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Heya, I'm Josh. For a long time I worked at, and later ran and owned, this website; now I've returned to my roots as just some guy who hangs out here.

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I once ate a very large donut.

Lately I've been focusing on visual art: oil painting and watercolor, stained glass, linoleum blockprinting, plotter drawings, etc. I sell some prints on my CortexCraftworks storefront and document some of my work on a Patreon art blog. I also tend to post finished work and progress tidbits on my instagram, as well as (in between terrible puns) on my twitter.

I've also recorded a lot of music over the years, less often lately; much of it I've posted on MetaFilter Music.

I did a lot of blogging in the 2000s, and made a lot of goofy little web projects. I used to have a long list of those on this page, but most of it is offline. But there's a couple things worth mentioning:

- Endless Jingling, a randomly generated, infinite holiday music machine I made a while back. Great for ruining holiday parties.
- I wrote a webcomic called Larp Trek several years ago, about the idea that Deep Space 9 was a role-playing game played by the crew of Next Generation. The original site is down, but there's a partial archive at larptrek.tumblr.com.
- I am involved (if not very actively lately) in the PICO-8 game development community, where I made a lot of stuff back in 2015-16, in particular the existentialist unplatformer Ennuigi.