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2021

2021-11-23 14 years of game dev
2021-11-18 Hosting
2021-10-20 Making a series outline
2021-10-17 Pls
2021-10-16 The second book is harder
2021-10-13 Social media break
2021-10-12 Scrape, Scrape
2021-10-08 Testing external API calls in Go
2021-10-03 ThinkPad P14s AMD First Impressions
2021-09-10 The quest for a humidifier
2021-03-20 Spring and Rigel
2021-01-23 Litter Robot 3 Review
2021-01-17 Time blocking
2021-01-07 Investing in sustainable food
2021-01-05 Happy-ish New Year

2020

2020-07-15 ALIFE 2020 - Robot Cancer
2020-07-14 ALIFE 2020 - Soft alife with SPLAT and Ulam
2020-04-10 Social distancing ramblings
2020-02-17 IBM lecture - Introduction to quantum computers and quantum computer programming
2020-01-18 2019 Travels

2019

2019-07-07 Docker Containers for testing
2019-06-27 SnailLife Genome Lab
2019-03-19 State of the Liza - 2019
2019-02-10 Happy New Year

2018

2018-10-22 Fun PresentationFramework side-effect of bad equality
2018-09-22 A first stab at gene expression
2018-09-16 Brainstorming the SnailLife gene system
2018-09-09 Building a snail one organ at a time
2018-08-25 Are YOU experiencing shady output from your Go debugger? Try these things!
2018-08-19 Roee: Self Modifying Go Simulation Experiment - Part 2
2018-08-19 Roee: Self Modifying Go Simulation Experiment - Part 1
2018-08-15 Quick and Dirty Function Timing in Go
2018-08-11 Rubber Ducky Moments: 'Completely unrelated []interface{}!!!'
2018-08-09 Sleep
2018-07-25 Sunset and sunrise on the Tor
2018-07-22 First day in Glastonbury - visiting Tor and Chalice Well
2018-07-20 IJCAI Session Notes: Rebel Agents
2018-07-16 IJCAI Session Notes: Learning Common Sense
2018-07-15 IJCAI Session Notes: Verifying Agent Based Autonomous Systems
2018-05-06 go-sql-driver and MySQL 8
2018-03-28 Input Club K-Type and /dev/tty impressions
2018-03-24 Some SnailLife Go client testing notes
2018-02-18 Testing SnailLife Go repositories
2018-02-18 Excluding mocks from coverage reports
2018-02-11 Testing SnailLife Go on Go 1.10
2018-01-15 GitLab CI for SnailLife Go

2017

2017-10-23 Running tests and getting coverage reports on server deployment in SnailLife
2017-09-07 ECAL session notes: Open-Ended Simulations
2017-09-06 ECAL session notes: Digital Evolution
2017-09-05 ECAL session notes: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Artificial Life
2017-09-04 Day 1 of ECAL 2017 - ISAL Summer School
2017-08-05 Server and client for SnailLife Go
2017-07-28 Go auth (and other) progress
2017-07-28 Playing with authentication in Go
2017-07-20 Trying Out Go
2017-05-23 Talk on Big Data Tools and Architectures at Foo Cafe
2017-05-20 State of the Snail - Debugging Hell
2017-01-28 Hello, TensorFlow

2016

2016-08-06 Having a fish tank is supposed to be about stress relief
2016-02-06 Snaily Updates: BrainHub + Runners, SnailLife Logo
2016-01-24 BrainHub and BrainRunner - finally over the hump

2015

2015-12-21 The brain scope is growing: BrainHub, BrainRunners, Brains
2015-11-10 Snaily Updates, Nov 10 - Family trees and inbreeding coefficient
2015-11-09 Snaily Updates - Bug fixing and cleaning out old stuff
2015-10-30 My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
2015-10-01 Snail organs, immunity, and ageing
2015-09-24 Wild snails around the world
2015-09-18 More location and temperature stuff
2015-09-16 Bringing snail stables down to Earth
2015-09-05 Snail stable breeding brands
2015-08-30 I have become Crazy Cat Lady, the Buyer of Cat Strollers
2015-08-03 Pee-training Rigel
2015-08-02 Laravel log file backups to S3
2015-07-25 SnailLife messaging system
2015-07-01 Update on Rigel and response from DjurAkuten
2015-06-29 Snaily updates
2015-05-27 Items
2015-05-26 Images for combined substrate
2015-05-05 Migrating to Laravel 5
2015-04-04 Thinking through substrate
2015-04-02 Jar substrate is a go
2015-04-02 Tackling Gastropoda's memory usage - Round One
2015-03-18 The month from Hell
2015-02-22 On your mark, get set, crawl!
2015-02-21 Rethinking racing. Also cool snail art!
2015-02-16 Snail brain semi-stable and reviewing visual traits set during breeding
2015-02-13 From Amazon Web Services to Digital Ocean
2015-01-23 It's not so bad. We have snail babies, after all
2015-01-15 Snail gym vs training jar

