My son’s reading saga continues! There are now 6 Minecraft stories I wrote for my son. I’m posting them after he reads them. While he reads, I notice things that can be improved, so you get the edited versions.

A few days ago I wrote a minecraft story for my son. Since then he’s been asking for more stories. I wrote a new one for him yesterday, and he loved it.

Bluesky just opened up to everyone, and I created an account. I haven’t posted anything yet, but it’s there.

We think my son has dyslexia. He is far behind in reading and I’ve struggled to get him to practice. Though not officially diagnosed, we suspect dyslexia has played a significant role in his reading difficulties. Despite numerous attempts to find suitable reading materials, progress has been slow, and frustration has often overshadowed any sense of accomplishment.

It was 1985. On a fold-out card table, a worn copy of COMPUTE! magazine lay propped open with toy Tauntauns acting as paperweights. My tiny fingers had just finished transcribing the code for Mindbusters into GW-BASIC on the bulky desktop PC. I typed “RUN” and hit Enter. There was a pause as the code compiled. The floppy drive chugged a few times. And then…

Last weekend, my nephew mentioned that he wanted to build a website, so I set him up with a Neocities site and showed him how to edit the header. I started feeling nostalgic for those days in the ’90s when I hand-coded HTML websites. I used to have a copy of O’Reilly’s Dynamic HTML book, filled with bookmarks and post-it notes, to help me write CSS/JavaScript/VBScript so websites would work on all browsers. I would often have to write double the code to get it to work on different browsers because they were incompatible.