The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Here are my blog’s archives.

2021

Nov 08 Horror TTRPGs and Player Agency
Apr 16 RPGs and Fighting Fantasy Books
Apr 15 The Roku Remote
Apr 08 RPG DNA Analysis
Apr 03 The RPG boxed-set come back
Jan 27 Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Starter Set Remixed

2020

Oct 23 1Password Tricks
Feb 12 The iPad Turned 10

2019

Nov 14 1Password partnerns with venture capital Accel
Nov 07 There's no such thing
Nov 06 Computer Files Are Going Extinct
Oct 31 Text editor releases ‘Free Uyghur’ edition
Oct 02 My Latest Gaming Kickstarters
Oct 01 Critical Role does Call of Cthulhu
Aug 25 Sourcehut Welcomes Bitbucket Refugees
Aug 07 Transit System of the Year
Aug 05 Some Comments on the Ennie Award Winners
Jul 24 Man Who Built the Retweet
Jul 11 Uses This
Jul 07 Gamer Stats from White Dwarf in the 80s
Jul 06 My T-Shirt Collection
Jul 04 No Algorithms
Jul 03 2019 ENnies Nominations
Jun 26 Fastmail's New Logo
Apr 16 Mercurial on Sourcehut
Apr 08 9 Things Learned While Building Frostbite's Cinematics Tools
Mar 13 Sir Tim Berners-Lee's 30
Jan 22 The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote
Jan 19 Highlander Reboot Update

2018

Dec 23 Vim and Mercurial
Dec 11 Mercurial Advent Blogging
Dec 09 Vimways Advent Blogging
Nov 12 Remembering Stan Lee
Nov 08 Wikked 0.8.1
Nov 06 Play A Game And Honor Greg Stafford
Sep 24 IRC turned 30
Aug 16 The Missing Element in the Fediverse
Jul 30 Announcing SiloRider
Jul 24 Southpaw Keyboard
Jul 23 We Should Build Cities for People
Jul 18 It's a Good Time to be a Geek
May 20 Modern Mercurial
Apr 30 Effects of CPU Caches
Apr 01 Gutentags Gets A Job
Mar 31 GDC 2018 Recap
Mar 15 A Tale of Three Data Schemas
Feb 27 PieCrust 3.0

2017

2016

Dec 01 Is Bluetooth Even Working Correctly?
Nov 29 Missing The Point Again
Nov 28 From New York To Stockholm
Nov 03 The iOS-ification of hardware
Oct 20 Inside Star Citizen
Oct 20 The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux
Sep 27 Saturday Morning
Sep 24 Richard Garfield's A Game Player's Manifesto
Sep 14 Live Asynchonously
Sep 10 Missing The Point
Sep 10 PieCrust 2.0rc2
Aug 11 Wireless is better than wired
Aug 10 Baking faster with hoedown
Jun 26 Apple Headphones
Jun 09 Piecrust 2.0rc1
Apr 18 Overtime at Frostbite Cinematics
Feb 16 Piecrust Drives A Truck

2015

Oct 04 Wikked 0.6.5
Jul 18 Catching Up With Gutentags
Jul 12 Multi-core PieCrust 2
Apr 22 Announcing September
Apr 20 Piecrust 1.x is Officially Deprecated
Apr 13 Actual Play: Realm Of Shadows
Apr 07 Fanexpo Vancouver 2015
Apr 06 Design For South Paws
Mar 04 Piecrust 2 Documentation Preview
Jan 01 Actual Play: The Murderer Of Thomas Fell

2014

2013

Oct 27 PieCrust 1.1
Aug 18 Fucking pick one
Jul 09 Image Comics going DRM-free
Jun 10 Data First: The File Server (part 2)
Jun 08 Data First: The File Server (part 1)
Jun 07 PieCrust 1.0
May 06 Blog Archives in PieCrust
May 04 Data First
Apr 06 Tough Time for Honest Comics Readers
Apr 03 The Death of Google Reader
Mar 31 The Problem with iOS
Mar 14 PieCrust 1.0 RC

