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Interviewed at spillhistorie.no

I was featured in an article at the Norwegian retro-gaming site Spillhistorie. Read more.

Posted Friday 25-Oct-2024 07:32, 0 comments.

Patreon

I created a Patreon page where you can contribute to my projects financially, if you like. Read more.

Posted Sunday 2-Jan-2022 10:56, 0 comments.

My music on streaming platforms

I've uploaded the soundtracks of A Mind Is Born and Parallelogram to a number of commercial streaming services. Read more.

Posted Friday 16-Apr-2021 16:05, 9 comments.

I minted an NFT of A Mind Is Born

I've just minted a non-fungible token of A Mind Is Born on the Ethereum blockchain. Read more.

Posted Tuesday 23-Mar-2021 07:02, 14 comments.

IFComp 2020

The 26th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition starts today, and I'm participating for the third year running. Head over there and check it out! Read more.

Posted Thursday 1-Oct-2020 19:34, 0 comments.

Watch Room

I am proud to have contributed, in a small but significant way, to the award-winning sci-fi short film Watch Room. Read more.

Posted Sunday 19-Jan-2020 21:42, 7 comments.

Xyzzy Award 2018

Yay! Dialog got the 2018 Xyzzy Award for Best Technological Development. Read more.

Posted Sunday 18-Aug-2019 06:53, 4 comments.

IFComp 2018

This is just a quick post to announce that I'm participating in the 2018 Interactive Fiction competition, with my debut work of IF. Read more.

Posted Wednesday 3-Oct-2018 18:44, 0 comments.

Kernighan's lever

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it? Read more.

Posted Tuesday 11-Dec-2012 21:33, 22 comments.

Phasor, high quality video

I am very grateful to Barta Zoli from Hungary, for building a replica of Phasor, making a high quality video capture and allowing me to share it with you on this site (and on youtube). Read more.

• lft_phasor_capture (High quality capture by Barta Zoli, 720x576, 475.8 MB)

Posted Tuesday 22-Jun-2010 16:40, 1 comment.

Linkstar, pagerank peddlers?

I was contacted by a company called Linkstar (link-star.co.uk). They wanted to place text ads on my site, for a reasonable sum of money. Fair enough, but I researched them and found some discouraging information. Read more.

Posted Wednesday 5-May-2010 18:10, 5 comments.

Leaky redaction

Yay! Third place in the 2008 Underhanded C Contest. Read more.

• leaky_redaction_linus_akesson (Tarball, 1.5 kB)

Posted Wednesday 14-Oct-2009 19:34, 3 comments.

What's up?

I realize I haven't posted anything for more than half a year, so you might be wondering what I'm up to. Don't worry, there are plenty of projects in the pipeline. These are the two big ones right now: Read more.

Posted Wednesday 18-Feb-2009 15:57, 2 comments.

Where's the man's hat?

I found this intriguing little story while looking through some old boxes from the attic. Apparently, I wrote this at the age of five. Read more.

Posted Saturday 14-Jun-2008 10:37, 3 comments.

A case against syntax highlighting

Do you rely on syntax highlighting when developing software? If so, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. In this post, I will argue that syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form, and discourages those who look at the code from trying to understand it. Read more.

Posted Sunday 26-Aug-2007 11:44, 200 comments.