2026 · 06 · 12
Essay9 min read
On building software the way one tends a garden
There is a version of engineering practice that looks less like construction and more like husbandry. A long meditation on the patience of small systems.
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- 2026 · 05 · 28Devlog6 min read
Hollow Atlas — Devlog 04: Memory as Terrain
Notes from a week spent teaching the cartography mechanic to remember what the player has chosen to forget.
Read → - 2026 · 05 · 04Note4 min read
A short defence of the dotted line
On worldbuilding, partial maps, and the dignity of leaving things unfinished on purpose.
Read → - 2026 · 04 · 19Essay12 min read
The Marrow Engine, in plain English
Why I keep rewriting the same tiny state machine — and what it taught me about narrative under uncertainty.
Read → - 2026 · 03 · 30Devlog7 min read
Tideglass — quiet games for loud weeks
A small two-button rhythm prototype, and what it means to ship something that asks the player to slow down.
Read → - 2026 · 02 · 14Lore5 min read
Northbound Letters — Vol. II opening
An excerpt from the second volume of an ongoing epistolary fiction project.
Read → - 2026 · 01 · 22Essay8 min read
Refusing the role of full-stack anything
A piece written in mild protest of a job title that has, in the last decade, slowly lost most of its meaning.
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