Have you ever bought a product that comes in a really nice box, hoarded it like some sort of box dragon, let them pile up even though they’re empty, and you don’t want to throw them away, and it’s taking up so much room so you know you have to…
Turning my shameful hoarding into useful hoarding
April 29, 2026
Inside an Aston Martin garage (& meetup)
April 15, 2026
The (Almost) Ultimate Steam Deck Carry Kit
April 6, 2026
My first game jam (GMTK 2021)
January 28, 2026
Painting Iza
January 21, 2026
Building an (unfinished) arcade cabinet
January 14, 2026
How to add ProtonVPN to your *arr stack
January 7, 2026
De-Googling my life
January 6, 2026
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Inside an Aston Martin garage (& meetup)
In 2011 my brother got a used Aston Martin DB7 convertible. I vaguely remember that the electronic seats were broken and he got it at a great discount. After a weekend poking and prodding with a multimeter, he figured out how to repair it and he had a perfectly working…
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The (Almost) Ultimate Steam Deck Carry Kit
I love my Steam Deck. It’s an excellent example of how focussing on the right thing is what makes the concept work. I’ve tried to use the ROG Ally; having to use Windows on a handheld and only get two hours of battery life made it feel hostile, like it…
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My first game jam (GMTK 2021)
During the pandemic I got really into watching game development and analysis videos, including Game Makers Toolkit (GMTK). I had an old GameMaker Studio 2 licence (before it rebranded to GameMaker and turned free in August 2021), and started by watching tutorial series Make A Game With No Experience from…
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Painting Iza
Iza was my then-partner’s cat when I moved countries in 2017. He was wary of me for a bit, but once he realized I wasn’t moving out, he got pissed and started marking his territory. Eventually we became best buddies. For their birthday present, I had decided to paint in…
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Building an (unfinished) arcade cabinet
Around April 2015 I’d got my hands on my first Raspberry Pi 2. The internet was abuzz with the potential of what the Pi could do, but mostly it was the same few things: media center, retro game emulator, or magic mirror. You’ve read the title, you know where I’m…
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How to add ProtonVPN to your *arr stack
If you want a guide on how to set up an *arr stack, or what it even is, I can’t recommend the Servers@Home Wiki enough. You need to protect your torrent client from accessing your regular internet connection. Server hardware: AOOSTAR R1 (2 Bay, Intel N100 / 16+512G)OS: TrueNAS Scale…
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De-Googling my life
Google isn’t your friend. I remember the exact thing that made me decide to move away from using Google services: in February 2025 when they changed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps. It seemed like such an obvious ploy to pander to their fellow racists; I wasn’t…
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Making my first Finite State Machine
Bulletproof Penguin was my first ever game. It taught me a lot of the basics of a lot of the GameMaker engine: making a character move, object interactions, GUI, basic AI, and the most difficult thing of all – how to stop objects getting stuck on slopes. This post is…
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How not to make Marceline’s axe bass
In 2015, I was just starting to get into playing the bass, and watching a lot of Adventure Time. I’m a fan of all things vampire, and Marceline is cool as hell. In June 2015, I had some free time, a bit of extra money, and the intention of going…