Best Steam games to play on the desktop
So, I wrote a brief post about the best games to play on Steam Deck with links to individual reviews as I write them I guess I should counter that by writing a post about the best Steam ga…
So, I wrote a brief post about the best games to play on Steam Deck with links to individual reviews as I write them I guess I should counter that by writing a post about the best Steam ga…
I've had Owlboy in my Steam Library for a while now, but only just decided to play it. In part, because I wanted to see if it was a good title for my Best games to play on Steam Deck …
Ok, so my BMI is over 30 now, making me officially obese. I am looking pretty good for an obese person, I'm naturally a big chap, though with it comes the spectre of late onset diabetes…
So this is the setup I've decided to start working with in order to get started creating my own music. Go here and download LMMS: https://lmms.io/ (originally called Linux Multimedia …
You can go a very long way these days with free, open source, multi platform software. What that means: Free - No mandatory fees, but if you can donate, please do. Open Source - The source…
I've had this book for a while now, it was released pre-covid (2012) but it's still worth reading, especially as there isn't (as far as I know) a post-covid equivalent. I would …
I grew up drinking tea, thanks to my mother, but it was very standard - PG tips, with lots of milk and sugar. Now, thanks to a mixture of dairy intolerance and late onset diabetes my taste…
I used to love the original MK on the Megadrive and other platforms, I have since bought the latest instalment of the franchise on Steam: Mortal Kombat 11, and it's great, if a little o…
It's valentines day! That one day of the year when you spend time with that person you love..... No? Of course not, if there is a love in your life, you spend every day with that person…
Full disclosure, I was headhunted by Miro a couple of years ago, which was nice. It was a many stepped interview process and I realised after the second interview that it probably wasn'…
Ok, so this is off the top of my head, the best Steam Deck experiences I've had so far. I will continue to update this, as I write individual reviews for each game they will be linked t…
This is a very brilliant book by a very clever man. It's a mind boggling odyssey through the four different and discrete ways in which our universe is myriad. 1. The physical universe m…
It's still a mystery how life began on Earth. So, I have an idea, that might be viable, and no doubt I'm not the first to think this, but I do want to write it down so others can ar…
So this project has been haunting me since I first started it in 2005: https://www.johncotterell.me/2005/07/bugball-10-flash-version.html Live version: https://www.johnc.pro/bugballswf/ Or…
I went to answer a question about WebGL on Quora, and someone else had beaten me to it, though their answer was, well, a little bit fishy: No mention of WebGPU. No mention of the fact that…
I'm so glad I found this game. It was created by a Dead Cells developer, and it shows. Apparently it was originally conceived, very quickly, during a game jam It's a very basic plat…
So, I'm not exactly a Christian, despite my upbringing. But I do value the bible as a great book, it does contain wisdom. It's not as profound as the Tao te Ching , or even The Powe…
This is the fourth, and (currently) final book in the series. There was a delay of a few years before this was released, and the tone, length and feel of the story is quite different. Thi…
" The very best, and most reliable way to root out extremists, in any context, is to be as objective as possible and see who confuses you for an extremist." They won't be able…
Ok, Twitter has changed/is changing. Let's look at recent events, reports, announcements etc. and see if it forms any kind of meaningful picture. Note, this isn't science. unless y…
From a tech person, to people who legislate. If you have anything to do with the online safety bill, please, PLEASE, consider these points before letting it pass. 1. Self harm. How do you d…