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- The Book of Apshai—a personal exegesis
- Rubber-ducking it with an LLM
- Three months with the Yale Assure deadbolt
- I read The Grasshopper King
- April 2023
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- Raise your eyes to one who loves you
- Stuff I did (and stopped doing) in 2021
- How I fixed my controller lag
- December 2021
- November 2021
- I’d like to hear you say your name
- Notes on The Sandman: Act II (Eps. 12-21)
- Notes on The Sandman: Act II (Eps. 1-11)
- October 2021
- Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 17-20)
- Forgive me if I don’t shake your hand
- Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 10-16)
- Notes on Audible’s The Sandman (Eps. 1-9)
- Oh wow, a radio-play adaptation of The Sandman
- September 2021
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- July 2021
- Emulate crap TVs for sweet old games
- Three tips for Paradise Killer investigators
- I read Lolita
- Ship that giraffe
- June 2021
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- January 2021
- How and why I deleted 40,000 tweets
- I loved Disco Elysium
- 🍿🍿🍿
- I got a job
- Pleasant thoughts about Spider-Man
- What needs to happen now
- A new style guide for Perl documentation
- I read some of The Outside
- December 2020
- November 2020
- I read You Never Forget Your First
- Historical games should not flinch from history
- Regarding “Rooms as UX Metaphor”
- I read The Dragon Waiting (and Draco Concordans)
- October 2020
- September 2020
- To my friends not voting for Biden
- Farewell to Shadow, and all the others
- Eulogy for a superhero
- A new guide about Bise
- I might call it “Scaredy-chat”
- August 2020
- To my friends at Facebook
- “Soft green hills straddling the convergence of creeks”
- Further procgen thoughts
- Subcutanean, a procgen horror novel
- I played Sayonara Wild Hearts
- July 2020
- I like date-based version numbering
- I re-read Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Jots, scraps, and tailings, a new microblog
- Independence Day, 2020
- June 2020
- Annihilation, an excellent but overlong music video
- Announcing Whim, a Webmention multitool
- An Aeropress trick for better coffee (maybe)
- Black Lives Matter, 2020
- May 2020
- Revisiting Proof after 20-odd years
- Make my protagonists amazing and incompetent
- I really like Streets of Rage 4
- Narrascope! and an IndieWeb meetup, both this month
- Reflections on Kelly’s 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- April 2020
- Taking out the trash
- Regression therapy through computer-language documentation
- Masks are clothes now, and we should all wear them
- Webmentions, active and passive
- IFTF has some paid-project requests for proposals
- March 2020
- Dispatch from locked-down New York, March 2020
- Friends, we gotta keep walking
- I played Root, an asymmetrical wargame
- I read Mojolicious Web Clients
- February 2020
- My Jan/Feb 2020 TPF grant proposal
- Ending the Fogknife support experiment
- A surprising lesson about “User-Agent” headers
- Well, I got what I wanted
- January 2020
- Fraidycat, a most unusual feedreader
- This is all I wanted to bring home to you
- Our Mathematical Universe and the eternal now
- Mixing cold medicine with news made me crushingly depressed
- December 2019
- Looking back at my 2010s
- I played a lot of Subnautica
- UMaine has deplatformed the College Republicans
- I made a now page
- I subscribed to The New York Times’s weekend print edition
- November 2019
- Thank you, Boston, and everyone
- Three more comics I’ve read (November 2019)
- I’ve been reading Nexus
- I read Going into Town
- October 2019
- BumpySkies is my masterpiece, alas
- In support of leaving the table
- UMaine, please deplatform the College Republicans
- Step back, my darling, so I can see your face
- September 2019
- Let’s rename “the 7-minute workout” to “the Klika-Jordan workout”
- Announcing Sweat, a flexible and distracting workout timer
- My 9/11 memories
- Places to (not) use your laptop in Paris
- August 2019
- Support great new text games with Colossal Fund
- Some observations about Paris
- I saw The Witch
- Sticky embodiment in VR games
- How to post replies to Fogknife articles
- How to support Fogknife
- July 2019
- Discovering News API (and releasing a code library for it)
- I read Under the Knife
- I’m looking for tech-writing work
- I read Plokhy’s Chernobyl
- June 2019
- On unconsciously ripping off Lars von Trier
- Dealing with conversational quizmasters
- I attended Layer 8 Conference 2019
- Two RSS experiments for June 2019
- May 2019
- I played Curse of the Garden Isle
- I read Ruined by Design
- Investigations into a present but silent Garfield
- Narrascope! and other stuff I’m doing this year
- I read Ways of Seeing
- I played Heaven’s Vault
- April 2019
- A Fogknife blogroll
- I read Little Teeth
- For Pi Day, I restarted @AcrosticPi
- The most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever seen
- Krugman and Pinker on the state and sustainability of human progress
- March 2019
- I joined the What Cheer Writers Club
- I bought an expensive chair and I love it
- Finding Beanworld in Providence
- February 2019
- Ending my personal use and project support of Facebook
- Adding a clarification to the vet-lethargy article
- Spoilerific thoughts on Obra Dinn
- I played Return of the Obra Dinn
- Why I don’t prescribe any preferred pronoun️s
- January 2019
- Yes, let’s begin impeachment
- Lords of Chaos and Varg Vikernes
- Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff’s horror
- Wuthering Heights: Lockwood’s reality
- December 2018
- Wuthering Heights: Cathy’s freedom
- I am reading Wuthering Heights (and works adjacent)
- I read The Death of Expertise
- I watched Rebecca (1940)
- November 2018
- I leaven my client-update calls with tiny little slideshows
- Plerd has a blog
- Introducing Brickfielder, a Seven Minute Workout timer
- I attended All Things Open 2018
- October 2018
- I’ve been playing Diablo III
- I’m a weird place with Perl (and so is Perl)
- I must become anti-Republican to remain pro-humanity
- I read Paradox
- September 2018
- August 2018
- Rejecting the “Post-web era” while embracing The Future
- I watched Existenz (after dreaming about it)
- State of the Plerd, 2018
- I visited Free Play Bar Arcade in Providence
- My oblique climate hopes
- I played Virtue’s Last Reward
- July 2018
- How open source plays interactive fiction
- I read The Book of the New Sun (and re-read From Hell)
- I played Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
- Beginning a daytime Twitter fast
- June 2018
- I attended IndieWeb Summit 2018
- Republicans are enemies of human civilization
- Miss Manners corner, June 2018
- Places to find me, June 2018
- May 2018
- Making my position plain
- A practical lesson on how small business, too, is political
- A bit of IndieWeb pushback
- I believe in the IndieWeb. It needs to believe in itself.
- April 2018
- I am playing This is the Police
- Announcing two new IndieWeb modules for Perl
- The stories of Ashrind’s stickers
- The two best computers I’ve ever owned
- March 2018
- February 2018
- We can reclaim the second amendment from the NRA
- I played The Last Guardian
- I played _Nier: Automata_
- I read The River of Consciousness
- January 2018
- Apple must drop its partnership with Fox News
- I read Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey
- More thoughts on counting blog readership
- I had a filling replaced and worried about it
- Announcing Bise, a blog-readership reporter
- December 2017
- What I shipped in 2017
- A gift for my younger self against entropy
- On time and materials, and Timing
- Two interesting confusions in Denmark
- Wherein I light a fresh candle
- November 2017
- I read Consciousness Explained
- Twitter needs more bureaucracy
- The sheriff and his newspaper, his gaze turned aside
- October 2017
- I attended All Things Open 2017
- I read American Flagg!: Hard Times
- I played Universal Paperclips
- Fogknife housekeeping: comments and logos
- I read The Weirdness, despite everything
- Constrained and meaningful role-play in Prey
- September 2017
- Hemingway’s cross-disciplinary juice
- This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy
- I played Rock of Ages 2
- A true story my friend Marc wants me to tell you
- I read Drop-Out
- I rewatched Upstream Color
- I played John’s Fire Witch
- August 2017
- Experimentally enabling comments
- I read Haunted Futures
- Plerd news, eclipse edition
- Just deserts
- I played _The Walking Dead: Michonne_
- I saw Moana
- I read The Teeth of the Comb
- My early PSVR impressions and observations
- July 2017
- The Witcher 3’s meaty little adventure games float in a bland broth
- I repaired my blood cholesterol, somehow
- I saw _Spider-Man: Homecoming_
- I spoke about BumpySkies at TPC 2017
- The U.S. as counter-lesson in preventative medicine for nations
- June 2017
- I drew a map to organize some cables, and then I organized the cables
- I read The Library at Mount Char
- A letter to my mayor and his moustache about the climate
- May 2017
- I read David Ferry’s Gilgamesh
- I watched Watership Down
- I played What Remains of Edith Finch
- I want The Perl Conference to steal !!Con’s policies
- My !!Con talk, and other notes
- April 2017
- I saw Synecdoche, New York
- My summer speaking schedule: !!Con, The Perl Conference
- Alisio: prettier, and more accessible
- Bayamo, a braided chat-stream viewer
- I read Ancillary Justice
- Dragging old IRC into my present
- When the stakes are global, I’ll flaunt my privilege
- March 2017
- February 2017
- Automatically posting Twitch broadcasts to Slack
- I read The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
- I read The Underground Railroad
- How to erase your phone quickly and reversibly
- Earning to give, near and far
- I skimmed Micrographia
- January 2017
- Black Lives Matter
- Headlines shouldn’t call the lies “lies”
- Goodbye, Ada
- This blog is now called Fogknife
- December 2016
- I read I Contain Multitudes
- Sharing Sixis, and why I stopped publishing iOS apps
- Hoping for the Obamas’ continued leadership
- I saw Arrival
- No longer calling myself a “hacker” in public
- I called my representative and senators about a thing
- Announcing BumpySkies
- November 2016
- I read the Fragments of Heraclitus
- I read _Time Travel: A History_
- I read The Noble Hustle
- I bought a couple of peace sign buttons
- October 2016
- I read Roadside Picnic and I saw Stalker
- I read 1491
- An anecdote on the different contexts of noninclusive language
- September 2016
- Promises to myself if Trump wins
- I saw “Live Justice”
- Aging advice: Learn to say “What?” selectively
- Be prepared for a Trump victory
- A eulogy
- I read: Ruins
- Coding as hiking, rather than traveling
- August 2016
- I read: Ecclesiastes
- I read: The Imitation Game
- Introducing TwitterSplit
- I read: two Warren Ellis novels
- On “🔫” and the instability of recorded emoji
- July 2016
- I saw Café Society
- Trump won’t lose on scandal
- What will I do if Trump wins?
