Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
[Valve releases the tool they’ve used to create every Meet The Team short for TF2, and it looks incredible.][link]
To wit: What could be the single greatest step forward for machinima… ever, is released for free as a side product because Valve wants to see what you make with it.
[link]: http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/ “Source Filmmaker”
[Cutting out the middle-man and going fan direct for his next tour.][link] He says they will be actively looking for and straight-up *deactivating* scalped tickets.
The scalping idea is interesting, but it seems like the potential for a big PR disaster is there. Unless they plan on investigating every suspected scalped ticket, anyway.
[link]: https://buy.louisck.net/news/im-going-on-the-road “LouisCK.net | I'm going on the road”
What Aaron Swartz called “All the good ideas I’ve heard in one place,” and it is chock full of them. Required reading for anyone who builds software, hires people who do, or manages them. Much of the advice can be applied to just about any profession, though.
The new album from WEEP, my favorite new band of the last several years. Can’t wait. Did I mention WEEP is fronted by Doc Hammer, co-creator of The Venture Bros? IT IS.
[A live think tank][link] featuring Warren Ellis, Bruce Sterling, and others. Happening right now, some good background noise for your Saturday morning depravity.
[link]: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/under-tomorrows-sky “Under Tomorrows Sky on USTREAM: UNDER TOMORROWS SKY IS A PROJECT BY LIAM YOUNG OF TOMORROWS THOUGHTS TODAY AT MU ART SPACE, EINDHOVEN AND IN COLLABORATION …”
[Embedded rich content on the web and official Twitter apps.][link]
>You’ve probably expanded Tweets before to play videos from YouTube or see photos from Instagram. Now, a diverse and growing group of new partners like the The Wall Street Journal, Breaking News, and TIME also deliver rich content inside Tweets containing a link to those websites.
Twitter is fast becoming an exercise on how to make money without being scumbags. Take note, Facebook.
[link]: http://blog.twitter.com/2012/06/experience-more-with-expanded-tweets.html “Twitter Blog: Experience more with expanded Tweets”
Products and services that are going the way of the dodo in iOS 6, the new Macbook Pro, or likewise, based on today’s WWDC Keynote:
* Firewire (still available via a Thunderbolt adapter – hat tip to Jesper)
* Google Maps
* Gigabit Ethernet
* Optical discs
Am I missing anything? Let me know: [@philnelson][link] on Twitter.
[link]: http://twitter.com/philnelson “Phil Nelson on Twitter”
[A little how-to with some example code from Anonymous Hobbyist][link]. I’m considering adding a solar panel to my Arduino, and I really need to be able to monitor the battery (and the 9v backup).
[link]: https://autonomoushobbyist.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/arduino-battery-meter/ “Arduino Battery Meter | Autonomous Hobbyist”
[Tom Francis:][link]
>After eight years as a games journalist and two as a part time developer, I have decided what I think of games: I like them. I’ve also figured out some of the reasons I like them, some of the reasons I sometimes don’t, and which of these things I really care about.
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>I’m far enough through making my own game, Gunpoint, to get a feel for which of these things I can actually do. But I’m still new at this. A lot of them are things I figured out during development, and Gunpoint itself doesn’t reflect them all. So this is a mission statement: a way for me to be specific and public about what I’d like to do in games, and how I plan to do it.
[link]: http://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/ “Suspicious Developments”
[A new free service from 37 Signals][link]: xip.io is:
>a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS
for any IP address.
This is ingenious and will probably become the standard for web development. I’m nearly surprised that Coda 2 didn’t ship with something like this built-in. Bring it on, plugin developers!
[link]: http://xip.io/ “xip.io: wildcard DNS for everyone”
