Joel Auterson

I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again.

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/make-it-anyway/

Rolled credits on Denshattack! - what a joyous spectacle that game is. Maybe a little tiny bit too long but I had a lovely time and I’m a little sad it’s over.

Fucked it lads

I wrote some thoughts about the best Star Wars game, Star Wars Outlaws.

https://www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/04/star-wars-outlaws/

#games #starwars

I just wanted to play Medabots on Game Boy

Walked the Seven Sisters today and it was lovely

Video Dave and Open Mike Eagle at Jazz Cafe

Lisbon’s lovely, we’ll be back

That was pretty special

Big fan of Cornwall

Sage Francis and Atmosphere at Electric Brixton

Not done a blog in a bit, kind of tempted to write a big ol “here’s why scene graphs are sick actually” but I feel like anyone who needs to know what a scene graph is already knows they’re sick

No lie in for me today then

When I booted this up I got asked what colour clothes I was wearing on the 3rd of July in, I assume, 2007, and I GOT IT RIGHT STILL YOUNG BABYEE

Made a rose and cardamom and pistachio cake for Lucy’s birthday! First time ever making a proper round cake with layers, think it turned out alright

The Olllam at Hackney Church, class gig. Been a fan since before I moved to London, finally got to see them play

One problem with living in the big city is all the nosy passers by

Finally made a cake where I didn’t screw up the icing!

Loved celebrating my pal Tice Cin’s book launch, go read Safe Spaces!

Geese at Troxy

Tepid programmer take: git hooks always suck. They are never good. I am not a child

Such a joy to share a stage with this lot again. Boomerang forever

Read a blog recently where the author said “LLMs use fewer tokens for input than output so they’re cheap if you don’t use them to generate code” which does kind of ignore that “reasoning” involves models generating text to talk to themselves ad nauseum

Games just look better on 4:3 and we have regressed as a society since we started pretending otherwise

I’m a man of culture, you know

I need to do a little redesign on my blog so that posts don’t absolutely HAVE to have images, because it means I often don’t write because a big “proper” post feels like a huge undertaking and I could be writing things bigger than notes, smaller than posts

In today’s Japanese lesson I learned about たこさんウィンナー (Mr Octopus Wiener) and I have to share it with you

Happy eclipse day to everyone except the guy who brought his DJ decks to the once in a lifetime celestial event

I’ve now read all of Earthsea. Don’t think a fantasy series has affected me so deeply since I first read Tolkien or Pratchett. And now there is no more! I am bereft