30 Jul 2023
I lost a lot of hours to Settlers as a teen, and I'm sucker for these deep dives on esoteric subjects. This is what the web is for.
Not at all helping to allay the urges to work on a game for GameBoy era hardware.
About
Chancee is a designer who codes from London Town.
They have worked for the likes of Nike, Vodafone, Sky, Disney and Pearsons, won awards from Promax, BAFTAs, the Appys and The Drum. Spoken at The Waldorf and Southampton University - despite swearing like a sailor. Available for hire to draw pretty curves and code clever things.
Archive
Oct 2024
Medieval Beer & Side Hustles
Heavy Rotation September 2024
Sep 2024
The Art of Taking It Slow
Heavy Rotation August 2024
Aug 2024
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor anticipating their demolition of false columns
Heavy Rotation July 2024
Jul 2024
Follow The Crypto
Supreme Commander - Graphics Study
Jun 2024
Heavy Rotation June 2024
May 2024
Heavy Rotation May 2024
Selling 'Ghost In The Shell'
Vim - Inserting inline dates shortcut
xkcd - Machine
Apr 2024
Heavy Rotation April 2024
Blockhead Listening Party
Mar 2024
Heavy Rotation March 2024
X-Men 97 Is To Return
Crypto and ‘TradFi’: a friendship of convenience
The mysterious rise of the Chinese e-commerce giant behind Temu
Twitter Debt
Oumuamua, Our first interstellar visitor
Feb 2024
Heavy Rotation February 2024
JavaScript Bloat in 2024
Knots on Mars!
World’s least profitable blog
Jan 2024
Heavy Rotation January 2024
SP-404 Resources
How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity
Dec 2023
Heavy Rotation December 2023
The future is probably federated
Heavy Rotation November 2023
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
Nov 2023
Integrated Tech Solutions: Aesop Rock
The Design Museum: Skateboard
Oct 2023
Heavy Rotation October 2023
Vim syntax highlighting
DJ Shadow - Action Adventure
Twitter Bank
No, we didn't forget any zeros
"No more trains!"
Tupac Shakur murder: video released of suspect’s arrest for 1996 murder
Sep 2023
Heavy Rotation September 2023
"How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes"
Financial siren
Saving the sounds of Afghanistan
Rain Gardens
Aug 2023
Fuck around and find out award: Antoinette Sandbach
Heavy Rotation August 2023
The long drawn out implosion of NFTs
Kowloon Walled City
Jul 2023
Heavy Rotation July 2023
How palette and lighting works in The Settlers II
Hidari: The Stop-Motion Samurai Film
Jun 2023
Heavy Rotation June 2023
Babylon 5: The Road Home. Official Trailer
Sounds of Fashaga
May 2023
The secret Babylon 5 project is...an animated movie
Mar 2023
MF DOOM X TATSURO YAMASHITA
Jan 2023
Panic enters the Mastodon arena
Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.
Gluten Free Weed Edibles
Nov 2022
UK Treasury joins chat app Discord and is met with torrent of abuse
my website is one binary
Twitter Impodes
Jul 2022
Eevee Beat Tape Discography
The mars company
Another recruit joins the Walkman ranks
Jun 2022
ProleteR: Curses from Past Times
Cocaine, class and me
May 2022
Financial Times's Gideon Rachman on the Ukraine Conflict
Why African fashion is having its moment
DJ Cable: Throw Back Thursdays
Apr 2022
Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia
Mar 2022
From Downtown
Edited latecomer's guide to crypto
Feb 2022
iPod Shennanigans
Jan 2022
Line goes up
Fuck NFTs
Web3 is going just great
Aesop Rock x Blockhead. Garbology
Dec 2021
Playdate Art: Scale
Website carbon
Humble ‘retro’ corded headphones are making an unexpected return, for both aesthetic and practical reasons
Moving files around for Crayon Munchers
Low Tech Magazine
How it all happened
Nov 2021
Space War
Oct 2021
HomeLab MkII
Human History Gets a Rewrite
Aug 2021
Autonomous Monastic State
Jul 2021
Back to the future, baby!
Jun 2021
Gemini and robust computing
Rust and LEDs
One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball
May 2021
Go slow and fix things
The Oral History of the Chelsea Hotel
Good developers know how, great ones know why
"Fuck the bread, the bread is over"
The Promise and Perils of Insect Farming
Apr 2021
It fell of a lorry
Inside a halfway house
Hacking an iPod
Indian drop calls
Why bumblebees love cats, or, why everything is a system.
Sony NW-A55L FTW
Mar 2021
Climate models and Fortran
Plain text protocols
150 Watt Office
High Potassium Posting
Feb 2021
Fuck google: Part II
Fuck google
City cycles
Eating the super-rich
Jan 2021
Four seasons
Dec 2020
"This time, damn it, we’re going to get to the surface"
Chrome is bad
Designing 2D graphics in the Japanese industry
Bad launch leads to real world relativistic math
Nov 2020
Moomins
#SovietTough
Abandon stream: Part 2
Oct 2020
Fuck Boris
American Viziers
Sep 2020
Subscriptions
Motherless Brooklyn
Riding rails
Basic Printing in OpenBSD
Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle
Technicolor portals
Aug 2020
Abandon stream
Behind the Accidentally Resilient Design of Athens Apartments
Jul 2020
The Walkman Forty Years on
Jun 2020
I Dream of Canteens
May 2020
OpenBSD Git server
Unreleased De La Soul Acapellas
Apr 2020
Animating SVGs: Strokes
You're designing for the web wrong: Part 1
A newspaper made from RSS feeds
Marvellous glass
Charlie Sloth Rap Show
Swift: Google's bet on differentiable programming
Mar 2020
OpenBSD Everything
Master & Dynamic: MW60
Where are the voyagers now
Lethal Bizzle is back!
Feb 2020
Low cost, low power NAS
A CSS history tour
Debugging a live saturn V
Two up, Two down in London Town
Jan 2020
Into the indie-verse