So, one of the reasons I barely post on my own blog is because I often struggle with development friction. That is, I tend to lose interest/attention in my personal projects when I start banging my head up against long compile times, or lengthy processes. Most of the time, I just deal with the annoying process until I’m finished with whatever thing I was working on. For longer-running projects, like my website, it ends up stealing my motivation to work on the thing. I’d already eliminated most of the friction for web development when I switched to static site generation, but my setup was brittle and involved me manually FTP-ing into the site to upload stuff. How very 2000’s! So, one of the best ways to get around development friction like this is to just spend a little extra effort on automating the problem away; and lo and behold, along with most other source control providers, Bitbucket now has automation pipelines. With a little fiddling, and a couple of google searches to find the right docker images to work with, I can now just commit and push to my site repo and have it update and deploy here automatically! This practically guarantees that I can keep up with this site, right? Well, maybe..!

Wow!! A blog post! That’s right folks, I’ve finally added another post to this website that I own. Today, I streamed an hour of development on my pet project, which is about my twitter bot @drmelon_ebooks, also known as “tiny melon friend”. You can watch it here:

Hey everyone!! This is Part 1 of a series in making your games accessible to a wider audience! This part is about Rebindable Controls, an extremely powerful accessibiltiy feature that is beneficial not only to all players, but also to you! Read on for more information!

hello y’all!! it’s been forever since i spruced up this little old corner of the internet. welcome to my new webzone, now with 100% less wordpress and 100% more static site generation!!