Also check out the other journal entries by year: 2005–2006–2007–2008.

Game Review: Portal: Prelude

Written on October 11th, 2008.

Portal: Prelude is an unofficial, fan-made prequel to Valve’s popular Portal game. The mod is quite disappointing, however. Weak dialogue, below-average voice acting, and hellishly frustrating levels make this game barely worth playing. Read more.

Monet

Written on August 31st, 2008.

Monet is a Ruby library on top of Gosu, providing functionality such as better event handling and views. And it’s open-source, of course. Read more.

Exciting Times for nanoc

Written on May 22nd, 2008.

In the past 12 months, nanoc has grown from a hacky little script to a full-grown, powerful and flexible Ruby application. So, what are the next steps for nanoc? Read more.

CSS’s Relative Units: Redundant

Written on April 17th, 2008.

These days, the recommended approach for setting all widths, heights and sizes in CSS is using relative units instead of absolute units. With the recent redesign, however, Stoneship has—deliberately—gone the other way. Read more.

Movie Review: Délicatessen (1991)

Written on April 12th, 2008.

France, some time after the second world war. The country is in ruins, and there is not enough food around for everyone. The landlord of an apartment in a rural part of the country solves this by continuing his job as a butcher, regularly hiring new employees, eventually slaughtering them and serving them to his customers. Read more.

Minimal Earth

Written on April 5th, 2008.

I got tired of the old site design and built a new one from scratch—a rather minimalistic one without comments. Read more.

Renaming Internet Explorer

Written on March 18th, 2008.

Perhaps it’s time for Microsoft to pick a new name for Internet Explorer 8 and start with a clean slate. Read more.

Comments

Written on February 10th, 2008.

As of today, Stoneship has support for blog comments. Who shall be the first one to yell “FIRST POST”? Read more.

On Requiring Parens in Ruby

Written on January 29th, 2008.

I have been rethinking my idea of requiring parentheses in Ruby for a while, and I’ve come to the conclusion that requiring them is the wrong answer to a problem I didn’t even explain well. Read more.

Myst Online and Me

Written on January 14th, 2008.

When I started playing Myst Online: Uru Live, I was very excited. After playing the game for over a year, my enthousiasm has mostly disappeared. Here’s why I don’t like playing it much anymore. Read more.

What I don’t like about Ruby

Written on January 12th, 2008.

Ruby is a fantastic programming language. This is not an article about how cool it really is, though—it’s about what I don’t like about it. Read more.