2014

2014-12-31 The journey continues - from Elastic Beanstalk to CodeDeploy
2014-12-27 Personality
2014-12-25 State of the Snail, 2014
2014-12-21 Deploying Gastropoda to Amazon Web Services - Never Forget
2014-12-11 Claustrophobia and eggicide
2014-12-09 Scheduled food delivery, arousal suppressant, and brain woes
2014-11-19 No more starving snails
2014-11-08 Detangling snail actions. Also a cat
2014-10-20 Hiking, Beyond Earth, and Gastropoda update
2014-10-14 The ongoing saga of snail mating decisions
2014-10-11 Went to my first Laravel Meetup
2014-10-09 Event queues
2014-09-28 The snails are eating again
2014-09-26 Websocketing it up for snail movement
2014-09-19 Braaaaaainsss
2014-09-13 And we're back
2014-08-11 Pathfinder: two heroes are born
2014-08-08 Wolfling runs
2014-08-05 On snail eggs
2014-07-30 New snail shell patterns
2014-07-29 Laravel migration done
2014-07-26 A battle with racing
2014-07-24 Setting up an AWS EC2 instance for Gastropoda
2014-07-22 Summer holidays and Amsterdam
2014-07-15 Custom validators in Laravel
2014-07-13 Experimenting with Laravel
2014-07-09 The beginnings of a currency
2014-07-05 To the Node and back
2014-06-18 A move and a quick Gastropoda update
2014-06-14 The day of the lettuce leaf
2014-06-11 Taking it easy on the snailing with some lazy layout work
2014-06-10 Recording snail history logs
2014-06-08 Thoughts on @HobbyGameDev's post on starting simple
2014-06-07 Snail metabolic rates and caloric needs
2014-06-06 My 3 favorite Södermalm cafes to work in
2014-06-05 Gastropoda - racing progress
2014-06-03 A cycling adventure
2014-05-29 It's summer!
2014-05-15 Baby snails!
2014-05-11 Ripping apart Gastropoda
2014-05-04 Gastropoda, the name
2014-04-30 Here jars, there jars, everywhere jars jars
2014-04-26 Collecting wild snails
2014-04-25 Porting Game of Snails to PHP
2014-04-12 Stockholm and robot parts
2014-04-05 San Francisco and other updates
2014-02-08 An icy walk of creepitude
2014-01-26 Global Game Jam 2014 in Stockholm (#GGJ14/#GGJSthlm)
2014-01-09 A slow start to 2014
2014-01-02 The scenic route

2013

2013-12-28 Bromptoning it up
2013-12-28 Move to S3 and Octopress. Oh and #1GAM
2013-12-21 One Game a Month (#1GAM) Done!
2013-10-13 First foray into Unity
2013-08-31 Steven Enns and "Craftsmanship"
2013-08-23 Bellmanstafetten relay race - didn't die!
2013-08-18 How not to run Midnattsloppet
2013-08-18 Trying out the Rearth Ringke Fusion Nexus 4 case
2013-07-24 Porting Interdiction to Android with CocoonJS - overcoming mouse position offset problem
2013-07-15 Some Toaster AI improvements
2013-07-14 Slowly improving Toaster AI for #1GAM
2013-07-09 We're more than halfway through the #1GAM year! What I've made so far.
2013-06-29 June #1GAM game and board game AI
2013-05-26 Game of Snails in all its barely-playable glory
2013-05-23 A traumatic [read: wimpy] experience
2013-05-19 A Game of Snails and Heroku
2013-05-15 Revelation: I don't actually want to run a half marathon...
2013-05-08 GUI - I hate this part.
2013-05-05 A weekend of train-ventures, dodgy restaurants, and the most amazing weather in the universe.
2013-05-03 A Game of Snails - Breeding system
2013-05-02 A Game of Snails - feature list
2013-05-01 Snails, running, and Sweden
2013-04-25 Sweden weather is improving so I'm ditching the treadmill. It hurts.
2013-04-22 Building in ImpactJS multiplayer is like a jelly wrestling contest
2013-04-07 Deploying games to the Chrome Web Store seems stupidly easy
2013-03-30 iOS to Android - Nexus 4
2013-03-22 A first try at object pooling
2013-03-20 Random thoughts on JavaScript performance, garbage collection, and object pooling
2013-03-11 Running, unfortunate sprites, and GDC sessions
2013-03-05 Creating randomized eye movement in ImpactJS
2013-02-28 February #1GAM Game - My Mind Is Going
2013-02-27 More tea...Silver Needle!
2013-02-24 A potentially unwise newfound interest in tea.
2013-02-01 Growing JavaScript trees for #1GAM

