The 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition is now open, and for the first time I’ve submitted a game! Esther’s is a short Twine game that Alleson and I built over the last month. There are 71 games in the competition this year, but you only have to play five of them to submit ratings as…
Read moreWhat’s on my mind and what I found interesting of late. I went six weeks without working a 5-day week. Between holidays, camping, and a wedding it’s been long weekends all summer. While it’s lovely, I have to admit that it’s affecting my work more than I anticipated. It turns out there’s a fixed overhead…
Read moreI realized the other day that my favorite form of content discovery is other people’s curated newsletters. I’ve mostly ditched big social media in favor of news sites like NPR and aggregators like Hacker News, but they’re still designed to keep me coming back pulling for new updates. I much prefer Emily Short’s regular Link…
Read moreAbout a month ago a teacher from Switzerland reached out to me with a feature request for https://goodenoughgolfers.com, so I threw together an update. What’s new this week: The Prefer splitting these groups box lets you enumerate groups of players that should be split up if possible. It’s similar to Never allow these pairs but…
Read moreAugust 14, 2020 was my last day at Code.org.
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