Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

Years ago, a teen pitched an idea to me: “what if you wrote a story about an alien from the perspective of an alien?”

A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by pikliz. Ten years ago David Black caved our heads in when he released The Black Hack into the world. Providing a hyper-streamlined ruleset, TBH is a ...

A game jam from 2026-08-01 to 2026-09-01 hosted by pikliz. Ten years ago David Black caved our heads in when he released The Black Hack into the world. Providing a hyper-streamlined ruleset, TBH is a ...

Despite disastrous policies, polls show the Liberals continue to hold a strong lead

I'm hosting a game jam to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Black Hack. I've mentioned it before on this blog but I adore Th...

Isn't it weird that one of the most important bits of the human experience goes unmentioned in the hobby?

YouTube video by Chel Wong

For six months in 2008, Pete Buttigieg says he spent 14-hour days hunkered down in a suburban Toronto office park, crunching data for Loblaws