I love computers. There really can’t be any argument about that, if you’ve followed me for any length of time! However, I have a massive appreciation for nature and the natural world. I grew up in rural Scotland, and so there’s a huge streak of woodsiness that lives in me, which I rarely exercise most days - and a streak that I neither truly understood or appreciated when I first moved out to a city, itching to learn and meet new people and start my career. So, what do you do when you feel an uneven yearning for the wilds? You go camping! And what better time to go camping, than in late April?
So, I was musing in the bath (as one does) about things like theory of mind - that is, the concept that different people’s minds hold different information. It’s usually something that human beings develop early on in life when they’re constructing mental models of the world. And that got me thinking about how everyone’s brains do things a little differently, like how there are varying degrees of internal monologue or visualization in different people and how that drives and impacts their different modes of thought. And then, I thought about programming, and how little it seems that programmers talk about how it feels to write code and how that looks internally. So, I thought, hey. Maybe I should write a post about how it works for me? Maybe other people will also come forward with how they feel their mind works when writing code, too? Note: apologies if I get a little abstract here. I’m trying to describe with words something that happens in my own head!
It’s my birthday, again - and that means I’ve lived another full year on our lovely planet! It also means it’s high time for me to write on this blog again, and take a little look back, and a little look forward..!
@leafcodes and I released the Alpha Demo of Tiny Melon Friend’s Big Melon Adventure, bang on time at the end of April. Now that it’s been a little while since we did, it’s time to dig in and take a look at the feedback, the launch itself, and the various bits and pieces of analytic data we recovered!
It’s been a while since I’ve written on my devblog, and so I wanted to send out a little update, and share some of my thoughts and stuff. Read on, read on!
