How I program in 2024

The kids have been enjoying Baba is You, and watching them brought back pleasant memories for me of playing the classic crate-pushing game Sokoban. So I went looking and found a very nice project that has collected 300 classic publicly available Sokoban puzzles. Then of course I had to get it on my phone so I could play it anywhere. The result is...

rabbot.love is a little helper I whipped up to check the programs the kids were writing for a neat little paper computer. video; 25 seconds

I finally decided to hang up a shingle on itch.io. My first app there is not a game. Lua Carousel is a lightweight environment for writing small, throwaway Lua and LÖVE programs. With many thanks to Mike Stein who helped me figure out how to get it working on iOS, this is my first truly cross-platform app, working on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and...

A little sudoku-like app for helping first-graders practice addition. This attempt at situated software for schooling got a little more use than spell-cards.love. video; 25 seconds

crosstable.love is a little app I whipped up for tracking standings during the Cricket World Cup, just to avoid the drudgery of resorting rows as new results come in. video; 20 seconds