Blog archive

8 March 2025 The garden: open for business

29 December 2024 Five books I enjoyed, Winter/Spring 2024 edition

5 September 2024 Five books I enjoyed, Summer/Autumn 2024 Edition

26 July 2024 Moving house

5 May 2024 Street numbering in Istallia

1 April 2024 For what is blog

9 March 2024 City of Winter

5 January 2024 Five books I enjoyed - Winter/Spring 2023

2 October 2023 A quick upgrade

31 July 2023 Switching to Matrix

15 July 2023 Far too many graphs about Eurovision

10 July 2023 Six books I enjoyed - Summer/Autumn 2022

23 May 2023 Idle Dreaming

23 February 2023 ChatGPT for roleplaying - what can it do?

16 January 2023 Four books I enjoyed - Winter/Spring 2022

26 December 2022 Email penpals

24 June 2022 Five books I enjoyed - Summer/Autumn 2022

5 February 2022 Gradient background images with ruby and chunky_png

24 January 2022 If at first you don't succeed...

26 December 2021 Ten books I enjoyed this year - 2021 edition

11 December 2021 Building an object model in Vue.js

10 November 2021 Automating the production of .epub files

25 October 2021 Don't be beholden to your past self

14 October 2021 Yes-no-and-or

20 September 2021 Proc-gen crosswords from scratch

15 August 2021 Revamping 1klb comments part four: submitting comments

25 April 2021 Revamping 1klb comments part three: displaying comments

17 April 2021 Weekly zine: the latest iteration

21 February 2021 Revamping 1klb comments part two: the database

8 February 2021 Revamping 1klb comments part one: an overview

2 January 2021 New year, new tools

31 December 2020 Ten books I enjoyed this year

23 December 2020 Productivy zines: one month on

17 November 2020 Keeping productive with a tiny zine

8 November 2020 Automating OmniFocus to scope every task

16 September 2020 Birds of a feather

23 August 2020 JAMStack comments (for free) with Netlify and Fauna

28 June 2020 R and colour palettes part 2 - set your primary

13 May 2020 Quantified self through little fill-in boxes

27 April 2020 Making zines with pdfjam

16 April 2020 Making a colour palette pseudo-package in R

10 April 2020 A pear tree

3 March 2020 Hacking Dream Askew for custom one-shots

7 February 2020 Stakeholder analysis and Larp faction-building

13 January 2020 Build a species

1 January 2020 Best of the Year

8 December 2019 Seasons

24 October 2019 Personal principles for story gaming

20 October 2019 Sublime Text basic plugins

12 October 2019 Serendipity

13 May 2019 Stacked area charts in d3

12 May 2019 Goblinville

22 January 2019 A small piece of work

18 August 2018 New Voices in larp: Speed dating

8 July 2018 When is an NA not an NA?

13 May 2018 Shifting to netlify

7 May 2018 The case of the missing zero index

7 April 2018 Living Dungeon World 2.0

26 March 2018 Site update

11 November 2017 Disabling disqus

11 September 2017 On D&D, and preparation

16 July 2017 New voices in Larp: Distributed deadlines

15 April 2017 Slurping content from Livejournal with ruby

9 April 2017 Infix operators I have known and loved

4 March 2017 Money

14 October 2016 How to run a con

7 October 2016 A new lick of paint

4 September 2016 Metamorphosis

8 August 2016 Omniboard 1.0

7 August 2016 Minimum viable guard

31 May 2016 Urban World - Chases

26 February 2016 MailMate bundles for fun and profit

11 February 2016 Omniboard tutorial: dates and filters

30 January 2016 OmniFocus + Kanban: the next generation

17 January 2016 Automating VoodooPad with scripts

14 November 2015 Constraints breed creativity

11 October 2015 Rubyfocus beta

23 August 2015 Books and trust

16 June 2015 Heroku + Tracks = ♥️

30 April 2015 Dugong - kind of ugly mindmapping in javascript

19 April 2015 Away from goals in LARP

24 February 2015 Web-based GTD: Putting tracks on heroku

1 February 2015 How to live on 30kg of worldly goods

