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 […]
Author Archives: LucasPardue
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 […]
Beer Catalog
Since I moved to London I drank a lot of beer. It is easy to lose track of: What I’ve tried When I’ve tried it and would I drink it again In order to keep a better track of these beers I have created a beer catalog page capturing what I deem to be the […]
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 […]
Antimatter Poster
During university I produced a poster on the topic of Antimatter as part of a Communicating Science module. I put this up on the web in 2007 and years on, I am seeing traffic to the site driven by a link contained in a Rutgers assignment concerning Information Design. Unfortunately, across the years the poster […]
Software Metrics and Craftsmanship
Software Development Metrics are a notoriously difficult area, there exists a large allure of quantitative measurements that can be condensed into a top-level dashboard showing progress, plan alignment, effort , costs and so on. However, the unfortunate reality is that the collection and analysis of Software Development Metrics is difficult for a number of factors […]
UI Navigation – Android
Up vs. Back or in other terms hierarchy vs. chronology is one of the User Experience aspects touched upon in my post UML: Modelling User Interfaces Part 1 – Hierarchy and Navigation. The Android methodology for UI navigation has received some attention over the years and the largest change to date was brought in with […]