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Secrets Reward Curiosity
In The Secret Life Of Machines, Tim Huchin liked to decorate his hand-made contraptions with fun details. Circuit boards would have little plastic people glued to them to make it look like a little city. Anybody curious enough to peek inside would get a delightful little surprise.
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Sharing Is Not Piracy
Piracy is TAKING things away, not giving. That’s obvious, right? Burglary: Removal of property. If I give you something, that’s the opposite of taking. The very first time I ever saw the word “piracy” associated with GIVING was the Napster controversy, and I just assumed it was obvious to everybody how transparently greedy that interpretation was.
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How I Learned To Make Websites
#Amazing Tools From a Bygone EraI often tell people it’s easy to make a website. Why do I believe that? Because I grew up in a time when web browsers like Netscape Communicator came with GRAPHICAL website editors that worked without you having to know any code.
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Restoring the Choice of Activities
Separate appliances give you a choice to make. Doing everything on one device takes that choice away. But you can divide things on purpose to get it back. A few years ago I used one computer for everything. Art, internet, gaming, and YouTube. But there was a problem.
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Writing For Your Website
This website in 2011This website in 2013This website in 2023 How do you write stuff in a future-proof way? I’m not talking about HTML, I’m talking about content. The English language part of it. How do you store that in a form that all future versions of your website can read?
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Why I Admire Furry Fandom
I’ve always admired the furry fandom. They are the laid-back hippie artists of the digital age, and their DIY spirit is downright inspiring. When large art websites like DeviantArt and SheezyArt started rejecting adult art, the furries simply built their own sites. Decades later, FurAffinity is still thriving.
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How I Use Social Media
#The Twitter YearsI don’t think I use social media the way most people do. Even when I first signed up for Twitter way back in 2013, I created my account for a very specific purpose, to post progress updates about my projects. But why Twitter?
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Akira Toryama And Chrono Trigger
About my love of Chrono Trigger and Akira Toriyama
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The Perils Of Exclusivity
Your paywall can be used against you
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Should I Have A Blog?
My website is mainly intended to be an archive of all the stuff I create, all in one convenient place. Having an opinion is not exactly an accomplishment. But when I visit other people’s websites I enjoy reading through their blogs, so why not add one?
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Sprite Art is Changing
Time is changing Pixel Art. Its definition is changing, because the context is fading. And some day soon nearly all context will be lost on most people. It’ll just be that one quirky art style collectively called “Retro.” Like Minecraft except in 2D. Arbitrarily simple for the sake of being simple.
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Contact Page and Optional JavaScript
I made a dedicated landing-page with links to all the places you can find me. I’ve seen other people making these. It’s a good idea. It’s a good idea. Just put all your social media links in one place and link to it. It’s a shorter link and it’s a lot easier than updating a dozen links in a dozen places every time you lose an account for some random reason.
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The Internet Archive
I’ve been obsessed with Archive.org lately. A HUGE online library that’s collecting pictures, books, magazines, software. Backing it up online, making it available to everybody. Very cool. I’ve collected a bunch of interesting things over the years to upload. You can see and freely download everything I’ve put up there so far.
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The Death of Flash
Fun fact, I actually care a LOT about digital preservation. That’s why I emulate all my roms, er… That’s why all my Flash games are self-contained and have EXE versions that’ll run on everything from the original version of Win XP to the latest version of Windows 10.
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