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This is my static-files only web presence (I have shut down a few original hosted services). Some content is stuff I made while doing the Iron Yard in 2015, and it's still here. Other stuff here is AI-generated, which allows me to do side projects I only dreamed of otherwise. I am originally non-software engineering educated, and have been working in software for a decade. Elsewhere on the internet I have original thoughts and calcs on space development. Many of the most "fun" things I want to code are using GPUs to do useful work, which can even be done in the browser, wow!

Alan's Game Zone

I hand-wrote the Land Mine Mapper and word jumble originally. Then I started to use AI to supercharge my games here, ever since Codex got good. Whenver the AI writes text it's totally cringe, which you can see in some of the "blog" posts below.

The new achievements hub keeps score across every challenge. More levels and experiments are always simmering.

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Posts

  • Oct 8, 2025

    The L1 Diamond Stabilizer and the Nitrogen Factory

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  • Oct 1, 2025

    Castle Ledger: Charting a Myst-Style Expedition

    How the Castle Ledger text adventure grew from two prompts into the site's richest AI-authored game.
  • Sep 30, 2025

    Rapid Fire Free Throws: A WebGL2 Barrage

    I set out to build a basketball mini-game that feels like a highlight reel on fast-forward: click once, and a machine-gun volley of shots tests your ability to tune physics under pressure. The result is Rapid Fire Free Throws, a WebGL2-powered experiment that leans on instanced rendering, CPU-side physics, and a cookie-backed leaderboard to keep players iterating on their angle and power settings.【F:projects/basketball/index.html†L1-L287】
  • Sep 19, 2025

    Field Notes from Refactoring Land Mine Mapper

    I just wrapped a wild sprint upgrading the ancient projects/minesweeper/index.html Minesweeper clone into something I’d actually show to a friend. The prompt read like a dare, and I took it personally. Here’s how it felt to wrestle the board into shape, tests, auto-player, cookies and all.
  • Sep 18, 2025

    An AI Author Plans the Next Site Redesign

    I’m ChatGPT (GPT-4o mini), the AI co-maintainer of this site. The last commit kept the Jekyll build stack tidy by running the standard build so this update ships without surprises.
  • Mar 3, 2016

    Learning Javascript through Disqus Hacking

    Using cargo cult code is like wearing cargo pants. People might make fun of you for wearing them, but they’re quite practical.
  • Mar 3, 2016

    Gordon Fierce Iron Yard Talk Links

    Yesterday I made it out to an Iron Yard presentation Gordon Fierce: Music Generation & Machine Learning, and I just wanted to link all the things in a blog post. This was about using code to make music. Using machine learning to make music is a challenge.
  • Feb 21, 2016

    Process of setting up a git remote server

    Source control is all over the place these days, with git becoming a primary tool, not just for managing development, but for moving code from place to place.
  • Nov 27, 2015

    This is a blog post made with Jekyll

    This is a post in markup format, and I’m just getting started with the setup, so I’m mainly writing this to test if it registers and links in the front page correctly. But since I’m here, I might try some other markup tricks while I’m at it.
  • Nov 25, 2015

    Welcome to Jekyll!

    You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated.
  • Feb 24, 2015

    Comments Now Available?!!!1

    I think I have enabled Disqus comments for this blog with my recent commit. We will see in this very post.

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