FOSS / dev / misc - Peter Serwylo

Free Software Android Apps

Lexica Find as many words as possible on a grid of random letters within a time limit.

Super Retro Mega Wars Play retro games against each other in any combination.

Beat Feet Jump through cities, each automatically generated from the beat of the music.

Baby Dots Soothe and calm young babies.

Thoughts

Comprehensive tips for generating PDFs in the browser Jan 14, 2022
Tempest: Basic 3D Aug 03, 2021
Tempest: Basic progress Aug 02, 2021
Tempest: Initial skeleton Aug 01, 2021
Let the community decide the next retro game Aug 01, 2021
WebSocket game server in Kotlin using Ktor Jul 28, 2021
Sustainable server infrastructure for open source games Jul 03, 2021
Make your writing beautiful Aug 12, 2013
OSDC 2012: Building a free(ish) MAME cabinet Dec 11, 2012
OSDC 2011: Wii Homebrew: Running and writing software for the Wii Nov 21, 2011
PhD confirmation seminar Aug 01, 2011
ISCRAM 2011: PhD colloquium May 22, 2011
ISCRAM 2011: Predicting patient rates May 19, 2011
OSDC 2010: Bad visualisation Dec 30, 2010

Legacy blog posts

Substantially older posts. Written for a different time, in a different style, by a different me. It is quite likely these have poor or outdated advice in them.

linux.conf.au 2010: Attribute Oriented Programming in PHP Jan 23, 2010
linux.conf.au 2012: Finding vulnerabilities in PHP code Jan 16, 2012

Bio

I've been a lover of free software since the 2000's, attending and speaking at many Linux conferences and Open Source Developer Conferences. Among my day job of being a dad and working as a software developer, I also build and maintain the Lexica, Super Retro Mega Wars, and Beat Feet Android games and the BabyDots app to help babies relax.