Notebook
Things I learned calling shm_open() on a Mac
How I got Acme to renew my Ghost blog's SSL cert
Lessons learned from battling Godot 3 for twelve hours
Beware map indexing in C++
Monthly writing reviews are plenty
How I interpret online apartment reviews
Venerable voracious curiosity
All structured out?
Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective
How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)
Things I've learned about Across the Obelisk at 14 hours
Competition in board games vs. video games
The intersection problem
Softening the ground for fitness
Difficulty settings for doing weird things
Things I found and loved this year
Ingurgitate
Quantity matters in a dream list
Goal failure modes
Long posts
Knowledge hoarding: "I might need to know that someday"
Challenging vs. threatening?
An example of a non-obvious lag measure
To solve review avoidance, declare review amnesty?
Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)
Sounds I don't need to know, but want to
Eval game rule 10
How to read the IPA vowel chart
A run of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Separate the story outline from the story ideas, notes?
My piece-by-piece scenes rarely work, but that's okay, and planning might help
Distinguish conversation between stories about tropes from conversation about ideas
Bouncing off books
Important names in Too Like the Lightning
A pre-reveal
Overly detailed summaries are worse than none
The hardest part of timeboxing is cutting
What do I like about fantasy fiction? Maybe the struggle with received wisdom
Disagreements in Too Like the Lightning function as prompts for the reader
TTRPG system rulebooks scale poorly for learning
"Agile worldbuilding" is great for scoping
Scoping worldbuilding
Some inconsistencies between the cover of Deserter and the story
What's going on with "The Reanimator's Sword"?
Counting more extreme orders
In a mystery, false leads don't have to be developed or specifically contradicted
Other kinds of -anthropy
Book Review: Big Magic
Deciphering manga panel order via "Where the Sandman Lives"
"Where the Sandman Lives"