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2026 April photos
Photos from home and my daily walks around the block in Launceston, Tasmania
I write, make, draw, play, game, and do handsome faces. I made Hive Time. Currently making Fossil Sweeper (a game about digging up fossils), Winter's Wake & Icicle (and a stack of side things).
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Photos from home and my daily walks around the block in Launceston, Tasmania
This evening has had a sad surprise for me.
Now, I am calling for #openSUSE to revert the recently imposed project-wide ban on young people:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/6PU6JU2IGKDANYNN3KIXDR2UQSVP6JI2/
Not sure how I feel about it yet (I've only done one dig site so far), but on a whim, I changed one line of code to see how a dig would feel if it were at a 45 degree angle.
Maybe this kind of presentation for "rare specimen" dig sites could help them feel more special/distinctive prior to completing excavation. Mechanically it's the same, but it has a perceptual impact, I think.

Learn in public. Write and talk about what you learn. Discover it like archaeology even though it's barely six seconds old. Talk to the people who were there before you, and ask them what they were thinking,
Don't take for granted that people are oracles who will tell you what's good or not. That ship sailed long ago with everyone wanting us to make them an app and make them rich while they gave us only ideas and expected us to do the work.
Instead you have to want to learn and show that you're doing it, and be willing to make messes and mistakes and own them. Because if you're just vibing, you won't get it.


Time for another late-but-not-so-late Fossil Sweeper progress update post!
During the period covered, I worked more on ironing out my globe asset production workflows.
https://cheeseness.itch.io/fossil-sweeper/devlog/1514339/april-2026-progress