Them: … Me: Well don’t I feel foolish. Them: Yeah, well you should. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-10-15.

The Melburys – Bill, Susan, and their mother – have been living in a crowded London flat until Mrs. Melbury’s Cousin Fay dies and unexpectedly leaves her a cottage in Cumberland, in the Lake District. There’s a catch: they must live there for five years running or it will be sold and Fay’s son would get the proceeds. Bill has just made his school’s second team (Rugby? Cricket?) but swallows his disappointment, and he and Susan encourage their mother to make the move, which happens quickly. Read…

Some days, you just need to escape "the office" and go to watch the countryside pass by from the top deck of a vintage bus. A couple of weeks ago, I had such a moment, but it handily coincided with an event at the Transport Museum, Wythall. Off I toddled, and spent the day riding around on old Brummie buses, enjoying a workshop tour, and some nice grub. Just what the doctor ordered, or at least I'm sure he would, if I'd asked him. There's not much more to say, other than there are more photos…

Elena Rossini: W Social is a European social media company that launched in Davos earlier this year, during the World Economic Forum. I have written a series of articles about them; […] […] I wonder: are W Social verified users aware that their personal details (first name, last name, nationality and approx. birthday) are being shared OUTSIDE of W Social and published as a permanent record on the web, in plain text? This has to be in violation of European privacy laws, right? No way would…

I’ve been writing my newsletter for 9.5 years now. This thing has had the same format since 2017 and has really been my consistent “thing” through marriage, moving cross-country, a pandemic, having kids, changing companies, and so on. It’s definitely a labor of love. I’ve lost quite a bit of sleep on it over the years, but it’s important to me. It’s led to such cool connections between humans around the internet (Ten and David met this week after realizing they were both visiting Japan while…