Polygon published an article about the crunch and emotional labor that goes into most big budget videogames these days. It’s partly a reaction to someone at Rockstar mentioning multiple 100-hour weeks as part of the development process for Red Dead Redemption 2: What will be left of the people who make our games? Crunch exists, […]
Walk Safe
Walk safe, everyone. Follow these important tips: (Based on this set of actually good ideas that would also not be necessary if we didn’t cede so much control of our public spaces to cars.) (Thanks to Scott for triggering the idea.)
A Solution to MacOS Auto-Adjusting Input Volume
If you’re having trouble with your input level auto-adjusting on your mic during VOIP calls on MacOS go buy SoundSource for 10 bucks and save yourself a lot of headaches: SoundSource On conference calls we’d regularly have one person clipping and another far too quiet. We tried different VOIP software, different headsets, different environments. It […]
Bike Racks in Ann Arbor
I’m looking for feedback on this. It’s one thing to toss off a tweet about getting some cool racks and another to write over 1500 words about it. Please email me or tweet at me or find me in person to talk about this! Thanks to Workantile for helping me think through some initial ideas […]
Blades In the Dark: Charhollow Manor
Saturday around 5pm Andy and I decided to play a game of something at 8pm. I couldn’t have prepped if I’d wanted to, which turned out to be ideal! We convened on a google hangout and decided to kick the tires on Blades in the Dark. I’d run one game in it a few months […]
Better WiFi: Multiple Access Points with DD-WRT
October 2018 Update: I ended up taking our secondary AP off of the network. The coverage overlap such that if we were in the living room (where we spend a lot of our time) our devices were getting nearly equal signal strength from both APs. Our devices like our iPhones were bouncing between them and […]
Car Repair as an Act of Respect: A Eulogy for Tim Haak
Texts On June 24th around 11pm the texts started coming in that my father-in-law, Tim Haak, was being rushed to the hospital. Something about his heart. Paramedics. CPR. Trying to get information. Vibrations from our phones bringing more half-answered questions as we struggled to fully wake up. Was this like the “episode” he’d had a […]
Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette Issue 1 Recap And Announcement
TL;DR: It went well and there’s a big announcement about Issue 2 (spoiler: get ready, the rest of Michigan, it’s your time to shine)! Go read the Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette Issue 1! Want to make sure you hear about any news about the zine? Sign up here to get updates: Subscribe to Receive the Ypsi-Arbor […]
Newsletter May 28th 2018
Newsletters Ed’s newsletter is four hours late this week, but still good!. I liked his comments about respecting public comment time at the City Council meetings. It’s the least our council can do. Hate Linking I’ve been thinking about this in terms of what social networks reward lately. On twitter it’s very easy to see […]
Hate Linking
Republished from the May 28th 2018 Newsletter. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of what social networks reward lately. On twitter it’s very easy to see something come into view that you’ve never even considered before. That can be a good thing, or be horrifying. Regardless, our (my) tendnacy to slam on the RT […]