Archives – m. c. de marco

Blog Archives

Longer blog posts are listed first, followed by shorter posts, news about my fiction, software releases, and blog housekeeping posts. My old linkblog is archived on a separate page due to length and age. There's also an archive by date and a listing by tags.

Long posts

My longform is still pretty short.

July 19, 2021 Winter Kingdom Builder Math data mapping gaming math sharedware
May 1, 2020 Leafletting data how-to
April 26, 2020 Counting is Hard data how-to
April 17, 2020 Tigris, Tigris Burning Bright data how-to
July 20, 2017 CardPenned gaming sharedware tools
December 1, 2016 NaNoWriMo 2016 NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener Twine hyperfiction gamebooks sharedware choicemaps
October 19, 2016 The State of Hyperfiction NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener hyperfiction gamebooks if Twine
July 15, 2016 10 Hours in Beautiful 504 gaming sharedware tools 504
February 7, 2016 The 504 Almanac gaming sharedware tools 504 decktet
December 4, 2015 NaNoWriMo 2015 NaNoWriMo tools writing timelines mapping conlangs Scrivener
August 30, 2015 More Colourloving Bookmarklets sharedware tools bookmarklets
July 31, 2015 Last Day of Hugo Voting awards cons reviews
May 3, 2015 Don't Register Your Domain with MyDomain blogkeeping
April 22, 2015 Colourloving Bookmarklets and Widgets sharedware tools bookmarklets
March 26, 2015 The Search for a Simple CMS sharedware tools
February 18, 2015 Islands in the Seventies reviews sf writing
February 9, 2015 Build Your Own Hootsuite ADN how-to tools
December 19, 2014 Keeping a Dream Journal writing tools Scrivener
May 21, 2013 Kingdom Board Builder mapping gaming sharedware
April 29, 2013 A Week in the Bitcoin Mines technology how-to
December 29, 2009 Knowing When You've Quit writing
October 24, 2009 On the Perils of Raw Databases genealogy
October 12, 2008 The Daily Zombie, Episode 2: Fido zombies movies
September 3, 2008 On Zombie Science Fiction genre fantasy sf
September 2, 2008 On Fantasy genre fantasy GKC
August 3, 2008 Zombie Apocalypse Redux horror zombies
May 18, 2008 Hopeless Courage JRRT quotes
May 12, 2008 Durin's Moon JRRT calendars dwarves
May 7, 2008 Durin's Autumn JRRT calendars dwarves
May 6, 2008 Black Bile biology language
April 30, 2008 Durin's Day JRRT calendars quotes dwarves
April 28, 2008 Alas for Gimli son of Gloin JRRT quotes dwarves
April 25, 2008 On rereading The Lord of the Rings JRRT Doris Lessing authors
January 1, 2008 On the Kalends of January calendars math
December 9, 2007 Honorable Silence contests
March 25, 2007 Nuclear Fuel Cells Made by Dwarves Ted Chiang dwarves
November 19, 2006 More on LyX sffms sharedware
September 11, 2005 A Terragen Planet Tutorial mapping terragen how-to

Short posts

Like the long posts, just shorter.

