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November Musings

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:04:59 +0100

It’s the end of November, and the first snow of the season reminds me another year is almost at its end. Since I haven’t written anything here in a while, let’s try something different, this post is a barely organized collection of thoughts.

BlueSky Stats in Posts

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:25:24 +0200

I made a small update to my blog today that I am super happy with! Blog posts will now show stats from Bluesky at the bottom. I have gone back through all the recent posts starting with the Staveil Postmortem and made sure those posts are linked to Bluesky.

Keeping sanity online

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:25 +0200

I want to preface this by noting that this isn’t a guide on “how to be more productive”. I don’t believe people need to be productive all their waking hours. These strategies and tools might not work for you but they helped me have more fun with games, be less angry as much about stuff that doesn’t matter and in general have a better time online.

Starveil is now open source

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:54:58 +0200

Starveil, the sci-fi fantasy online multiplayer RPG I worked on with Sukkoy is now open source. Code is licensed under the MIT license while assets are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The repository can be found here.

Blog update: New theme, relicensing content

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:42:38 +0200

I want to start writing here a lot more as I have thoughts™ and I want to share them. To that end, there have been some changes made on this blog, yet again.

🏴‍☠️ Piratemoji: A Twemoji-style pirate emoji pack

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0200

TL:DR: I released a Pirate themed emoji pack, you can download it on GitHub.

Lifting the Veil: Starveil Postmortem

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0200

It’s been two years since I have started a very ambitious project with my friend, Sukkoy. We have set out to make an online game, a little MMORPG, just to see if we could. That project has turned into Starveil.

Steam Deck: Is the 'Year of Linux on Desktop' upon us?

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:00:00 +0200

For a while now, I’ve had some thoughts on the Steam Deck and what it means for Linux. After some discussions about it in various places, I thought it’s finally time to put the thoughts down on (digital) paper.

Building the server infrastructure for an indie MMORPG

Tue, 25 May 2021 11:44:32 +0200

Isleward, the open-source MMORPG I am working on with @bigbadwofl, is growing and with it grow the server hardware demands. This post describes the infrastructure I’ve put in place for our indie MMORPG as of the v0.9.0 release in mid-May.

New year, new theme, new name

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 12:00:00 +0200

Well, sort of. Decided to refresh the look and the name of the blog a bit and make it more tech aligned, since that’s what the posts are mostly about anyway.

Today in WoW - iOS Scriptable.app Widget

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:00:00 +0200

It’s December 2020 and the last post on this blog was in February 2019, I am clearly bad at this whole blog thing. But I made a thing and I want to tell you about it.

Deploying Isleward 2: The Dockering

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:05:31 +0100

Isleward’s infrastructure has changed. I wrote a new post about it which you can read here.

Your Game Is Not a Roguelike

Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:34:29 +0200

I have an issue with the roguelike (and to an extent roguelike-like and roguelite) genre. More specifically, I have an issue with the name of the genre.

Deploying Isleward

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:42:44 +0200

Isleward’s infrastructure has changed. I wrote a new post about it which you can read here.

Init 6 (Reboot)

Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:07:44 +0200

Yes, I borrowed the title from Mr. Robot.
init 6 basically tells the system to reboot and that’s what this is, a reboot of my blog.