Last day of honeymoon today! I suspect going back from this to London winter is going to be a bit jarring
Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Latest blog posts
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My favourite command-line tools
A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that’s what this is.
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The games of 2024
I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.
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Some things I’ve made
- Feud – Bearwaves’ first game, a free-to-play strategy board game for mobile and PC
- Unremember – My first poetry book, published in 2017 by Bad Betty Press
- A LAKE IN AMERICA – A game-poem made in collaboration with Antosh Wojcik
- Growl – A lightweight game development framework, written in modern C++
- eos4j – An Epic Online Services SDK wrapper for Java
Recent
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I had a lovely weekend, thanks
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Just did my first 10K in over a decade (a few months after doing my first 5K in about the same time). Wasn’t fast but I didn’t stop! Feeling very proud of myself
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Watched the first episode of Frieren and I’m fuckin bawling man
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Not been a member of a political party for about five years but I think I’ve seen enough to feel good about changing that today
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The Deep Blue Okay by Self Esteem is a song my brain simply refuses to get bored of. Whole album tbh
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Good lord I’m getting married in two weeks
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So there are a lot of Fediverse servers, right. One for basically any topic or community you could think of. Unfortunately today while researching something unrelated I stumbled across a “feminist” (TERF) instance. I’m not going to say the name or link to it.
Anyway, it’s built on some software called Soapbox which is a Mastodon/Pleroma/whatever frontend. Looked it up and found the guy who made it, thinking “does he know?”. Anyway that was the shot, here’s the chaser.
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Went to my first Algorhythms event last night and it was fantastic
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Not mushroom left in Lucy’s backpack by the end of the day