12 December 2014 A quick personal update

10 December 2014 Space in role-playing

31 October 2014 Smartening up haml in nanoc

13 October 2014 Golden Pie Stories

9 October 2014 Killing controller bloat: divide and conquer

2 September 2014 CLI apps in Objective-C: tips and tricks

6 August 2014 Freemarket reference sheets

14 July 2014 Reducing my internet profile

6 July 2014 Perfectly Legal Traders

24 June 2014 Advanced Gnuplot: sizing particles

12 June 2014 Pleasing all of the people all of the time

12 June 2014 A cocoa bridge to OmniFocus

4 June 2014 Custom markup in nanoc

23 May 2014 Oh look some writing

22 May 2014 Missive update 0.3.0

21 May 2014 Streamlining rules in nanoc

16 May 2014 Back up and running

14 May 2014 Further renovation

6 May 2014 Custom keybindings in MailMate

30 April 2014 Checking running applications the right way

10 April 2014 Missive: just send email

7 April 2014 One foot in front of the other

19 March 2014 Site search with javascript

7 March 2014 Constructing languages with Markov chains

15 February 2014 Gnuplot: an introduction

11 February 2014 Anatomy of a dropped project

17 January 2014 rb-dayone update

8 January 2014 "That" vs. "Which"

6 January 2014 Let.ter, or, being beaten to the punch

31 December 2013 CaHGen: A Cards Against Humanity generator in ruby and prawn

29 December 2013 Blueshift: Some unusual things

18 December 2013 Customising NSAlert: accessory views

1 December 2013 Site upgrades

30 November 2013 Blueshift: the big picture

20 November 2013 Migrating MacRuby scripts to Objective-C

2 November 2013 Living Dungeon World

2 November 2013 Desktop background on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

25 October 2013 Assign 0.4.0 update

21 October 2013 Site update: feeds

21 October 2013 Hacking XP part two: applications

8 October 2013 Hacking XP for a more meaningful life

29 September 2013 Blueshift: Introduction

16 September 2013 Opening Sublime Text files in other applications

9 September 2013 Society of Dreamers: Randomness through mad-libs

25 August 2013 Tabbed windows, take 2

13 August 2013 Simple checklists with ruby and prawn

23 July 2013 Tabbed windows and NSToolbarItems

18 July 2013 Building a SublimeText command from scratch (and other useful bits)

9 June 2013 Assign.app v0.2.0 live

5 June 2013 Using vim in ruby

27 May 2013 Sitting

22 April 2013 Assign.app - my first Cocoa project

14 April 2013 Continuing adventures in macruby

10 April 2013 A change of scenery

17 March 2013 Slock: the occasional clock

20 February 2013 Pomodoro workflow

4 February 2013 Getting every foo whose name is bar

3 February 2013 Personal Kanban and Omnifocus - Part 2

30 January 2013 rb-appscript → MacRuby

26 December 2012 Cache.rb - the smallest feasible database

6 December 2012 Personal Kanban and Omnifocus

29 November 2012 Surviving a conference without your laptop

19 November 2012 Travel

17 November 2012 Some Sublime Text key combos

4 November 2012 Password generation

9 October 2012 Moving with regular expressions - `mvr`

27 September 2012 Treading water

12 September 2012 Random NPC generation in Trunk Notes

5 September 2012 Programming in Lua for Trunk Notes

14 August 2012 rb-dayone

28 July 2012 rbenv and GeekTool

3 July 2012 Using TextMate with rbenv

30 June 2012 My gaming workflow

16 June 2012 Graveyard shift

7 June 2012 GTD: Creative Workflows

5 June 2012 Getting to grips with KVO

20 May 2012 Four things I wish I knew about Objective-C six months ago (and three things I'm sure in six months I will wish I knew now)

6 May 2012 Rubyish hashes

6 May 2012 OmniFocus isn't your manager

29 April 2012 Journey

22 April 2012 A glyph generator for Journey

15 April 2012 High-priority projects in Omnifocus

10 April 2012 So...