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One main quest, the rest are side quests. Choose your path.

Main Quest

Building and maintaining this site, and writing down what broke.

Adventures in localisation: Bloggst du gerne?
11 October 2026
Localisation from English to German, how difficult can it be? Spinning up a proof of concept with Contentful and Claude.
Eliminating cruft from the codebase
26 September 2026
How the BLOAT was banished, and what it takes to maintain a lean, mean, blogging machine.
The weight of standing agent instructions
20 September 2026
One file of agent instructions grew to over 1,700 lines and cost 25,000 tokens before I'd typed a single prompt. The BLOAT, and how to fight it.

Films, video games, pop culture, and whatever else pulled focus this month.

When films are structured like video games
23 September 2026
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
4 September 2026
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?
10 big box PC games from the golden era
22 July 2026
A photo essay of 10 big box PC games from the 1980s and early 90s, from Zak McKracken to SimCity and Sid Meier's Pirates! You're welcome.