Retrospectives
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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Langenium 2012-2025 Retrospective
In 2012, I was playing Eve Online and doing a Level 4 mission. It wasn’t my first one of the night, I’d been grinding trying to get extra ISK (in-game…
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Building A Cool 3D website: Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned
I first learned to make websites back in 1999 using Macromedia software like Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. It was a golden age for vibrant interactive experiences that pushed the boundaries…
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How to create unique art styles and looks with Stable Diffusion
My last article about generating images using PyTorch feels like it was written three years ago, rather than three months ago. At that time the source code of the tools…
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Using a PyTorch DCGAN for Generating Unique Character and Fashion Silhouettes
As a digital artist I tend to prefer working in vector format and as such I’ve been a keen user of Adobe Illustrator and now Affinity Designer. In the course…
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My 2020 Retrospective: A lesson in happiness
2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer…
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Looking Phugly, feeling Stylus
The Kettlefish project is something that arose from restructuring the Langenium project from being a Node.js server to a static HTML site built for Github Pages. At that time in…
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SEO, eCommerce and Presence — Oh My!
Since returning to self employment at the start of October, I’ve focused all my attention on finding new passive sources of income that I could scale up. I’ve spent almost…
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Observations from the Eye of the Storm
I’ve finally produced and released the first pages of Issue 04 of Kamigen. It’s been an awesome journey — particularly because the process makes me focus on individual scenes as they unfold…
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Enhancing SysOps with DevOps
Since discovering it a few months ago, Manjaro Linux has been such a delight with it’s ease of use and performance. So good that, against conventional wisdom, I really want…