iamcal.com Since May 2000

Apr 19th: More in the single-serving-webapps-for-games category - a lovely little app for exploring the artifacts in Egg Inc. The web is such a good platrofmr for developing and delivering these micro-apps.

Apr 5th: Using machine learning to find the lowercasest and uppercasest letters.

Mar 31st: If you're playing Stardew Valley (there's a been a bit of a resurgence with the recent updates), then I recommend using Stardew Profits. I love these little single-serving webapps that do exactly what you need and are served from github.io.

Feb 9th: This is one of the most perfectly evil things I've seen in a while - edible fake silica gel pouches

Jan 27th: 13,000 regular expressions seems like a great solution to this particular problem - how the Guardian built an automated style guide checker

Jan 18th: A blast from the past - Achievement Unlocked is a fun parody of achievements in modern games. The link for hints is broken, but the solutions can still be found here

Jan 18th: I've updated my 2020 reading list. In contrast to 2019, where I finished 116 books, I only completed 72 in 2020. This is largely due to the pandemic, no longer having a daily commute, but also not traveling around the world.

My favorites of the year:

• Agency - Drones, Book 3, by William Gibson - Excellent finale to his latest trilogy and set in San Francisco.
  • Edit: Simon Wistow points out that it's really book 2, and that Archangel is 'book 1.5'. A third book might still happen
• Billion Dollar Whale, by Bradley Hope - Incredible story of the man who stole billions of dollars from the Malaysian government and has evaded justice

Jan 5th: I created a couple of google maps helpers when I was working on personal projects a few years ago, but this tutorial on adding custom tooltips to overlay shapes was super useful.