2012

2012-12-30 Still drawing... #onegameamonth
2012-12-26 One Game a Month - Animatch progress
2012-12-23 One Game a Month
2012-11-14 Sweden update - snow and Finland and Russian food and stuff!
2012-10-19 Splitting text into lines according to maximum width + vertical text scroll in JavaScript and HTML5
2012-10-17 Selecting from multiple ship/character options before each level (more UI stuff)
2012-10-10 How I ended up handling GUI elements in ImpactJS
2012-10-08 Modified screen shaker and camera follow in ImpactJS
2012-10-05 Saving game state with HTML5 localStorage and JSON - a rough working draft
2012-10-02 Why I like JavaScript
2012-09-29 Dabbling in UI
2012-09-15 So long and thanks for all the fish.
2012-09-04 Js13kGames entry finally submitted. Now I can think about something else, right? RIGHT?
2012-09-02 KROOG - @Js13kGames entry
2012-08-21 I made a Twitter logo in HTML5. It's like the ugly brother of the actual Twitter logo
2012-08-11 New challenge: Keeping track of my own code
2012-08-09 Curved laser beams with HTML5 canvas quadraticCurveTo() method
2012-08-09 Making a laser beam entity in ImpactJS using HTML5 canvas stroke()
2012-08-05 I relearned basic trig today...kind of...sort of...Let's just say my thing works and leave it at that.
2012-07-29 Too many tiny functions?
2012-07-29 Why I can't not optimize.
2012-07-27 Getting around the HTML5 canvas ctx.fillText line break limitation
2012-07-16 Made a rough Space Invaders clone. Annoyed at Chromium and its HTML5 audio bug.
2012-07-08 Today was not as productive as it should've been - Multitouch and stuff
2012-07-06 That thing where I said I was going to take my mind off of coding for a while? It didn't work.
2012-07-05 This post is not going to talk about how to do anything. But it's still about (iOS)Impact
2012-07-04 Directional swipe and double-click in ImpactJS
2012-07-02 How much impact do ImpactJS timers have on performance? Plus implementing player speed boosts.
2012-06-30 Swapping out animation sheets on state change in ImpactJS
2012-06-28 Refining on-the-fly pit spawning in Impact
2012-06-26 Procedural levels continued: randomized pits and performance enhancements
2012-06-26 Experimenting with procedurally generated levels in ImpactJS
2012-06-17 Making a player grow as they eat stuff in ImpactJS
2012-06-06 My 5 favorite opening lines from books
2012-05-23 I obviously have a thing for compound words and fire
2012-05-21 I miss Alabama sometimes. Here are things that remind me of it.
2012-05-17 Can we just stop being unappreciative jerks please?
2012-05-15 iiNet TopGeek 2.0, Hippo Creek, & Diablo 3
2012-05-12 The zombification of Adam Green
2012-05-11 Affecting the world and other things smelling up our fridge - by Joseph Hewitt
2012-05-07 A belated post about the first Guild Wars 2 Beta Weekend Event / @GuildWars2
2012-05-02 Chat bot nostalgia - old conversation transcripts
2012-04-26 Box2D, I have conquered you!!! (sort of)
2012-04-24 From iOS to Windows Phone - I got a Nokia Lumia 800
2012-04-19 What I should have read a few years ago.
2012-04-12 Pre-ordering Guild Wars 2 Collector's Edition from EB Games
2012-04-09 Box2D, you are torture.
2012-04-04 Fun per genre - MMORPGs
2012-04-03 Documentation, placeholder audio, and object interaction
2012-04-03 I feel so rested right now it's amazing.
2012-04-01 Entity states, animations, and other random stuff
2012-04-01 Work, work
2012-03-31 1pm breakfast after a 4am night - a JavaScript hangover
2012-03-30 JavaScript lighting making slow progress
2012-03-28 Working on JavaScript lighting
2012-03-25 Entity spawning diagrams, dynamic attributes, and The Making of Prince of Persia
2012-03-22 I wish I could remember this dream
2012-03-21 JavaScript learning review
2012-03-12 Gwen: Streamlining adjacency settings, performance, notifications, allegiance, etc
2012-02-29 Sniffling and coding and level design (yes, again)
2012-02-29 Heads up: going away. Not dead.
2012-02-28 Levels and relaxed features
2012-02-27 Today was a bug fixing and facepalming kind of day
2012-02-27 Top down perspective vs isometric projection/2.5D
2012-02-26 Level design, entity spawning, and art.
2012-02-25 The long road to adjacency.
2012-02-25 Getting my head around shallow vs deep copy
2012-02-23 Path follow mostly working - on to detecting adjacent nodes
2012-02-23 On luck and having awesome friends.
2012-02-23 ARRAYCEPTION
2012-02-21 Git branching, naming conventions, global variables, and Mr. Carboon...
2012-02-19 An update on Gwen - we have path follow.
2012-02-17 Now you don't have to email me to ask me stuff. So don't.
2012-02-16 Hello, Gwen.
2012-02-15 I slept! And next.
2012-02-08 Registered for #AltDevConf 2012
2012-02-08 Things on napkins.
2012-02-02 I'm going to San Francisco for GDC 2012
2012-01-25 Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate Silent - I am now a full mechanical keyboard convert.
2012-01-22 GenghisCon 2012
2012-01-20 Trent Reznor started this rant.
2012-01-04 What I did last year

