a mostly quiet week
Between work and social engagements, I had limited time to work on my own personal projects this week.
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ups and downs and sides to sides
My pet project for the last week and a half has been to stay logged out of Discord, my primary social platform, through which I stay in touch with my friends, group chats, and niche news. The goal behind this was simple: I spend a lot of time talking to people on Discord, especially when I'm waiting on things to complete (long-running processes, AI agents, etc) or as junk-food-stimulation for when my brain simply refuses to shift out of neutral. Taking a break should, theoretically, force me to spend more time actually doing the things that I am supposed to be doing.
when you add an updates section and then don't use it for two months
As is usually the case, I find myself in a state of paralysis with regards to writing blog posts: whatever I write needs to be worthy of taking a prominent spot on my front page, which has prevented me from documenting the day-to-day out of a fear of banality. To counteract that, I have brought this section into existence for off-the-cuff updates that don't have to be held to the same standard.
Unfortunately, the work for this was complete over a month ago, and I've been holding off on merging it because I hadn't actually written an update: no amount of website tech can help you if the problem resides between the keyboard and the chair. To force myself to get a move on, here are some relatively succinct summaries of the plates I'm spinning at this moment.as I get further into this post, I realise succinctness is hard and this is very much a lie
Hello, again!
So, here we are: a mere ten years and twenty days since my last blog post. That's one-and-a-quarter AAA game development cycles. That spans the rise and fall of cryptocurrency in the mainstream. And, most painfully, that's two full website rebuilds without any new content. Let's see if I can fix that this year.
It is 2025. Technology has always had a dramatic impact on the world, but it's hard to overstate to what extent that will be demonstrated over the next five years: we are on track for a 2030 that will redefine what our everyday life looks like, facilitated by inventions that have been the realm of science-fiction until recently. I am, of course, referring to AI, but I also believe that XR will "come of age" in this timespanQuite literally, given that 2030 will mark 18 years since the Oculus Rift. On the other hand, I made a five-year bet in 2021 about the same thing and I'm on track to lose that, so we'll see., and the two technologies are likely to combine to create a fascinatingly different future.
My goal is to document these changes, speculate on what's next, and demonstrate interesting projects along the way. But before I do that, let's clarify where I stand and what I've been up to.