Dec
05
Things I believe about love/dating
3 min read
Joe Cecil
May
30
Things I learned calling shm_open() on a Mac
1 min read
Apr
20
How I got Acme to renew my Ghost blog's SSL cert
1 min read
Apr
19
Lessons learned from battling Godot 3 for twelve hours
3 min read
Apr
19
Beware map indexing in C++
1 min read
Apr
06
Monthly writing reviews are plenty
1 min read
Mar
31
How I interpret online apartment reviews
3 min read
Mar
30
Venerable voracious curiosity
2 min read
Jan
27
All structured out?
2 min read
Jan
26
Examples of introspection in third-person limited perspective
7 min read
Jan
20
How to more effectively throw rocks at your characters (in prose fiction)
6 min read
Jan
12
Things I've learned about Across the Obelisk at 14 hours
5 min read
Dec
27
Competition in board games vs. video games
3 min read
Dec
26
The intersection problem
2 min read
Dec
23
Softening the ground for fitness
2 min read
Dec
22
Difficulty settings for doing weird things
1 min read
Dec
20
Things I found and loved this year
2 min read
Dec
18
Ingurgitate
1 min read
Dec
17
Quantity matters in a dream list
1 min read
Dec
16
Goal failure modes
5 min read
Dec
15
Long posts
1 min read
Dec
14
Knowledge hoarding: "I might need to know that someday"
1 min read
Dec
13
Challenging vs. threatening?
2 min read
Dec
12
An example of a non-obvious lag measure
2 min read
Dec
10
To solve review avoidance, declare review amnesty?
1 min read
Dec
09
Poorly-written characters are not a problem (in a first draft)
1 min read
Dec
08
Sounds I don't need to know, but want to
1 min read
Dec
07
Eval game rule 10
1 min read
Dec
06
How to read the IPA vowel chart
2 min read
Dec
05
A run of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
1 min read
Dec
04
Separate the story outline from the story ideas, notes?
1 min read
Dec
03
My piece-by-piece scenes rarely work, but that's okay, and planning might help
4 min read
Dec
02
Distinguish conversation between stories about tropes from conversation about ideas
4 min read
Dec
01
Bouncing off books
1 min read
Nov
30
Important names in Too Like the Lightning
6 min read
Nov
29
A pre-reveal
1 min read
Nov
28
Overly detailed summaries are worse than none
1 min read
Nov
27
The hardest part of timeboxing is cutting
1 min read
Nov
26
What do I like about fantasy fiction? Maybe the struggle with received wisdom
2 min read
Nov
25
Disagreements in Too Like the Lightning function as prompts for the reader
4 min read
Nov
24
TTRPG system rulebooks scale poorly for learning
2 min read
Nov
23
"Agile worldbuilding" is great for scoping
1 min read
Nov
22
Scoping worldbuilding
3 min read
Nov
21
Some inconsistencies between the cover of Deserter and the story
1 min read
Nov
20
What's going on with "The Reanimator's Sword"?
2 min read
Nov
19
Counting more extreme orders
3 min read
Nov
19
In a mystery, false leads don't have to be developed or specifically contradicted
1 min read
Nov
18
Other kinds of -anthropy
2 min read
Nov
16
Book Review: Big Magic
2 min read
Nov
14
Deciphering manga panel order via "Where the Sandman Lives"
1 min read