Joel Auterson
Hello! My name's Joel and I'm a software developer. No, not that one.
I run a tiny indie game studio called Bearwaves. I'm also a published poet.
I run a spoken word night called Boomerang Club, am part of the Southbank New Poets Collective for 2021/22 and am a former Barbican Young Poet. I work in carbon emission reduction at a company called Emitwise.
Hi, welcome to my website.
Recent blog posts
I’ve gone down into the depths these last couple of weeks with IndieWeb, POSSE and a whole bunch of other arcane terminology. Now that I’ve come up for air, let’s chat about it.
I moved from East to South London in the summer of last year. South London has been amazing, especially for food, but there’s one thing missing.
I had a really great year in 2022. I also played fewer games in 2022 than maybe any year previous. I don’t necessarily want to think about what that might mean, thank you very much.
I struggled recently to work out how to build an APK out of a native Android app without using Gradle.
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Things I’ve made
- – Bearwaves' first game, a free-to-play strategy board game for mobile and PC
- – My first poetry book, published in 2017 by Bad Betty Press
- – To investigate ways for poetry to be presented on the web
- – Interactive JavaScript notebooks with clever graphing
- – Reshape JavaScript objects to match a schema
- – A library wrapper which attempts to reshape the input to functions
- – A game engine for the terminal, written in Go
- – A Chrome extension for those 'risky clicks'
- – A Reddit bot that pretends to be DJ Khaled – Relevant blog
- – Ditto, but for Tinder – Relevant blog