Josh's Brain Blog

Using Photoshop's scripting support to address disconnects between art production and legacy code for a large-scale consumer-facing website, complete with some open-source code for you.

Here's how I replaced an old desktop PC with a small-footprint workstation to serve as a central repository for my most important files and applications for my home. And because I'm not the most elegant person in the world, this sort of computing how-to involves a power tool and some masking tape.

What's it like to be a middle-aged gamer? With the age of the Atari and NES, we are smack in the middle of the first generation who has had video gaming as a hobby, in their home, for their entire living memory. Here's a little bit about what that means to me for my present and the future.

As a followup to my earlier post, I'm going to assume that based on my previous thoughts you've now gone to your management team and advocated successfully for some work-from-home days in your life. More likely, of course, is that you're fortunate enough to be in a corporate environment where remote work is already embraced, whether that's for just some days during the week or month, or all of them.

And the time is still now, even if you're in a different time zone from all of your coworkers!

Continuing from the previous Project in Detail blog, the first part of the new CoN logo's creation.

This is the first "Project in Detail" blog I've done about something that wasn't either explicitly web code, or heavily web code with some design enhancement along the way. This time around, I'm documenting the process involved in revamping the logo for Caves of Narshe to celebrate the site's 20th anniversary (on July 31, 2017).