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  • December 2022
    • I’ve been reading some Stoics
    • Six days of the Python
    • Rejoining the herd
  • September 2022
    • Hemlock
  • May 2022
    • Notes on Pale Fire
  • March 2022
    • My Hadean Lands links and endnotes
  • February 2022
    • Going silent for a while
  • January 2022
    • Raise your eyes to one who loves you
    • Stuff I did (and stopped doing) in 2021
    • How I fixed my controller lag
  • December 2021
    • A new audit of Perl’s documentation
    • OBS is pretty great
  • 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
    • An unsolicited thought about make-believe murder
    • I read Providence
    • I watched Scarface (1983)
  • August 2021
    • I watched Only Lovers Left Alive
    • If a game lets you pause, it should let you rewind
  • July 2021
    • Emulate crap TVs for sweet old games
    • Three tips for Paradise Killer investigators
    • I read Lolita
    • Ship that giraffe
  • June 2021
    • I got a job (redux)
    • Turn off your Slack’s join & leave messages
  • May 2021
    • Farewell to Freenode
    • On the clock
  • April 2021
    • I read Babel-17
    • Thanks for everything, Sawyer
    • Bah-d’dah-dah, don’t you miss it
  • March 2021
    • Regarding the purple dude
    • I read High-Rise
  • February 2021
    • I replaced my ancient iPhone’s battery
    • The lesson of Toombs the Enumerator
  • 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
    • Watts as balm against hard feelings
    • Two New York diary entries
    • I understand Everything better now
  • 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
    • Be prepared for a Biden victory
    • I read Deep Down Dark
    • Filling in the blanks
  • 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
    • Plerd has some mailing lists
    • How I use my public library as New Old Netflix
    • I played Layers of Fear
  • 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
    • I read The Overneath
    • How I use OmniFocus, ten years on
    • I love mission statements
  • 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
    • I saw a red thing under Aarhus
    • Introducing Alisio
    • More about last Night
    • I played Night in the Woods
  • 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
    • I messed up tonight
    • Thoughts on Radiolab’s “Debatable”
    • Trump will promise to make them pay
  • 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
    • A little jaunt through the bitwise
    • When caring for elderly parents, listen to your lawyer
  • 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
    • My minimum-viable year
    • A first post on Plerd
    • Plerd’s origins and contemporaries
  • June 2014
    • Why I won’t suffer another whiteboard grilling
  • May 2014
    • How I installed Oracle on my Mac
  • February 2014
    • A letter about a creepshotter
  • January 2014
    • Weird to think I used to sell Macs
    • A letter about ‘Culture Fit’
    • Added to GitHub: Volity, Warbler
  • October 2013
    • Thinking about passwordless web logins
  • July 2013
    • Preparing for elder-parent care with PoA
  • 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
    • An obituary
  • April 2013
    • Interrupting like Alec
  • March 2013
    • Octopress: Whys and First Thoughts
    • Putting Twitter back into Octopress

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Recent Posts

  • I’ve been reading some Stoics
  • Six days of the Python
  • Rejoining the herd
  • Hemlock
  • Notes on Pale Fire
  • My Hadean Lands links and endnotes
  • Going silent for a while
  • Raise your eyes to one who loves you
  • Stuff I did (and stopped doing) in 2021
  • How I fixed my controller lag

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  • Julia Evans
  • JWZ
  • Kicks Condor
  • Kottke.org
  • Outside Your Heaven
  • Warren Ellis LTD
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