Category Archives: long

>750 words

Why Trosnoth?

Posted on Sunday 7 October 2018 by J. D. Bartlett

What makes Trosnoth Trosnoth? And why did we start the Trosnoth project in the first place? Continue reading →

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Ubuntu on a ThinkPad Helix (x86 Tablet/Convertible)

Posted on Thursday 17 September 2015 by J. D. Bartlett

I’m looking for a new tablet. Over the past few days I’ve had the chance to play around with a ThinkPad Helix. The Helix comes with Windows 8, but naturally, I installed Ubuntu to see how it works on a touch device. Here are my findings. Continue reading →

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Issue Tracker Gamification

Posted on Monday 11 February 2013 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve been playing with habitrpg, which gamifies habit-setting. You have a little character with experience points, hit points and gold pieces. You earn experience and gold for achieving your habit goals. You lose hit points for failing to achieve goals. … Continue reading →

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One-off Biphasic Sleep Experiment

Posted on Monday 28 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

In this article I document my recent experience of one night of biphasic sleep in order to complete a project. Background I’ve read a number of articles about biphasic sleep, some claiming (a) that it can be used to achieve … Continue reading →

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Crazy Idea: Chatting to Your Programming Language

Posted on Monday 14 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

What Is This? Today I’m writing about the embryo of a crazy idea I’ve had. It hasn’t yet passed the tests of usefulness and feasibility. I can’t yet clearly visualise what the implementation of the idea looks like. I’m writing … Continue reading →

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