2011

2011-12-29 Just some first thoughts on Star Wars: The Old Republic/SWTOR
2011-12-09 .
2011-11-29 Linear vs nonlinear games
2011-11-27 Finished Battlefield 3 single player campaign
2011-11-26 Finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution and The Missing Link DLC
2011-11-24 Building Adam.
2011-11-22 2 weeks with the Razer BlackWidow mechanical keyboard: review/impressions
2011-11-15 Should we be gamifying our lives?
2011-11-13 What an awesome weekend. New keyboard and mouse, Fremantle, and a great run.
2011-11-02 In Time
2011-10-30 Eyeglasses and avoiding regression after LASIK
2011-10-29 Discovr Music - not really the app for me
2011-10-27 What annoyed me about Real Steel - and the one thing I really really liked.
2011-10-20 My mouse went to mouse heaven, so I got Microsoft's Arc Touch mouse. First impressions.
2011-10-17 Photos from EB Expo 2011
2011-10-13 I got to Brisbane in one piece!
2011-10-10 Redesigns and injuries go hand in hand
2011-10-07 I'm going to EB Expo 2011 - with a media pass thanks to iiNet
2011-09-25 Hello, MacBook Air. Where have you been all my life?
2011-09-18 Pistol shooting session at Midland Indoor Shooting Range!
2011-09-17 My favorite science fiction movies
2011-09-16 ifttt: if this then that. Automate your social media task list.
2011-09-09 Weird website contests, RPGs, and MMO gold-digging = my childhood
2011-09-06 Cryonics and mind transfer
2011-09-04 Favorite search terms - Deus Ex edition
2011-08-30 Deus Ex: Human Revolution - I've never been so into an FPS
2011-08-27 Razer Blade gaming laptop - pleeeeeease come out in time for Guild Wars 2
2011-08-22 HP TouchPad obtained
2011-08-20 The Project Dust/From Dust trailer reminds me of something
2011-08-19 Things I am most looking forward to this year
2011-08-15 Boyfriend draws me on the Wacom Intuos4
2011-08-10 Installing Windows 7 through Boot Camp with no Optical Drive on a Mac Mini
2011-08-05 I fail at life and everything - installing my new Wacom Intuos4
2011-07-22 The Mac App Store is fricking awesome. And new Mac Mini!
2011-07-08 No, I don't want a fracking coupon.
2011-07-07 Panasonic Insider Crew Home
2011-06-29 Google+ - the next social networking hit or a messy mashup?
2011-06-28 The Quantum Thief. Way over my head, going onto my re-read list.
2011-06-24 LulzSec, Anonymous, and Hacktivism
2011-06-17 X-Men: First Class was AWESOME...though that ending
2011-06-07 Reading The Quantum Thief
2011-05-28 Follow-up on my What's Up Pitches talk
2011-05-25 Source Code - flawed, but good...and disturbing
2011-05-22 2011 HBF Run for a Reason completed!
2011-05-19 Sony does it again - password reset URL exploit
2011-05-14 Visiting Melbourne
2011-05-12 2011 Panasonic Home Entertainment Launch in Melbourne
2011-05-07 Yay new monitor! BenQ GL2440 24" LED
2011-05-05 Help me save Shaun from diabetes
2011-05-04 Daisyworld
2011-05-02 Stranger in a Strange Land
2011-04-29 I'm going to Melbourne! Panasonic Insider Crew
2011-04-21 More hotlinking, please
2011-04-18 Runkeeper LIVE - great runner safety feature potential
2011-04-15 I just moved to NAB. Crap.
2011-04-10 iiNet TopGeek Final
2011-03-25 I'm lucky - I have help. #snails
2011-03-22 How does one draw an endearing snail?
2011-03-20 Gypsy Tapas House - almost perfect, but...
2011-03-20 The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson - still sinking in.
2011-03-18 Oh hai there, Kindle
2011-03-17 iiNet TopGeek - Game Over (for me)
2011-03-16 I have just been reminded how much our mailbox sucks.
2011-03-14 An overdue post about RIFT
2011-03-10 World War Z by Max Brooks = Apocalyptic Goodness
2011-03-06 Michael Buble in Swan Valley was AMAZING
2011-03-04 Stop Cancelling TV Series
2011-02-28 Toaster - My iiNet TopGeek Challenge 2 Entry
2011-02-17 Cookie-cutter MMO questing systems.
2011-02-17 MAXIMUM DOG - Canine Zombie Protection Suit
2011-02-10 Finally finished Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
2011-01-31 Photoshop challenge - Make an HTC 7 Mozart photo look good!
2011-01-31 My gaming rut and mobile games
2011-01-28 I made it into TopGeek Top 20 :)
2011-01-20 GenghisCon 2011 - Awesomeness!
2011-01-11 I watched Buried last night
2011-01-10 Claiming belief vs knowledge
2011-01-05 My most memorable reads