June 17, 2017 Harvest Randomizer gaming sharedware
October 27, 2016 Let's Encrypt! NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener Twine hyperfiction gamebooks sharedware
October 18, 2016 Pacing Myself NaNoWriMo tools writing
October 5, 2016 Marshlands Randomizer gaming sharedware
December 10, 2014 Kingdom Builder Randomizer gaming sharedware
November 30, 2014 NaNoWriMo 2014 NaNoWriMo tools writing conlangs Scrivener
December 15, 2013 Penflipping Recipes recipes
November 30, 2013 NaNoWriMo 2013 NaNoWriMo tools
October 15, 2013 LifeLines on Mountain Lion genealogy genetics
April 15, 2013 Crossposting with Drafts tools
April 5, 2013 Antisocial Media streams
July 3, 2011 The First Million Words are the Hardest non-news NaNoWriMo contests
April 13, 2011 The Self-Publishing Tipping Point publishing ebooks
April 10, 2011 Back on the Wagon non-news
November 30, 2010 The Finish Line NaNoWriMo
October 31, 2010 The Annual Mapmaking Post mapping NaNoWriMo
October 30, 2010 NaNoWriMo 2010 NaNoWriMo
October 7, 2009 Dwarves and Tropes and Writing Advice fantasy contests dwarves
June 14, 2009 Too Interactive? gaming technology
May 6, 2009 The Longing for al-Andalus authors reviews
November 30, 2008 Under the Wire NaNoWriMo
October 23, 2008 FriendDA technology writing
October 7, 2008 On Zombie Science Fiction, Part II sf markets
August 21, 2008 Fantasies of Justice horror authors genre
August 19, 2008 Gone Geek gaming
August 17, 2008 Brain Bugs sf tie-ins
August 6, 2008 Spore on a Board gaming
May 21, 2008 Ideals reading drupal
May 17, 2008 Fjords gaming
February 18, 2008 Honorable Mention contests non-news
February 2, 2008 Tens of Thousands of Worker Bees Commanded by Queen Elizabeth local language
October 27, 2007 NaNoWriMo and Drupal drupal NaNoWriMo
October 25, 2007 TaskPaper tools GTD
October 16, 2007 Settling the Score Doris Lessing writing
October 15, 2007 Space Fiction Doris Lessing
October 14, 2007 A Royal Flush Doris Lessing
June 5, 2007 Planets with libnoise terragen mapping how-to
November 30, 2006 Stumbling Across the Finish Line NaNoWriMo
November 9, 2006 Books for the Accidental Conlanger conlangs language
October 29, 2006 Barbarian at the Gates genre
July 6, 2005 The Language of Independence language
March 2, 2005 Sleep Debt writing science
February 24, 2005 How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later genre
February 23, 2005 Show Me the Gantry humor
February 14, 2005 Mänti conlangs
January 26, 2005 Advice from Elsewhere GTD writing
October 27, 2004 Writing a Synopsis plot writing
October 13, 2004 Stargate Novels tie-ins
September 18, 2004 Choose Your Own Adventure if hyperfiction gamebooks

News archives

Ephemera of my writing career.

January 30, 2022 Boskone 59 cons micro
September 3, 2021 DisCon III cons micro
February 16, 2021 Boskone 58 cons micro
February 4, 2020 Boskone 57 cons micro
February 14, 2019 Boskone 56 cons micro
May 31, 2018 publishing micro
February 13, 2018 Boskone on the Cheap cons micro
February 8, 2018 Boskone 55 cons micro
May 28, 2014 Squirrels for Balticon cons writing
August 25, 2011 Interview with the Writer Paramourtal
November 10, 2010 Paramourtal Reviews Paramourtal
October 25, 2010 Paramourtal on Smashwords ebooks Paramourtal
October 21, 2010 Paramourtal in e-Print ebooks Paramourtal
September 21, 2010 Paramourtal in Print Paramourtal paranormal romance
September 1, 2010 To Appear A Little Later Paramourtal
May 15, 2010 To Appear Paramourtal paranormal romance
January 14, 2010 My Shortest Story ezines streams
December 13, 2009 Horror on the Horizon horror
January 3, 2009 Honorable Mention? contests
July 13, 2007 SNW10 Released tie-ins
January 23, 2007 Strange New Worlds 10 Winners Announced tie-ins
October 20, 2005 More SNW8 Reviews reviews tie-ins
September 6, 2005 SNW 8 Review reviews tie-ins
July 11, 2005 Strange New Worlds 8
May 24, 2005 Cover at Last
April 13, 2005 My First Galleys
February 20, 2005 NESFA Short Story Contest contests cons
December 29, 2004 Strange New Worlds Winners Announced contests

Software news archives

Mostly posts announcing software releases.

