Aster's Blog
Just another body in the blogosphere.
Posted: January 30, 2026
Category: essays
Tags: coding
Accessibility is not an afterthought. You should be accommodating to the many, many people out there with disabilities who want or need to access your services. This is good business sense–more people can use you features with ease, raising user satisfaction and increasing your reach to a wider audience. Accessibility is also required by law in many situations.
As well, remember that disability is the only minority group you can join later in life–an accident, a repetitive stress injury, or simply aging can make you disabled. One day, one of the people who needs accessibility features to use your app may be you.
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
Posted: September 19, 2025
Category: essays
Tags: tarot
I am not a spiritual person. While I recognize these are important to many people, spirituality, magic, “magick”, and “metaphysics” are not practices I follow or believe in. When people talk about crystals, reiki, astrology, things like that, the best they’ll get from me is a polite nod and a tight smile while I hold back opinions that I know they won’t like.
However. I will go to bat for tarot (and oracle decks et al).
Posted: September 15, 2025
Category: meta
Tags: interactive-fiction
I still have yet to cross-post all my games from itch.io onto this site, but I made landing pages for all of them and I think they look really nice!
Posted: July 28, 2025
Category: meta
Tags: interactive-fiction
I asked to be added to the Neo-Interactives webring, so you will see a new set of buttons in the footer of my site now!
Posted: July 25, 2025
Category: meta
Hey everyone 😄 Since itch.io is currently imploding with the NSFW ban thing, I figured I’d tidy up this site and host some of my games here. Games page is a WIP, but you can check it out at the header above! edit: I’m gonna backfill some old posts I’ve written here also!
Posted: January 05, 2025
Category: devlogs
Tags: interactive-fiction, you-promise
A postmortem about You promise. Full spoilers!