2012

Nov 28 PieCrust on Heroku
Oct 29 Todon't
Oct 05 The post-PC era
Sep 15 This is why people buy Macs
Sep 12 The state of Diaspora
Sep 01 The journey to Diaspora: setting up your own pod
Aug 30 The journey to Diaspora
Aug 25 Microsoft password fail
Aug 25 When Windows "just works": part 2 (the work around)
Aug 20 When Windows "just works": part 1 (the problem)
Jul 23 Piecrust 0.8.0
Jul 15 Why PieCrust?
May 15 Piecrust 0.7.0
May 15 The Official Lawrencium Website
May 12 Catching up with CodePlex
Apr 22 The Journey To Digital Comics: Manga Apps
Apr 12 Mercurial's onsub and mixed sub-repos
Apr 05 Graphicly: Continually Evolving For Content Publishers
Apr 02 Announcing PieCrust For Vim
Mar 29 The Journey To Digital Comics: US Comics Apps
Mar 14 Who Buys Books?
Mar 08 Piecrust 0.6.0
Feb 21 Showing off your dotfiles
Feb 19 Lawrencium -- A Mercurial Wrapper For Vim
Feb 16 Navigation menu in PieCrust
Feb 02 The Journey to Digital Comics: Reading Device
Jan 31 PieCrust 0.4.0
Jan 22 The Journey to Digital Comics

2011

Dec 12 PieCrust 0.2.0
Nov 22 New PieCrust debug window
Nov 20 PieCrust code changes
Oct 30 Abandoning Remember The Milk
Oct 22 Simple workaround for the iPad's smart cover's design flaws
Oct 12 Article drafts in PieCrust
Oct 07 Fresh PieCrust available
Oct 01 PHP is fucked up
Sep 29 From Archos to Amazon
Sep 19 MongoDB for Lucene and ASP.NET
Sep 10 The extension method trick
Sep 05 Formatting mongo output
Aug 29 New PieCrust features
Aug 25 Using Mercurial to publish a PieCrust website
Aug 21 Don't brick your ReadyNAS
Aug 08 IEnumerable is awesome
Jul 13 XBMCFlicks in Canada
Jun 08 Little wireless keyboard
May 03 Enabling Disqus' developer mode
Apr 25 Previewing a baked site in IIS/Apache
Apr 04 Working with Disqus
Mar 20 Announcing PieCrust
Mar 03 Adding sync to Minimalist-Gmail
Feb 11 Google Chrome Search Engines Sync is now on GitHub
Jan 18 Poor man’s search engines sync for Google Chrome (version 2)
Jan 17 My new shiny toy: the Archos 70

2010

Dec 29 Poor man’s search engines sync for Google Chrome
Dec 14 Using Twitter as a feed reader
Oct 05 Making WPF controls double-clickable
Sep 19 The harpsichord and the clavichord!
Sep 14 Facebook’s privacy issues
Aug 30 Xaml serialization quirks and gotchas
Jun 08 Spam your friends with Yahoo! Pipes
May 27 About unit testing Maya and MStatus macros
Apr 20 Writing a custom Main() method for WPF applications
Jan 15 Consolidate instant messaging accounts into your Gmail
Jan 09 Visual Studio Express’ limitations lead to bad practices
Jan 05 My home media & entertainment setup

2009

Dec 24 Exposing global variables in IronPython
Nov 07 Some more contacts love
Nov 02 Fun with jQuery: the vertical “Coda” slider
Sep 04 Some similarities between Apple and Steve Jackson Games
Apr 23 Experimental IronCow branches
Apr 19 Target the .NET Compact Framework using Visual Studio Express
Apr 12 Migrating to Google Apps
Mar 30 Labels and quick links work together
Mar 12 Sync multiple Google Calendars with your iPhone
Mar 09 Textile.Net source code available via Subversion
Mar 06 Conditional operator fun
Jan 11 You know you use PowerShell too much when…

2008

Dec 15 IronCow and Milkify now more open-source
Nov 13 Pass-phrases, and the problem with dumb websites
Nov 13 Disable windows from resuming when opening your laptop’s lid
Oct 24 Visual Studio Tips & Tricks
Oct 24 IronCow and the design for testability
Oct 17 Fixing a bug can cause bugs
Sep 18 Announcing the official Milkify website
Sep 12 Warning
Aug 26 Got burned by Vista
Aug 11 A variation on the auto-completing WPF TextBox
Jul 21 WPF application patterns continued: convention over configuration
Jul 04 Announcing IronCow
Jul 04 WPF application patterns
Jun 25 Almost everything you need to know about XAML serialization (part 2)
Jun 16 Almost everything you need to know about XAML serialization (part 1)
Jun 04 XAML markup is for real men
Jun 04 Custom provider attributes in a configuration element (part 2)
Jun 04 RSS feeds and the zen of the newspaper reader
Jun 04 Custom provider attributes in a configuration element (part 1)
May 28 CreateProperty task in a skipped target
May 07 Regain control over build configurations in Visual Studio Express
May 06 One more on the cloud