March 14, 2024 A Pyramid Page gaming micro
March 11, 2024 Pyramid Randomizer gaming micro
March 7, 2024 Zoning Out Bag Randomizer gaming micro
February 26, 2024 Zoning Out Randomizer gaming micro
January 8, 2023 Spider in The New Abstract Games gaming decktet
December 17, 2022 Magnate Roller 1.5.1 gaming decktet micro
December 11, 2022 Magnate Roller 1.5 gaming decktet micro
October 14, 2022 Myrmex 1.3.6 gaming decktet
March 13, 2022 BGG Threader gaming tools
November 3, 2021 PrePub 1.1.2 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine
July 19, 2021 Winter Kingdom Builder Math data mapping gaming math longpost
July 16, 2021 Winter Kingdom Board Builder mapping gaming
June 14, 2021 PrePub 1.1.1 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine
May 16, 2021 Myrmex 1.3.5 gaming decktet
February 11, 2021 Cascades Again gaming decktet
July 22, 2020 DotGraph as a Service tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks
January 10, 2020 Adaman Again ADN pnut gaming decktet
October 29, 2019 Myrmex 1.3.3 gaming decktet
August 4, 2019 Market Bucket 2.2.2 ADN pnut
June 25, 2019 Entwee/Enscree 1.1.1 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Scrivener micro
January 13, 2019 Pnut Botter Talks Back tools ADN pnut micro
January 12, 2019 pnut botter tools ADN pnut micro
November 19, 2018 Clan Correction NaNoWriMo tools writing micro
October 28, 2018 Horizontal Paloma tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine micro
October 16, 2018 Magnate Roller 1.3 gaming decktet micro
July 26, 2018 Scree 3.0.3a tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Scrivener micro
July 16, 2018 Scree 3.0.3 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine Scrivener micro
May 25, 2018 Scapple to Twine to Scapple tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine
May 2, 2018 Myrmex 1.3.1 gaming decktet micro
April 29, 2018 Paloma 1.1.1 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine micro
April 24, 2018 Aucteraden 1.1 gaming decktet micro
March 22, 2018 Aucteraden 1.0 gaming decktet micro
February 10, 2018 Magnate Roller 1.1.1 gaming decktet micro
January 21, 2018 BGG Sorters gaming tools
January 1, 2018 Myrmex 1.3 gaming decktet micro
December 21, 2017 Magnate Roller 1.1 gaming decktet micro
December 18, 2017 Magnate Roller 1.0 gaming decktet micro
December 3, 2017 Myrmex 1.2 gaming decktet micro
December 2, 2017 DotGraph 2.1.0 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks micro
November 14, 2017 DotGraph 2.0.6 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks micro
November 7, 2017 DotGraph 2.0.5 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine micro
October 31, 2017 DotGraph 2.0.4 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine micro
October 30, 2017 PrePub 1.0.1 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine micro
October 15, 2017 Hackathonned tools ADN
October 10, 2017 Scree 1.0.2 and DotGraph 2.0.3 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Scrivener Twine choicemaps micro
August 14, 2017 DotGraph 2.0.2 tools writing hyperfiction gamebooks Twine choicemaps micro
July 20, 2017 CardPenned gaming tools longpost
June 17, 2017 Harvest Randomizer gaming shortpost
April 2, 2017 Pasted and Patreonized tools ADN
December 1, 2016 NaNoWriMo 2016 NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener Twine hyperfiction gamebooks choicemaps longpost
October 27, 2016 Let's Encrypt! NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener Twine hyperfiction gamebooks shortpost
October 20, 2016 Scree NaNoWriMo tools writing Scrivener hyperfiction gamebooks Twine
October 5, 2016 Marshlands Randomizer gaming shortpost
July 15, 2016 10 Hours in Beautiful 504 gaming tools longpost 504
February 7, 2016 The 504 Almanac gaming tools longpost 504 decktet
August 30, 2015 More Colourloving Bookmarklets longpost tools bookmarklets
April 22, 2015 Colourloving Bookmarklets and Widgets longpost tools bookmarklets
March 26, 2015 The Search for a Simple CMS longpost tools
February 1, 2015 Market Bucket 1.2.0 ADN
December 10, 2014 Kingdom Builder Randomizer gaming shortpost
November 12, 2014 Timelines for the Random Family Tree Generator NaNoWriMo tools writing
October 26, 2014 Bicolorize anaglyph bookmarklets
October 19, 2014 Market Bucket 1.1.0 ADN
October 13, 2014 Market Bucket ADN
July 21, 2014 Crick Tickers, Cooters, and Games ADN
January 14, 2014 A Random Family Tree Generator tools writing dwarves
October 3, 2013 Paste 1.2.0 ADN
September 13, 2013 Paste ADN
May 21, 2013 Kingdom Board Builder mapping gaming longpost
March 16, 2012 Twee Two hyperfiction tools Twine
August 11, 2008 For Want of an F sffms
November 19, 2006 More on LyX sffms longpost
November 16, 2006 No LyX Support Yet sffms
February 8, 2006 sffms2txt sffms
October 31, 2005 sffms2rtf Updated sffms
July 15, 2005 sffms2rtf Fixed sffms

