v buckenham

2025-01-03 •

The text provides a step-by-step guide on how to rest, emphasizing the importance of doing nothing and not exerting oneself physically, mentally, or emotionally. It encourages the reader to set aside time for rest and not to worry...

2024-03-06 •

Downpour is a game creation tool developed by the author after leaving Niantic. It aims to make making an interactive game-like thing quicker and easier than any other. The tool allows users to make choices, write text, use pictur...

2024-02-16 •

The text announces the launch of the game making app Downpour on March 6th, 2024. It describes the app as a tool for making videogames, websites, and other hypertext-y things, with a platform for hosting the games. The author also...

2023-05-11 •

The text is a talk given at the Pervasive Media Studio about how people used to find information before the internet, and how the internet has changed the way people find information. It also discusses the history of GameFAQs and ...

2022-10-28 •

Elon Musk recently bought Twitter for more than it is worth, and the future of the company is uncertain. Musk financed the purchase with debt, which means Twitter now has to pay around a billion dollars a year in interest. The pur...

2022-08-02 •

The text introduces a new tool for generating epicycles, which are patterns similar to those made by a Spirograph. It explains the historical context of epicycles and how they were used to describe the motion of planets. The tool ...

2022-04-30 •

The text discusses the recent increase in Mastodon accounts due to the news of Twitter being sold to Elon Musk. It explains the content warning system and its use in practice, such as for spoiler warnings, talking about heavy or b...

2022-04-25 •

The text introduces a new social network for frogs called Frog Chorus, where users can interact by ribbiting. The idea and illustrations came from Viviane Schwarz, while the coding and design were done by the author. The motivatio...

2022-04-05 •

The text discusses the idea of collective backups using Syncthing, an open source, peer to peer, encrypted program, as an alternative to paying a company for cloud storage. It explains how setting up Syncthing for backups with fri...

2022-03-30 •

The author announces a new project called Downpour, a game making tool for phones. The goal is to make game creation accessible to anyone without prior knowledge and without needing a computer. The project was inspired by the tran...

2022-03-23 •

The author updates CBDQ, a service that tweets every two hours. They migrated CBDQ to a new server, replaced the old SVG rendering solution, and fixed bugs. They also upgraded all the node dependencies and fixed the admin panel to...

2022-03-22 •

The text is a rough transcript of a talk given at GDC 2022 about chronic illness and how to support employees with chronic illnesses. The speaker shares their personal experience with chronic fatigue syndrome and postural orthosta...

2022-02-18 •

The author has developed a new webpage called r_g_b.html, which uses the technique of 'iterative convolution' to create colorful patterns. The webpage runs on the graphics card and is interactive, responding to mouse position and ...

2022-02-07 •

The author is setting up Open Office Hours to chat with people online due to the pandemic making it hard to see people in person. They are open to discussing various topics and are encouraging people to reach out.

2020-03-01 •

The author discusses the concept of chorded input schemes, inspired by LSDJ, a Gameboy music software. Chording is a means of inputting commands to software by holding down multiple buttons at once. The author explains the benefit...

2019-05-24 •

The author describes their experience of collecting the first sentence for all the entries for 'apple' in all the wikia.com wikis and using it to create a zine using a zine-making tool. They also provide supplementary info for pri...

2019-01-01 •

The text is a list of 20 games the author played or did not play in 2018, with brief descriptions and personal reflections on each game.

2018-04-17 •

The author reminisces about a golf game called The Greens that they played as a child, and how it was part of a Christmas-themed shareware CD. They describe the game's details and how it was built into the standard Windows UI. The...

2018-02-13 •

The text is a manifesto that emphasizes the importance of creative acts in changing culture and the responsibility of the individual to understand the impact of their actions. It encourages people to make a change in the cultures ...

2018-02-05 •

The text discusses the videogame 'Friend Simulator' and its unique approach to creating a space free from judgement and allowing boredom to dominate the videogame space. It compares the game to 'How Do You Do It?' and highlights t...