Screenshot Sunday: Morthal at night
Archive of posts filed under the Geekery category.
Skyrimming
I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim recently. It took me several attempts to get it to click with me, but I’m glad I persevered and was ultimately cajoled into playing it again. I’m playing a female Bosmer named Thorn. She specialises in archery, light armour, sneaking and thievery, with a growing sideline in one-handed …
Custom Skyrim follower: Erin the Warrior-Poet
I recently decided I wanted to look into creating Skyrim addons, so last weekend I downloaded the Creation Kit from Steam and followed this great tutorial on making custom followers. It all worked more-or-less perfectly, and after a bit of playtesting, I released Erin the Warrior-Poet on the Steam Workshop. Erin is a new follower …
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Tweet, tweet
Last week, I set my usual Twitter account to one side and tweeted as @PeopleOfUK, the #RotationCuration account for the UK. While I enjoyed the experience of tweeting on behalf of the nation – and I liked to pretend it was by appointment of the Queen – it wasn’t quite what I expected.
@scruffbot
A few weeks ago I decided on a whim I wanted to learn how the Twitter API works, so I went and registered @scruffbot and created a corresponding application. Then, because I am lazy and impatient (like any virtuous programmer) I went looking for a library to use. I ended up with this Twitter with OAuth …