Editorial – Scopique's

Tis’ The Season

Scopique November 11, 2019

There are two ways of looking at the Holiday Season: the first is how the season approaches us and the second is how we approach it. Most of the “it’s too early!” ire, I believe, is because of the mental calculus that…

Developer Blues

Scopique October 30, 2019

I am really the last person you’d want doling out development advice, trust me. I have been “doing development” for about 20 years now, but the thing about doing development is that you’ll never be good enough unless you have a natural…

Addicted to Learning

Scopique October 23, 2019

This is one of those topics that just sits on the top of my brain like a tangled mass of cables stockpiled in that Sterlite container in my basement. I don’t know where to start, or where to end, and there’s no…

The best-equipped non-streamer on the planet.

Scopique October 21, 2019

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this, but I have a love/hate relationship with streaming. I like to consider myself “human-focused” so the idea behind connecting with a community directly through a shared experience should be something that fits the bill, but…

Hobbies

Scopique October 10, 2019

Hobbies are the things we do when we’re not doing the things we must do. They are electives that are chosen because the topics excite us, that allows us to push ourselves for the sheer joy of discovering what we’re capable of,…

Question: Should I Be Using Hashtags?

Scopique October 10, 2019

Here’s something I’ve been struggling with. As the two readers who usually visit this site know (and I say that non-ironically because I see the visitor graph when I log in to the dashboard), I whip out these development posts at random…

Got Us By The Warblers

Scopique October 2, 2019

As if all of my posts weren’t varying degrees of navel-gazing, this one is going to top them all because I’m sitting here right now and I cannot access Tweetdeck. Saying something like that might be like opening one of those cans…

Wanting to be Alone; Wanting to be Together

Scopique September 16, 2019

This weekend I was thinking about streaming my Elite Dangerous or Endless Space 2 sessions, but didn’t. Actually, I did, but only in our Wombattery Discord now that the streaming feature has rolled out to everyone. Discord streaming has been a really…

Too Much

Scopique September 6, 2019

I’m going to riff this one on the back of a comment made by @Stargrace on my previous post, so thanks, Stargrace, for the writing prompt! Video games might be one of the most unique forms of entertainment in the most ironic…

Devil, Thy Name Is Marketing

Scopique September 6, 2019

I had an idea on what I was going to write about this morning, but when I focused in on the specifics — you know, like, words — I realized that I didn’t really have much to say. Instead, I’ll Bob-Ross-Brush-Slap my…