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'm part of the Rare Mammals collective, and am an alumnus of Southbank New Poets and Barbican Young Poets. I work in the games industry.
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A friend got a MacBook recently and was asking for recommendations. I found myself wishing I had a list of all my default-installed command-line tools, so that鈥檚 what this is.
I wrote this time last year that I hoped 2024 was a better year for the games industry - this has turned out not to be the case.
I鈥檝e been running this website on IndieWeb principles and tech for over a year now, so I thought it was time for an updated edition.
I have lived in England for over a decade but have yet to visit the famous cliffs. It鈥檚 Thursday, it鈥檚 sunny, I鈥檝e nothing to do until my new job begins next week, so I get up early and hop on a train to the south coast.
I had my last day at Emitwise yesterday, and now I鈥檓 in the odd liminal space that happens before I start my new job next week.
My pal Zach has this ritual when we play D&D - before we start, he rolls the D20. Over and over and over again.
As many have written, 2023 was a great year for the games themselves and a pretty dire year for the industry and the people working in it. Let鈥檚 hope things improve in 2024.