My best posts of 2025
Here's my best posts, according to me.
- It's okay to be a certain type of hooligan - about how differently adult bike riders and teen bike riders are treated in Los Angeles
- Dispelling a terrible thing that Grammarly wants you to believe - about what it's been like working in heavily bilingual workplaces for the last 15 years, before generative AI started making people needlessly panic about their writing and fluency
- How do you actually make your money?!? - about how a lot of indie game dev is secretly part time work, even when it seems like the indie devs you know don't have other jobs
- Currency Pokemon on Pokemon Home - about how people can use legendary Pokemon as currency tokens in the Home trading system
- Some thoughts about comedy in Skin Deep - a short writeup about our philosophy for comedy writing in our very funny game, Skin Deep
- The real fake islands where people fake bike - about how Strava and Zwift have graffitied their data for some of the Solomon Islands with fake bike routes from "virtual rides"
- I belong in a museum - about the American Writers Museum's terrible games writing exhibit, which I found demeaning and embarrassing
- I recommend looking at all the iNaturalist observations sorted by favorites - nothing special, but I really do recommend checking these iNaturalist links out. They are incredibly fun
- One year of daily blogging - my post about what it was like blogging for a year after the shutdown of Cohost, and why it's not valorous or even wise to do this
- Living in the "robot" zone - about the eerie marketing of several "autonomous" food delivery bot companies operating in Westwood in Los Angeles
- Thoughts about interfaces acting like people - as a followup to the robot delivery post: a post about how companies benefit from ambiguity over whether you are speaking to a human or a chatbot
I'm still blogging daily despite it getting much harder to continue after I lost the butt-in-seat structure of a 9-to-5 job. I continue to have a rock bottom standard for what I'll post here. I think more people should do what I'm doing (post a lot, with very low standards (and rarely as possible blog about blogging, because this is loathsome loser behavior (I am a loser right now)). But maybe you should not do it in the precise way that I am doing it (without comments, daily, no newsletter).
Hope you're all doing great. The world is a very interesting place, and if you look outward from yourself, you'll find tons of stuff to write about.