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2023

Mar 29

Farewell, Nintendo eShop for 3DS and Wii U

Mar 24

Announcing Sponsor Access for the upcoming PHP Monitor 6.0

Mar 10

Adopting AVIF and WebP image formats

Mar 03

PHP Monitor 5.8 now available

Feb 08

Steam Deck in 2023

Jan 27

PHP Monitor 5.7 now available

2022

Dec 18

My 2022 Video Game List

Dec 09

PHP Monitor & PHP 8.2

Nov 20

A Trailing Period Bug

Nov 20

Making PHP Monitor actually testable

Oct 22

Endless Concern

Sep 17

What's next for PHP Monitor

Aug 18

On Refactoring

Jun 28

PHP Monitor 5.4 now available

Jun 04

Manually symbolicating crash reports

May 13

PHP Monitor 5.3 now available

Apr 23

Brief thoughts on Elden Ring

Mar 29

PHP Monitor 5.2 now available

Mar 09

Steam Deck

Feb 02

PHP Monitor 5.0 now available

Jan 28

We are unprepared

Jan 20

Build it yourself

Jan 15

Daily Tinker Quota

Jan 07

The Power of Habits

Jan 05

Aftermath

2021

Dec 22

PHP Monitor 4.1 now available

Dec 11

My 2021 Video Game List

Nov 28

PHP Monitor 4.0 now available

Oct 19

PHP Monitor 3.5 now available

Oct 18

Apple's absolute dominion over the laptop market

Aug 30

Reflections

Aug 09

Boundaries

Jul 07

Foundations

Jun 24

Ensuring your computer meets Windows 11's minimal system requirements

Jun 20

Working from home

May 30

You should play: Outer Wilds

May 17

Admitting cluelessness

Apr 28

Current concerns about our industry

Apr 14

PHP Monitor blew up

Mar 19

Time to praise the M1 chip again!

Mar 07

My thoughts on the development process

Mar 04

You really should be on the latest version of PHP

Feb 17

Font subsetting on the web made easy

Feb 17

I finally migrated this site’s database to SQLite

Jan 31

Cleaning up PHP Monitor’s source code

Jan 17

Bloodborne teaches you how to deal with stress, anger and frustration

2020

Dec 28

Developers need low-end devices

Dec 28

Drive health & verifying hard disk integrity

Nov 28

My 2020 Video Game List

Nov 24

REAPER on Apple Silicon

Nov 24

When not to get an M1 Mac

Nov 18

Leaving Intel behind was inevitable

Oct 11

Swift is a great programming language

Sep 11

Working on yourself

Jun 23

Xdebug with Laravel Valet and PhpStorm

Jun 22

The move to Apple Silicon

Jun 21

The ARM transition

May 16

Figuring out backups

May 11

Turbo Boost

Apr 18

Backups with Aegis

Mar 06

Setting up a minimal Windows 10 installation

Mar 01

Surface Go

Jan 28

The iPad, ten years later

2019

Dec 11

My 2019 Video Game List

Dec 08

WebKit’s no performance regression policy

Nov 17

MicroSD card issues on the Nintendo Switch

Nov 03

Using GoAccess to read NGINX access logs

Nov 02

CSS variables and prefers-color-scheme

Oct 21

This website is now entirely JS-free

Sep 10

Meet PHP Monitor, a companion for your multiple Homebrew PHP installations

Aug 26

Removing bundled apps on Android via ADB

Jul 30

Fire Emblem Heroes in 2019

Jun 19

What's on my devices

Jun 15

The new, same website

May 04

Using Mumble as an alternative to Discord for VoIP

2018

Dec 23

My 2018 Video Game List

Dec 01

Thoughts on paying for software and pricing models

Mar 25

The information loop

Feb 24

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage

2017

Dec 23

My 2017 Video Game List

Dec 16

Don’t forget to turn on HTTP/2 to speed up your site

Dec 02

What the hell, Apple?

Sep 24

September is gaming break month

Aug 12

Oh no, I got a Surface Pro?!

Jul 05

Three Point Oh

Jun 23

High framerate sensitivity

Jun 04

Nintendo Switch is as fantastic as I hoped

May 25

Core computer knowledge: do we need a computer license like we need a driver’s license?

May 15

Deconstruction

May 08

The most stylish game

Apr 19

Venturing through the manuscript

Feb 24

Gacha, microtransactions in mobile games and Fire Emblem Heroes

Jan 14

Quick impressions on the Nintendo Switch presentation

2016

Dec 24

Games I enjoyed the most in 2016

Nov 28

Let's talk VR

Oct 20

So Nintendo just announced the Switch

Oct 01

My ideal handheld

Aug 26

Seven favorite games

Aug 20

Rolling out the play log

Aug 08

The price of getting into games

Jul 16

The perfect moment for Pokémon GO

Jul 09

A prelude to storytelling

Jun 13

Brief thoughts after the WWDC 2016 keynote

Jun 10

The curious case of Nintendo

May 06

Overwatch is shiny because of all the polish

May 01

Handheld gaming in a time of smartphones

Apr 04

Why Rainbow Six Siege is such a satisfying game

2015

Dec 18

Games I enjoyed the most in 2015

Aug 05

Mobile games: we could do better

Mar 22

So I finally tried an eReader

Feb 22

The Quarterly Update, I.

2014

Dec 12

I demand your permission: Android's biggest privacy problem

Nov 04

So, what is NaNoWriMo?

Oct 13

On Yosemite & developer tools

Oct 10

Back to Helvetica

Aug 17

Optimizing site performance: gulp, caching, and more

Jul 30

Welcome to the new Cornerstone!

Jun 11

Post-Internship update & OpenShowcase.net

May 01

The importance of narrative: how I discovered visual novels and anime

Apr 11

An Introduction to Long Reads

2013

Dec 01

Eurocities Ghent post-event & Wanna Have It

Nov 20

Small update: The Cornerstone is now retina-ready!

Nov 05

Coming later this Year (Soon?): The Cornerstone 2, and an update on Eurocities 2013

Jul 07

Finished that second year at Artevelde, up next: #oSoc13, Week 2

May 14

Styling Apache's "Index Of" directory pages

May 05

The digital video game conundrum

Mar 26

The post-hackathon coding fever and summer site renovations

Mar 11

Using Git to get things done

Feb 20

Midway second week report: site changes to come and more

Feb 16

A whole set of changes under the hood

Feb 04

The web apps and a few site revisions

Feb 02

Ending January with a blast

Jan 24

Approaching the final exam

Jan 18

The website should be live now!

Jan 16

Lists, archives and other additions

Jan 15

Photoshop practice and images on the blog

Jan 14

Animation and looking forward to a story

Jan 12

Spinners are cool

Jan 11

On icons and writing

Jan 07

The planned short story

Jan 04

Playing the collection of games

Jan 03

The NaNoWriMo 2012 aftermath

Jan 03

Tweaking the site experience

2012

Dec 05

Character depth case

Nov 30

How I won NaNoWriMo

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