A couple of weeks ago I did some digging around in the attic (literally :-). And I came across a burned cd with a bunch of old tracks I made in the 90’s. I was using FastTracker II on my trusty 486 running DOS.

Long story cut short: I took a couple of songs, and mixed them into a new up and downtempo track and shoved them onto the interwebs.

You can listen to the album on Jamendo and SoundCloud.

For years I have been carrying around a small black notebook containing all my work notes. This is all nice and dandy, but it’s not very convenient. This is why I decided to move my main notetaking to the PC. There’s already a big bunch of applications, systems, cloud thingamajigs that provide all kinds of note taking and categorization goodness, but it doesn’t tickle my particular terminal loving fancy.

A couple of weeks ago I started using a Raspberry Pi 2 as my main desktop. It was an experiment, suggested by some folks on the #aardvark channel at irc.aard.xyz, and to my amazement it works great. I rarely have to boot my monster PC since, saving a lot on my power bills and finding new ways of increasing my productivity by using lighter apps at the same time. In this blog post I will describe my current hardware and software setup and give some tips on overclocking this single board computer.

Last week I read Anna Anthropy’s Rise of the videogame zinesters and it left a big impression on me. Having read a lot of books on video games, this one is something completely different. No programmer semi-gods this time (like in Masters of Doom or Hackers), no tough stories about manly men working 100 hour weeks in crunch mode (like in Jacked). No: this book is about human beings making games, everybody, not just the prototypical hetero cis men who have dominated gamer culture for so long.

I have just started reading Rise of the Videogame Zinesters by Anna Anthropy and while I was looking at the games she made I found this little puzzle gem in her list: Herding Cats.