Blog

This is my blog. I don't write about anything in particular; just what takes my fancy at the moment.

February 22, 2026 - Iron Arachne's eighth anniversary
February 20, 2026 - Sandwich Questionnaire
February 3, 2026 - Linux as daily driver, three months in
January 2, 2026 - Tech plans for January 2026
January 1, 2026 - Looking Ahead to 2026
December 31, 2025 - 2025 Year in Review
October 22, 2025 - Running Linux on my gaming PC again
August 9, 2025 - Becoming a Student Again
August 5, 2025 - Revisiting the Kingdoms of Stone and Fire
July 17, 2025 - Migrated gemlog content into this site
July 8, 2025 - Dune: Awakening - First Impressions
July 1, 2025 - 2025 Mid-Year Review
April 20, 2025 - Awaiting Dune
February 15, 2025 - Old and New Experiences
February 13, 2025 - Small web and self-hosting in a world in crisis
January 1, 2025 - Looking Ahead to 2025
December 31, 2024 - 2024 Year in Review
June 23, 2024 - 2024 Midyear Project Update
January 1, 2024 - Looking Ahead to 2024
December 31, 2023 - 2023 Year in Review
December 21, 2023 - Upgrading the star and planet generators on Iron Arachne
December 2, 2023 - Retrospective on November 2023 wellness challenge
November 15, 2023 - Wellness challenge halfway point
November 5, 2023 - First week of wellness challenge
October 31, 2023 - Wellness challenge for November 2023
October 27, 2023 - State of my projects for October 2023
September 18, 2023 - Currently
July 22, 2023 - Old sites and art galleries
July 16, 2023 - Adding a coding reference section
April 12, 2023 - I got a tattoo!
April 7, 2023 - Pivoting back to full-stack developer
March 8, 2023 - Iron Arachne turns five
January 1, 2023 - Looking Ahead to 2023
December 31, 2022 - 2022 Year in Review
December 22, 2022 - Old School Baroque
December 15, 2022 - Make the world small again
December 5, 2022 - First Day in Dragonflight
November 23, 2022 - Regarding social media, web presence, and dumpster fires
November 4, 2022 - Return to Blizzard
October 10, 2022 - Checking back in on Blizzard
July 19, 2022 - Word generation in Iron Arachne
June 7, 2022 - Iron Arachne Dungeon Generator and future plans
May 11, 2022 - Finished Shadowbringers
April 30, 2022 - No Man's Sky
April 22, 2022 - Upgrading the Iron Arachne planet generator
April 1, 2022 - April 2022 update on my RPG projects
January 1, 2022 - Looking ahead to 2022
December 28, 2021 - 2021 Year in Review
November 9, 2021 - The New HeroQuest
October 27, 2021 - An Eventful Few Months
August 2, 2021 - Blizzard is dead to me.
May 26, 2021 - Hrenovuha, the horseradish liquor
May 23, 2021 - Open Source North 2021
April 30, 2021 - Old RPGs of Mine
April 7, 2021 - Games in progress
April 2, 2021 - Building things slowly, and with feeling
March 10, 2021 - A new wishlist for Star Wars: Galaxies 2
March 8, 2021 - Switching to Zola
February 18, 2021 - Another Forgotten Project: Mysteries of a Broken World
January 14, 2021 - Updating Ingenium: Dusting off the manuscript
January 3, 2021 - Looking Ahead to 2021
December 28, 2020 - 2020 Year in Review
November 3, 2020 - Uvinji
October 30, 2020 - Just More Color
October 28, 2020 - On Forever Projects
September 30, 2020 - Leading Up to Shadowlands
September 22, 2020 - On Blogging Versus Social Media
July 20, 2020 - On right action and American politics
June 25, 2020 - Minimal CSS
April 14, 2020 - Generating Worlds: Faking Realism
January 3, 2020 - Predictions for 2030
December 2, 2019 - Learning to use emacs
May 29, 2019 - News sites in a post-advertisement world
May 12, 2019 - Updates to Iron Arachne: The World API and more
March 18, 2019 - Regarding My Blogs
March 6, 2019 - Getting back into MMORPGs
February 6, 2019 - Setting up a new personal blog
January 30, 2019 - Iron Arachne Updates for January
January 22, 2019 - My Spin on the Unix Philosophy
December 31, 2018 - Year in Review 2018
December 29, 2018 - Designing an OSR Game Part 4: Alignment, Treasure, and Exploration
November 28, 2018 - My Breakfast: A Recipe and a Ritual
November 24, 2018 - Designing an OSR Game Part 3: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests
November 9, 2018 - Designing an OSR Game Part 2: Freeholds and Fatality
November 3, 2018 - On Gryphons and Their Kin
October 31, 2018 - Designing a New OSR Game
October 26, 2018 - Playing Characters You Hate
August 9, 2018 - Project Status, August 2018
July 26, 2018 - My Politics, 2018 Edition
May 5, 2018 - Heraldry Generation Pt. 3: Animal Charges and Windows Builds
April 26, 2018 - The Nature of DevOps
March 21, 2018 - Heraldry Generation Pt. 2: Go, Divisions, and Charges
March 12, 2018 - Heraldry Generation Pt. 1: Basics
February 16, 2018 - Generating Fantasy Worlds
January 14, 2018 - Regarding Silver Gryphon Games
November 27, 2017 - Adding Blog Here
June 5, 2017 - Write Simple Code to Prevent Headaches Later
January 1, 2017 - Looking back on 2016, and forward to 2017
November 20, 2016 - From Developer to DevOps: My Story
June 2, 2016 - Fixing the Ansible 2.1 Temporary File Permissions Issue
April 25, 2016 - 3 Reasons why I gave up the Ghost
April 22, 2016 - Moving back to WordPress.
