Category: Personal Blog

A Celebration, Some Closure, and Giving It All Away

A Celebration, Some Closure, and Giving It All Away

December 13, 2022 | By

2023 marks my 40th year in the games business, making games pretty much continuously since 1983. Yes, I’m old. To mark this auspicious occasion, I’m hanging up my debugger and retiring from game dev (yeah, right). Obviously I’m still gonna mess around with the odd prototype here and there (told you so), but I don’t […]

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Fixing Google Docs Broken Text Selection Highlight (High Contrast/Dark Themes)

Fixing Google Docs Broken Text Selection Highlight (High Contrast/Dark Themes)

December 2, 2020 | By | Add a Comment

Google Docs is a pretty swish web app, but unfortunately its styling follows Google’s preference for flat, low contrast design. As a visually impaired user, this renders Google Docs inaccessible for me, unless I switch my browser (Firefox) to use the high contrast Windows color scheme, or use a “dark reader” type of add-on. Using […]

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Stuff and Nonsense!

Stuff and Nonsense!

November 25, 2020 | By

Been awhile, so thought I should post a quick update. Things have been a bit weird with the pandemic, but mostly things have just been ticking along. I’m fit and well, but my eyesight continues to get worse. It is what it is, and no point moping about it. It’s quite unlikely that I should […]

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Honorary Doctorate from the University of Derby

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Derby

May 26, 2020 | By

Last year, around July time, I was given the incredible honor of “Doctor of The University”, from the University of Derby, for my years of service in the video game mines. Because I’m a bit of a dork, and hardly ever update this site, I never got around to posting about it. I stumbled on […]

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