2025

This Site Is On Hiatus

This site has been fun and has several good articles. If you're not sure what to read here, I can point you in the best direction. The gamedev column has good posts, particularly about Defold game engine. The links column has good posts about different sites around the old and alt Internet. Special thanks to Dann, Jade, RisingThumb, and Opus for contributing guest posts.

I've decided to move towards writing on a platform with better discoverability and with a context that doesn't take itself as seriously as this website. I wrote about that a bit on my new bearblog.

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Closed Hands on Open Arms Hold Nothing

I finished another small programming project this weekend but somehow I don't have the will to talk about it today. I want to share a song instead.

Saetia - Closed Hands (1997)

It's not their best song. I'd probably give that to One Dying Wish or Venus & Bacchus. But it does start on a downtempo-enough melancholia that listeners not acclimated to 90's screamo will not immediately turn away from it.

MY Open Source Community Discord Bot, HARDBOT

Behind the scenes, there's always been a Discord server that alerts moderators when someone posts on the board.

Keeping up with a small web site that's occasionally active where anyone can post without an account is something you can easily just forget about for long periods of time. Getting logs of what's going on there in third party apps is the main way I always know when someone has posted and quickly popped on to reply to their posts. Making sure that anyone who uses the site gets engaged with and isn't ignored has been the most useful thing about it.

And now you can join HARDCORD Community on Discord

I've open sourced my bot and made the server public. You can join us to chat, to keep up with the feeds and respond to board posts the same way I do, or to contribute with and play with the bot.

How to Make Simple Lighting in Defold

It seems this post had the effect I wanted it to. I've been working on this game again. While I could go over everything I've started doing, we'll skip that and just say that in this post we're going to be adding simple light maps to a 2D game in Defold by modifying the render script.

To add this feature to my current game in theory involves copying it from my other game with some slight adjustments. This post was supposed to walk me through modifying the render script so I didn't have to do it again, but this time, my new game uses a custom orthographic camera library, which has its own custom render script, so we're back in the same situation again of trying to figure out how to mix the functionality of both render scripts into one.

Let's try again

Exploring the Bowels of the Internet

A log of offenses on Basement Community is kept and in June of this year, a user called drummyfish was promptly banned after making this post.

What's that? My spider sense tingles. And it's just as I suspected. We've got an Internet retard on our hands.

On libregamewiki.org, he doxes himself for us, giving us his full name, a list of his usernames, and his open source gamedev projects. His personal site is here.

Now at this point I shouldn't need to warn you that there is going to be every type of retardation beyond that link that you expect there to be. Obviously pay attention to where you click and if anything you are reading begins to sound convincing, please make a website with your photos and personal contact information on it explaining why you agree with it. With that out of the way, let's have a look.

A Summer of Gamedev Burn Out

It's become the Summer of falling out of love with gamedev for me or maybe it's just another temporary round of significant burn out.

Something about web projects that's very different from working on games is how rapidly a new feature on the web either lives or dies. You can knock out something cool in a weekend or less and get it online and see what people are going to do with it. But a game requires a plan of adding up many private victories that don't amount to anything on their own and which players can't appreciate properly until you spend months at minimum -- often years -- lining it all up.

In this post, I'll show you thoroughly with lots of clips what unfinished thing I built this Summer.

How to Add a Feature to a Django User

I'm writing this for myself in the future, so that next time I need to update a Django app with a new feature for the user I won't be fumbling as much to remember how to not destroy everything.

Updates Coming to the Board

It's been over a year since I touched the board.goeshard.org codebase. When I got into game development, it didn't leave a lot of time for webdev projects. Something that made it easy to move away from was, literally no one used the board back then. Now people sometimes use it.

Who knows how long that will last but I have some new ideas.

Let's Listen to Fuckboy Rap

This is the only Nettspend song I fw. In this post I will expose you to cloud rap, teenage hyperpop, drillnb, and the most hilarious fuckboy fail in all of modern underground rap.

Adapting the Futhorc

The Futhorc was the original writing system for English. Theorized to have derived from the Etruscan alphabet, it was widespread across northern Europe until finally being supplanted by the Latin alphabet sometime around the 13th century. It was typically written on wood, to the frustration of modern archaeologists as only the rare stone or metal inscriptions have survived.

Hyper Feminine, America Online Themed Website About Pop Culture

It's Independence Day in America which feels like a good time to feature America's Decline.

The vibe is like...

You're out shopping in the early 2000s and coming up to the checkout, you pass those stands of magazines with Britney Spears and Katy Perry on the front cover.

What's Next For the Site?

Recently I've been experimenting with a lot of different types of posting from different authors and aliases. The direction of the blog kind of jumped from just being a place to throw my sporadic gamedev and technology articles that would come out every month or so while I was more focused on making software into: "I will publish anything that someone wants to write for the site."

After asking people to consider contributing, it occurred to me that the best way I could make this look appealing was to write about other people on the Internet everyday. After all, what better way to make the site seem open to different kinds of articles than to feature different kinds of sites and people. I think that went really well. I'm not ashamed to admit that A True Story of Dead Internet is one of the best articles on the site and I didn't write it. I would love it if more people wanted to write as many quality posts here as that.

However, writing everyday to upkeep the appearance of a site that covers a wide range of topics and has many different writers where anything could happen is taking a lot out of me! Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed it, but I have software that's waiting for me to get back to writing it.

This isn't the end but we might be slowing down for a while. Submissions are always open of course.

Digging Up Y2K Era Cam Girl Blogs

In the early 2000s, there was a race to be the next Stileproject (the wikipedia article should catch you up) and every noname E/N site was adding cam portals, writing about cam girls, and hoping to strike Internet gold in the process.

