So - week starting the 12th I'm starting a new run of Coding Games with a Story, a five week course teaching young people how to write interactive fiction (in the form of visual novels, using Ink). Build stories that change based on the player's choices while learning about both good story […]

Peace and joy to y"all. And merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate!

Coding is a lot more fun when you don't have to keep jumping around to check you've used _exactly_ the right names for things. Which means we're constantly trying to up our game with the VisualInk editor to make the suggestions it gives as fast, context […]

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Interested in quickly prototyping your #ink based #interactivefiction or #visualnovel? We're starting to look a pretty decent choice, with collaborative editing sessions and (if you're logged in) instant shareable "play" links.

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That feeling when you realise tab didn't complete the filename you thought you that you've just tried to open a 30gb file on a USB drive in vi over an ssh connection.

There's this weird moment in refactoring code, when after hours/days of redesign, changes, and testing you bask in the glow of a job well done and all the improvements you've made... before running the code and seeing absolutely nothing in how it functions differently from the outside because […]

I think I've nearly taken enough stimulants to be able to catch up some sleep #adhd #insomnia

Some (most?) days teaching students to code is uplifting, feels worthwhile, and gives everybody involved a sense of satisfaction.

Other days you discover one of your students hasn't been able to press "enter" for the last 2 lessons because they rethemed their keyboard and the theme turned the […]

Apparently 2025 is the year that has Weird Al singing 'killing in the name of'. Not a parody, not with sanitised lyrics. Just straight up 'fuck you I won't do what you tell me'.

That's... not something I ever expected to see.

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So I noticed yesterday that my home automation server (surprisingly useful when you have solar panels) was running out of storage space, and thought I was going to have to buy more.

Then I noticed that I'd stored every change in fan speed of the ventilation system for the past 18 months because […]

I've been very impressed with the collaborative editing support built into CodeMirror. There's certain properties in software that still always feel magical to me, and shared code editing is very much one of them - watching changes made by other people spread around the world appearing in front […]

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