Degox – Taking (Back?) my Internet Privacy and Presence

For as long as I’ve used email, someone else has provided it to me for “free”. Detoxing in January is a staple, so why not extend that to weening off Google and call it a degox. This was supposed to be a short post about my experience migrating to Fastmail. However, it went sideways and …

Dicey Dungeons is a delightful duende

Dicey Dungeons is a roguelike where you roll dice in dungeons. The premise is a game show but it reminds me more of The Running Man than Wheel of Fortune. This game has simple mechanics on the surface but steadily grows in complexity and difficulty; each successful run is meted with a failed spin of …

2020 gaming in 200 words a week

This blog has been a little quiet in 2019. After a days work it can be hard to think of something worth blogging that isn’t tied to my working day, and without inspiration it becomes difficult to muster up the energy to write anything. So I’ve decided to create a framework for blogging: a single …

Web protocols ate my hosting

New Year, same old blog. A new style, some broken links and some fixed-broken links. Here’s to yet another WordPress-based blog! Now for some background. This website has been through a small number of hosts. It started off being hosted on a wordpress.com subdomain. I then migrated it over to a cheapo shared hosting solution, …

SpotifyStatusApplet v1.3 Beta 1

FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. This page is provided for archive purposes and the download has been removed. More information is available on the Project Page. A small update to SpotifyStatusApplet has been released as a beta. This version fixes a critical issue with newer versions of …

SpotifyStatusApplet v1.2 Beta

FYI: SpotifyStatusApplet was broken by a Spotify API change made in Q3 2018. This page is provided for archive purposes and the download has been removed. More information is available on the Project Page. A small update to SpotifyStatusApplet has been released as a beta. This version adds the ability to toggle on/off the Field …

Ode to IBM Rational Rhapsody

Ode to Rhapsody to the tune of “Comme d’habitude” / “My Way” And now,  the end is here And so I face, the final codegenMy friend, I’ll say it clearI state my Use Case, I’ll draw a LifelineI’ve declared a class that’s pureI created each and every dependencyAnd more, much more than this, I did …