A "camgirl site" wasn't really what you imagine today. It was closer to a girl with an Instagram and a Snapchat in terms of content -- the main difference being that she was generally interested in web design, was willing to teach herself to get a site up, and would then affiliate with portals for traffic and accept gifts from Amazon wishlists. She was almost always a college student studying the same kinds of subjects other people with websites were studying. Image quality was very low back then. Having full videos was the dream of a few years later. So these girls were also writers.

Let's look at some of these camgirl sites.

Everyone Loves Cake in the Year 2000

A True Story of Dead Internet

The term Dead Internet Theory has been floating around lately. The main gist is that as bots have become more prevalent, they’ve started to replace human interaction online. One might think that computer-generated content would be easy to spot, and in many cases you would be right. However much like how ChatGPT became very adept at creating banal HR dribble, it proved less that AI is capable of human speech, but more so that HR isn’t able to generate content that advances beyond basic predictive text.

The Nihilist OPSEC Blog I

The Nihilist OPSEC Blog was originally published on nowhere.moe. In May of 2025 it went darkweb only and in June of 2025 it went offline. It is being preserved here.

A Community Website Anyone Can Edit

Everyone on the MelonLand Forum can edit this website at the same time together.

everyone.melonland.net

Punp's Pog-Pounding Pog-Pocalypse Slammer Page

I've always been horrible about adding external links to my websites, so starting today, we're doing a new column, The Goeshard Link of the Day, except it's only going to happen when I feel like doing it.

punp.neocities.org

Dada Manifesto (1918) by Tristan Tzara

The magic of a word: Dada, which has brought journalists to the gates of a world unforeseen, is of no importance to us.

Snow Deformation (with Godot)

Snow deformation is a cool effect where as you walk in snow, it deforms it in a trail along where you walk. There's a handful of different ways this can be done. Here I cover a way using particle effects, an orthogonal camera and a Shader on the deformed surface.

Intercepting Requests to Unlock Hidden Functionality

When you fill out a form on a website and hit submit, your browser constructs a POST request and sends it to the website so that it can decide what to do with that information. It would contain not only the data you entered into the form but information about your login session and a cross-site request forgery token (hopefully).

If you're interested in understanding a website's functionality, capturing requests as they exit your browser lets you examine how to effectively interact with the site, as these requests are crafted by developers to elicit successful responses. You can use this insight to create custom requests, which can sometimes yield intriguing results.

Let's look at how to do that with a simple example.

Do You Want to Guest Post an Article for Goeshard.Org?

It's been a while since I've done a meta post. Most of the time when I write, it's to nerd out over whatever programming project I'm working on. For the past year that's been just a lot of gamedev posts. But when I first imagined goeshard.org, this place was intended to be a hub of art, music, programming, and other DIY web projects.

I know when a lot of people set out to make an independent website their mentality is very much, "Welcome to my personal space!" That wasn't really the goal for this site. I wanted goeshard.org to be a celebration of various things across the web in general, but as working on games is very time consuming work, it's what I spend the majority of my free time thinking about. It's naturally what ends up being the primary content of the site.

Having more guest writers could be the element that elevates goeshard.org to coming closer to what I imagined and covering more topics.

Untitled Adventure in Cute Fantasy Farm?

In my brief gamedev career, I've become known for short, brutally difficult arcade games. When you're developing a game like that, it adds a certain amount of high stress once you're ready to release. You want the player to like it. You want the game to be difficult. Both of these things align very narrowly on stars when someone is really good at game design. So with the new game, that pressure is something I wanted to take out.

I'm officially in my cozy gamedev era with this new prototype.

It's been called a surrealist masterpiece by a real person.

A playable feedback request version is AVAILABLE TODAY.

Side Loading a Non-Steam Game to a Steam Deck

Every time I want to add a Non-Steam Game to my Steam Deck I have to look up all the commands in my history and remember all the exact things I frequently forget to make it happen. This will never happen again.

Super Shirtless Guy World Postmortem

Back in December I started a platformer prototype. In February I entered it into a marathon game jam, which is an exercise where participants enter an existing project that they'd like to push themselves to finish and everyone presents their work a month later.

What became of this project is Super Shirtless Guy World, which I consider to be a massive failure despite the game working and being relatively bug free. Basically no one understands it or likes it. In this post I'm going to try to cope but also figure out how I might avoid several pitfalls in the future.

From Firefox to Ungoogled Chromium

This past Wednesday Mozilla dropped a bombshell.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information.

For many years I was very proud to be a Mozilla user. Over time I came to think of them as the lesser of two evils. And now, I just don't want anything to do with them.

I switched to Ungoogled Chromium and inside are some details.

A Personal Post Behind a Password

Grandmother's Country Music, Honky Tonk

I couldn't begin to tell you what a modern country song sounds like or who the artists would be. I scarcely remember the names of 90s country artists I heard as a child from my mother's radio, which I regularly listened to with my cousins and family.

By age 13, I had completely discarded county music. I moved from punk rock, to hardcore, to emo, to ska, to dancehall, to vaporwave, to witch house, to cloud rap, to hyperpop. You name it, but the point is, I left country music in the dust as soon as I was old enough to do that.

Recently I've been experiencing a return to my familial roots. Except it's not my mother's country that I'm here to tell you about. I want to talk about my grandmother's country music.

Fun with Retroarch on Linux

Retroarch is a frontend for emulators. It basically merges multiple systems into a customizable interface with unified settings. I'm going to show you how I build and configure my classic game box and we'll look at the scripts I use to get roms onto it. By the end we will have a complete collection of games, thumbnails, screenshots, and database info about every game ever released for multiple classic gaming consoles. Then we'll do some other fun things like organizing a random game picker.

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