Blogkeeping archives

Posts about the blogging software I've used and general blog housekeeping.

November 24, 2023 Re-reindexed tools jekyll recipes micro
November 4, 2023 Quick Indexed tools jekyll recipes micro
August 24, 2023 Instant Indexed tools jekyll recipes micro
April 25, 2023 Artificially Styled ai tools jekyll recipes
April 14, 2023 Restyled tools jekyll recipes
January 24, 2023 Amazon Affiliations gaming jekyll micro
September 29, 2022 Link Checked Again cons jekyll micro
February 5, 2020 PlagueBlogging science micro
May 21, 2019 Reindexed tools jekyll recipes
March 10, 2019 Relinked tools jekyll recipes
May 1, 2017 Macro and Micro short ADN
May 3, 2015 Don't Register Your Domain with MyDomain longpost
February 20, 2015 Archiving the Noughties jekyll
January 31, 2015 Link Checked cons jekyll
January 27, 2015 GitHubbed jekyll
January 12, 2015 Collated tools jekyll recipes
October 7, 2014 Recollected jekyll recipes
August 12, 2014 Collected jekyll recipes
July 24, 2014 Tagged tools jekyll terragen
August 25, 2013 LoneStarCon cons
April 11, 2013 Polaroids photos tools
April 9, 2013 Social Archiving II streams tools
April 4, 2013 Social Archiving streams
April 3, 2013 Jekyll and Left jekyll
March 31, 2013 Octopressing jekyll
May 25, 2009 Amazon Associate Links Not So Fixed, Actually
August 31, 2008 Drupal Valley drupal
October 2, 2007 Under Construction drupal
November 15, 2006 aStore
August 20, 2006 MetaThemed drupal
June 12, 2006 Back from the Bit Bucket
June 30, 2005 Forthcoming drupal
April 27, 2005 Drupal News drupal
March 15, 2005 Amazon Associate
February 21, 2005 Drupal Expansion drupal non-news
February 9, 2005 The Permanent Return of the Site sf
January 16, 2005 Kicking it up a notch drupal
January 16, 2005 Goodbye to Blosxom blosxom drupal
December 22, 2004 Paradox Inc. Revisited publishing
September 20, 2004 Distributivism authors GKC
September 1, 2004 PlagueBlog science
August 31, 2004 Entries Index Plugin blosxom
August 29, 2004 Markdown 1.0 blosxom
August 27, 2004 Breadcrumbs blosxom
August 25, 2004 The Great Popularity genre GKC
August 17, 2004 Timezone blosxom
August 13, 2004 Markdown blosxom
August 12, 2004 Blosxom blosxom