April 15, 2016 - Switching away from iPhone
March 14, 2016 - So, You Want to Leave America
January 3, 2016 - 2015 Year in Review
December 29, 2015 - Kettle, my personal dashboard app
December 10, 2015 - Tutorial: Dealing with Disk Space Errors in Linux
November 30, 2015 - Quick update, and Hugo
September 19, 2015 - Taking up the writing habit again
September 11, 2015 - Get Going with Laravel on Docker
August 3, 2015 - Making army lists in Age of Sigmar
July 19, 2015 - Age of Sigmar breaks Warhammer Fantasy, but it's worth it
November 8, 2014 - Gamehole Con, Day 1
November 6, 2014 - Gamehole Con, Day 0
August 20, 2014 - Star Wars Galaxies: A Community to Remember
July 11, 2014 - Getting Ready for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition
June 8, 2014 - Contact Lost on Asherth
June 1, 2014 - The Salamanders take on Chaos Imperial Guard
January 14, 2014 - First Node.js Hackathon
January 1, 2014 - Conquering 2014: Goals for the New Year
December 29, 2013 - 2013 Year in Review
November 27, 2013 - My Dimension in Rift
October 20, 2013 - My wishlist for a Star Wars Galaxies 2
August 3, 2013 - EverQuest Next Revealed
July 27, 2013 - Reawakening the Starborn
July 20, 2013 - Returning to Skyrim
June 29, 2013 - 10 Years Ago, in an MMO far, far away
June 8, 2013 - Build a Better Warrior in Rift
April 20, 2013 - Create Better Villains for your Adventure
April 6, 2013 - Profession Talents for Ingenium
March 31, 2013 - Being Defiant: Finishing Out Rift's Free Tier
March 24, 2013 - Being Defiant: Currencies Beyond Gold and Silver
February 10, 2013 - World of Warcraft, Modern RPGs, and the Gear Grind
January 13, 2013 - Crafting in Tabletop RPGs
January 5, 2013 - Conquering 2013: Goals for the Year
December 17, 2012 - Succeeding Star Wars: Galaxies
December 9, 2012 - Star Wars: Galaxies Crafting
November 18, 2012 - Why I left Guild Wars 2 for EverQuest 2
August 26, 2012 - Guild Wars 2 is here!
August 11, 2012 - Anticipating Guild Wars 2
July 21, 2012 - Guild Wars 2 Final Beta Weekend
June 30, 2012 - On Game Launches
June 16, 2012 - Rediscovering Guild Wars
June 6, 2012 - The Lore of Starsiege: Tribes
March 6, 2012 - Lime Odyssey: Nostalgia
March 1, 2012 - Blacklight: Retribution First Impressions
February 23, 2012 - I killed Deathwing. Then, WoW died.
February 12, 2012 - Whatever happened to benovermyer.com and manatrance.com?
November 25, 2011 - Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 4
November 18, 2011 - Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 3
November 15, 2011 - Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 2
November 12, 2011 - Skyrim: A Nord's Tale, Part 1
January 16, 2009 - Dungeons & Delectibles
September 9, 2008 - Learning to let go
July 1, 2008 - Age of Conan
May 26, 2008 - Back to the World of Warcraft, and...
April 25, 2008 - What do I do?
April 24, 2008 - What the client wants isn't always what they need
April 22, 2008 - Earth Day 2008
April 17, 2008 - Moving to mobile: how to work from any computer
April 16, 2008 - Do you really need that?
April 15, 2008 - Choice in the workplace? What will they think of next?
April 9, 2008 - Fear and aggression; the dark side, are they?
April 3, 2008 - Wake up with the sun and regain control of your life
March 31, 2008 - Finally, at long last...
March 27, 2008 - Once in awhile: a recipe
March 25, 2008 - Forget the rules and tell a story
March 20, 2008 - Connect and prosper
March 18, 2008 - Three lists that will save you time and keep you sane
March 13, 2008 - The art of eating M&Ms
March 11, 2008 - Another clash of the generations
March 6, 2008 - The workplace? Nah, we need the lifeplace.
March 5, 2008 - On leveling and collections in Star Wars Galaxies
March 4, 2008 - Get an awesome new hobby to improve and enrich your life!
February 28, 2008 - Web workers don't need Stuff.
February 20, 2008 - The art of positive deletion
February 12, 2008 - The Imperial March
January 23, 2008 - Free software, free world
January 17, 2008 - Leveraging Web 2.0 for a tabletop gaming company
January 13, 2008 - From Lord of the Rings Online to...
December 31, 2007 - Yuletide in Lord of the Rings Online
December 20, 2007 - Minstrels in green linen
December 19, 2007 - Web standards, browsers, and the future of the web
December 18, 2007 - The Lord of the Rings Online: Introducing Ceolrigan
December 17, 2007 - T-Mobile must be boycotted
December 7, 2007 - Why Jorn Barger is wrong and the rest of the world is right
December 3, 2007 - Fitness full time
November 26, 2007 - Liberty vs economy: How far can we go?
November 19, 2007 - Second Life, MMORPGs, and conversation
November 12, 2007 - Stream of consciousness, part one: the Internet
November 6, 2007 - Live free. Live open source.
October 29, 2007 - Partisanship is vile. What loss to this country...
October 10, 2007 - True open source - death of the individual or celebration of individualism?