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Written by Adrian Gray making games in Sydney. Find him on Mastodon or Twitter.

  1. December 08, 2022

    Well, glad to be out of the train wreck that is now ▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋▋ (company name redacted to protect egos). I learned a lot from the experience…

  2. December 07, 2022

    I was converting an old game engine I wrote over to PixiJS v7 and discovered Pixi Particles didn’t work with v7. I had a look at patching…

  3. December 17, 2021

    We just changed our accountant. They charged a quarter of the fees. About 20 years ago, I set up a company with a friend. We asked a shared…

  4. December 16, 2021

    For years I’ve been listening to Startups For the Rest Of Us podcast. He’s super smart and experienced and I place a lot of trust in what he…

  5. December 15, 2021

    I’m well into burnout territory now. Working a full-time job, having two kids I want to be there for, doing a startup on the side, doing…

  6. December 14, 2021

    The Stoics were brilliant at finding meaning in life. Just not mine, For a number of years, I read the Stoics pretty thoroughly and was…

  7. December 13, 2021

    EdScreening was accepted into a startup space. Now I need to figure out why I applied. When someone mentioned the idea to me, I couldn’t…

  8. December 12, 2021

    I randomly came across an e-commerce opportunity yesterday, and I’m not sure I know what to do with it. While listening to a podcast with an…

  9. December 11, 2021

    An episode of NPR’s Throughline came my way via the Invisibilia podcast this morning and it gave me a realisation. I have a complete lack of…

  10. December 10, 2021

    I’ve been working on EdScreening for over a year now. Every night and weekend. I’m overworked, exhausted, and close to burnout. And now I’m…

  11. December 09, 2021

    The sooner the better. I wish I’d learned that earlier. When I was young I was very entrepreneurial. I’d buy out the favourite lollies at…

  12. December 08, 2021

    Neurodiversity is a term used to describe the wide spectrum of differences in human brains. Each one of us has a unique brain, Judy Singer…

  13. December 07, 2021

    I’ve read a few books on habit formation, starting with James Clear’s Atomic Habits, which was tremendously insightful. Using the steps of…

  14. October 10, 2021

    I’ve been gone from the blog for a while. For years I’ve cycled through a process of setting a blog up, writing a few posts, and then…

  15. August 04, 2018

    I hit a few speed bumps with the Japanese spaced repetition app, which ironically, I think I have solved through another side project - An…

  16. March 08, 2018

    I’ve been a bit busy over the last few months nights and weekends. I’m working on an app for english pronunciation with an expert in that…

  17. October 18, 2017

    Oops, I screwed up with that previous SEO update. Let’s hack the sitemap module for a quick and easy custom sitemap I ran into and SEO thing…

  18. October 16, 2017

    TLDR; Try to have your keyword focus before you make the page, and be prepared for surprises. I think I’ve done a fairly decent introductory…

  19. October 12, 2017

    TLDR; It seems SEO has to be my primary channel, but I don’t really understand SEO. Time to change that. I’ve been making things online a…

  20. October 10, 2017

    TLDR; Don’t remove a site from Google’s index if you want it in seach results :) The mystery of not being in Google, solved? I’ve been busy…

  21. October 01, 2017

    TLDR; By early stuffing around with DrLingua.com, I borked Google and Bing… Google and Bing are taking a long time (well, it seems like…

  22. September 29, 2017

    TLDR; HTML5 game developer blogging about making Japanese language educational games for kids. Hey, I’m starting a new thing with kids games…