It has been nearly four years since the first line of code of Obsidian was written on January 31st, 2020. Today we're thrilled to announce the winners of our fo...
2024 Gems of the year winners
Today we’re thrilled to announce the winners of our fifth annual Gems of the Year awards! After our panel narrowed down the selection and the community voted on...
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
2025: The year in LLMs
This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about …
This Year In Videogame Blogging: 2018
Another year has passed and now is the time to look back and take stock of the year that was. For Critical Distance that means crafting our mega roundup, with links curated from all the year’s week…
The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2023
It’s been a stellar year in speculative fiction
Monument Valley in Numbers: Year 2
In January of 2015 we made the decision to be transparent with how Monument Valley has performed since its release. We made an infographic…
SAHCon 2025!!!
Welcome to the virtual Homestuck Convention Hall. A single day of fun to make the world a little brighter!
It's 2023, here is why your web design sucks.
Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers.
This Month in Redox - September 2025 - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS
The Redox official website
Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict…
Aspiration | Better Tools for a Better World
It's our 23rd Anniversary! Nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists will convene at the 2026 Nonprofit Software Development Summit, 18-20 November, 2026, to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free, open and equitable digital tools and practices to support social change efforts.
Fireside Friday, June 27, 2025 (On the Limits of Realism)
Fireside this week! Originally, I was thinking I’d talk about the ‘future of classics’ question in this space, but I think that deserves a full post (in connection with this week&…
Fireside Friday, August 16, 2024
Fireside this week! I find I have my thoughts more or less together for the last part of the Imperator series, but I have not yet gotten them into a satisfying order – a common hazard of writ…
Fireside Friday: January 1, 2021
Happy New Year! Good riddance 2020! Fireside this week. Next week, we’ll be finishing up our look at the Dothraki of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones by looking at how they are show…
