Single-player games
Between the many and large changes the advent of the computer wrought in the world, one odd little dent it made was an explosion of……
Timelines
UIs that display content in chronological order in a vertical list seem to be undecided on whether ‘now’ is at the top or the bottom.…
Cooperative games
As part of the board game renaissance that’s occurring right now, there has been huge interest in cooperative games. BoardGameGeek lists……
Tolkien
I was raised on Tolkien. The Hobbit is the first book I remember reading. I learned Quenya and Sindarin and Dwarvish runes and doodled them……
Urban design and the perpetually imperfect
When a designer sits at their CAD software or Wacom tablet to work on a tool or a website or a product, they begin with a blank slate. What……
Trigger failure
I forgot to write yesterday morning, then sort of left it to the afternoon, then got distracted playing Minecraft in the evening. I worked……
Writing prompts
One of the disadvantages for me of writing in the morning is that I don’t usually have one clear idea of what I want to write about. In the……
Is my box owned?
I operate a Linux machine connected to the internet. I haven’t upgraded it recently; almost certainly one or more of the software packages……