- I will vote for Clinton, and others; please join me
- “We Can’t Walk to Boston”, digital media, 2016
- Reptiloid spambots from outer space
- June 2016
- Dead passwords: a live example
- Listen to me chat about Perl for an hour
- A great litterbox for high-peeing cats
- I saw Lost Highway
- A chat about Perl with me, June 15
- May 2016
- When visiting Denmark, start with “Hello”
- How not to Normalize Trump
- Ey, bee, see, dee
- Call Trump what he is: the hate candidate
- April 2016
- How to make greenut-butter sandwiches
- Now reading: How Not to Die
- Your passwords are already dead
- I lost another fight
- March 2016
- February 2016
- Why I feel empathy for Trump supporters
- Key memories of babyhood
- Watching what I eat: not a habit yet
- I didn’t read: Brand Luther
- Plerd has a homepage and mailing lists
- My podcast list — 2016 edition
- I read: The Brain Electric
- January 2016
- My lazy and laptop-friendly backup strategy
- An article about Plerd
- I read: Trigger Warning
- I’ve been writing about games again
- Seeking testers for a turbulence forecaster
- December 2015
- I read: Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
- Giving up on Steam Link with Mac
- “Spotlight” and the rare world of competent adults
- I read: The Peripheral
- November 2015
- Some followup on fave-stars
- I read: Cockpit Confidential
- Ratings as applied rubrics vs. tugs-of-war
- Introducing Starble
- October 2015
- I read: Invisible Cities
- Stars of many stripes
- Thinking back on “The Hacker’s Diet”
- Today, I begin watching what I eat
- My imagined endings for The Martian
- September 2015
- A few thoughts on the PBS cancer documentary
- I read: The Emperor of All Maladies
- I visited “Vacationland”
- Dark Souls as a closet of angry monkeys
- On “Lead, follow, or get out of the way”
- August 2015
- July 2015
- Why I support the use of Twitter autoblockers
- Well heck, Plerd works great on mobile
- Some followup regarding “aha! Insight”
- I read: Pullman’s Grimms’ Fairy Tales
- I read: aha! Insight
- I watched Mad Max: Fury Road
- June 2015
- I attended YAPC: :NA 2015
- Installing Oracle on a remote server with a Mac: a few notes
- I visited Salt Lake City
- My YAPC: :NA 2015 talk about blogging
- Plerd doesn’t rename source files any more
- Three hints for my fellow aviophobes
- May 2015
- My Letterman memories
- I read: Spring Chicken
- I saw Oldboy (2003) and then Oldboy (2013)
- Adding friends-locked LiveJournal feeds to a modern Mac RSS reader
- I read: Freedom Evolves
- Two pain-easing techniques for fellow phone-haters
- Further thoughts on seeing “The Shining” for the first time
- My surface interpretation of Kubrick’s “The Shining”
- Self-driving cars and the trolley problem
- April 2015
- Writing on Schopenhauer’s schedule
- On keeping a single ideas-file always handy
- “Daredevil” owns its violence, but not its torture
- I read: Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon
- About this blog
- My cat acted very sick for a while after a long vet visit
- Jmac.org called shots: spring 2015 edition
- Boosting communities through semirandom challenges
- March 2015
- A few principles for a healthy Twitter timeline
- I read: _Poorcraft_
- Email etiquette and character-set mismatches
- A new text game by me, and other recent game work
- I’ll be speaking at YAPC::NA 2015
- I read: Practices of an Agile Developer
- I read: Schild’s Ladder
- I played Ingress and then wrote about it
- I read: The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet
- I read: Open City
- February 2015
- We embrace to stop the bleeding
- An accidentally diverse reading list
- Regarding “Quiet, Wadhwa.”
- Less tweet, more meat
- Giving up on subscriber-count DIY
- On getting out of the house
- Dedicating 2015’s blogging to Derek K. Miller
- I read: The Southern Reach trilogy
- Plerd levels up
- I read: Prisoner’s Dilemma
- Very good winter loafers
- January 2015
- My Kidney Stone Journal
- The seven-minute workout: far better than it sounds
- A good example of why I do anything
- Why I downgraded from an iPhone 6
- My IFComp 2014 post-mortem
- What I built in 2014
- December 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- October 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- How not to hire me (or anyone)
- Just Make your Thing
- Mackerelmore and Mewis
- Jmac is for hire
- Spoilerific is on GitHub
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
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