The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 1: The Priest’s Treasure
I’m a sucker for “Holy Blood, Holy Grail”-style lore. This makes me think I should check out Gabriel Knight 3.
My first run at Becoming Saint did not go well…
Finished Listening: Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company by Patrick McGee 📚
i remembered the way the tram assembles itself at the ending of black mesa and decided to do a similar type of effect in godot but driven by the player being near the mesh. The mesh is just a simple hallway exploded in Blender.
im still shit at gdscript but this is the coolest thing ive made so far
Repairing our microwave by replacing the fuse? Failure. Replacing the CMOS battery on my laptop seems to have gone OK, so I feel a little bit redeemed.
quarterly AI post: https://ross.karchner.com/2026/02/19/quarterly-ai-post.html
From the Smithsonian American History museum
Brian Bolland
Finished reading: Criminal: The Deluxe Edition, Vol. 3 by Ed Brubaker 📚
Some SpinDoc progress: https://ross.karchner.com/2026/02/12/some-spindoc-progress.html
Finished reading: Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 2 by Ed Brubaker 📚
Finished Listening: Box Office Poison by Tim Robey 📚
Moderately satisfying: fixing a home appliance
Supremely unsatisfying: attempting to fix a home appliance, and failing
3 new events added on February 5th 2026: https://updates.dctech.events/2026/02/05/new-events-added-on-february.html
Level editor for my Spin Doctor/ClockWerx-inspred game. #screenshotsaturday
Finished reading: Criminal Deluxe Edition Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker 📚
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
I’ve been working through Complete Blender Creator 3: Learn 3D Modelling for Beginners , and the first project was this lighthouse scene. I think I pretty much understood what was happening. I’m a little fuzzy on sculpting, but I can loop cut and extrude shit all day.
Bird Bonkers ranked 234 out of 699 (that received ratings) in the GitHub Game-off. That puts it just on the edge of the top and middle third. I’m OK with that. I did basically ignore the theme, and I could have used my time more wisely during that month. Congrats to the folks that did well!
Which games?: https://ross.karchner.com/2026/01/07/which-games.html
DC Tech Events is now on Bluesky and Mastodon. Thanks to the internet archive, I’ve brought back the circa-2007 logo I used on Twitter.
📅 DC tech events today (Jan 7):
• Lead AI Change Outside The Tech Bubble
• AI In Hyperconverged Infrastructure .: AWS-Crystal City, Virginia :.
• Co-Hacking with Hack The Box Labs
https://dctech.events
Giving away copies of Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 to help boost my profile here on BlueSky and leave the other place!
Here's the first one, be quick to claim;
kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...
Finished reading: Fishflies by Jeff Lemire 📚
Finished reading: ERASED by Loo Hui Phang 📚
Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.
Thinking about SpinDoc since I mentioned it yesterday. I’ve been poking at it this evening and after some tweaking, the movement actually feels pretty good. I think the last time I walked away, I was hung up on the idea of b... https://ross.karchner.com/2025/12/30/thinking-about-spindoc-since-i.html
As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back
You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative
Finished Listening: Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick 📚