2010

2010-12-31 Dinner at The Atrium at Burswood - it sucked.
2010-12-22 How to buy a US-only Kindle eBook in Australia
2010-12-18 Watched Tron: Legacy
2010-12-16 D&D and Speed Fighting
2010-12-08 Top Geek...and I cancelled my Vodafone plan
2010-12-05 Busy weekend - Atrium at Burswood, D&D, and Jarrahdale Hike
2010-11-24 Panasonic Insider Crew keeps telling me I'm special. Must be true.
2010-11-22 Proclamation of undying love - vividwireless
2010-11-19 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
2010-11-16 What NASA's big announcement SHOULD have been
2010-11-15 Removing blemishes in Adobe Camera RAW
2010-11-13 Perth Dachshund UN - 47 Dachshunds having a vigorous debate
2010-11-10 Pre-ordered Harry Potter tickets. Need wizard's hat.
2010-11-08 Ebony & Ivory makeup launch and Slovakian ballet
2010-11-01 NaNoWriMo has begun. Day 1 - 2,583 Words
2010-10-30 Ghosting it up - Party at the Prison
2010-10-22 My first Bikram Yoga session...holy crap.
2010-10-20 Morning schedule fail - and Halloween party at the Fremantle Prison!
2010-10-19 NaNoWriMo 2010 - National Novel Writing Month
2010-10-19 Rearranging my schedule
2010-10-18 What happened to the kvass...and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party challenge
2010-10-12 Fruit-eating goal setting
2010-10-11 Keeda is infected. Zombie virus?
2010-10-10 Attempt at kvass-making

2009

2009-11-07 Neighborhood Photos
2009-10-29 Laser Eye Surgery
2009-10-20 Laser Eye Surgery is a-Go!
2009-10-17 Fremantle-y Day
2009-10-10 Tweetie 2 Freaky Keyboard - Still Worth It
2009-10-04 Stargate Universe Looks Promising
2009-10-02 Lion King PC Game Nostalgia
2009-09-27 A Bad Run - Running in the Heat
2009-09-22 Tongue Patch for Dieting Makes it Painful to Eat
2009-09-13 Derren Brown Guesses Lottery Numbers
2009-09-11 I Suck at Eating Burgers
2009-09-11 Would You Use Your Boyfriend as a Human Shield?
2009-08-11 Women's Classic 5km Race
2009-06-21 Jim Sparks - Alien Abductee
2009-04-07 Finished Emergency
2009-04-04 EMERGENCY - "This book has the slight possibility of maybe helping you to save your life one day."
2009-02-01 My First Ever Global Game Jam
2009-01-29 Dream Diary: I was Pregnant! And Died. And Won the 1 Million Mile Race!

2008

2008-12-27 Battlestar Galactica is the Awesomest Thing Ever!

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