I'm making a new game.
There's a game from 1995 called Stars! that I grew up with and still love. It's a sci-fi turn-based strategy game where you "explore, expand, exploit, exterminate" a universe filled with "stars" (planets) and other empires.
From Wikipedia:
While it received generally positive …
Today I want to tell yall about a new Android app I've been prototyping this summer called Turtle Shelf. You take a photo of books and it tells you which books you'd most like. This solves real (first world?) problems in my life:
Days after first watching Obsession (2025 film) it's still on my mind. Then driving to (and from) Ottawa and listening to dark wave witch house music I felt an unusual need to get creative like I was 20 again. So I took some notes and later wrote this horror …
Greetings, stranger. I'm not surprised to see your kind here. Many adventurers have traveled this way since the recent troubles began.
No doubt you've heard about the tragedy that befell the town of Northwood. Some say that Surtr, the Lord of Fire, walks the world again.
Since at least 2005 …
This post is a chronological tour of all the types of art assets in ChessCraft (images, sounds, music, voice) and how they were made.
A ton of different methods were used. There's 200+ chess pieces made by me in GIMP, the adventure map was hand drawn on paper then scanned …
This is how I like to get all my news and information in 2026. Writing it all down should help me sort, cut, and review my media diet. Maybe you'll find this useful too - if you like what I like anyway. This mega list is sorted best to merely good …
I've had this on my mind for years. What if you made a graph of sickness versus happiness with respect to paid sick days? Here's my first good attempt. Your graph may be different than mine because:
I'm a senior computer scientist for the government of Canada, there since 2018. Sometimes reality doesn't reflect the official messaging in government. So this page lists some of my own guidelines, truths, and tools that have most helped my career in government and guard my sanity. I hope this page …
I've often liked year-end reviews like from Wendover Productions. So here's another for ChessCraft. See also:
This year ChessCraft passed one million installs. Curiously, the page on Google Play still reports just 500,000 several months later! I guess Google doesn't care about my vanity metrics …
I'm the creator of ChessCraft and a senior computer scientist and educator for cloud and AI.
Any opinions written here are my own as a private citizen and not my employer.
I'm open to IT leadership job opportunities. I'm also available as a consultant or to provide training.
