I’ve enabled comments on the blog.

Acknowledgement is taking a lot longer than I initially had hoped, but I continue to make progress.

In his seminal book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” there’s one particular anecdote that Dale Carnegie uses which I felt was particularly apropos to MOBA gaming behavior.

I’m currently making adjustments to the acknowledgement feature based on beta feedback.

Here is a progress report on the Acknowledgement feature, which is coming along nicely.

This was the first year for my blog. Let’s see how I did.

I named my app Reiterate because it repeats audio clips back to you, and you repeat the clips back to the app. Some people, however, are confused by the very word reiterate.

Reiterate is meant to be a tool to reduce autopiloting. One of my greatest frustrations as I’ve used Reiterate is when I’ve finished a game session only to realize that I never heard Reiterate play a single clip. The lack of awareness can be so strong that it masks out the audio prompts Reiterate plays. That pretty much negates the entire point of the app.

There are many apps and sites out there that track statistics for you: damage per minute, farm per minute, deaths, kills, etc. Like any other sport, it’s possible to generate all kinds of statistics, and most of it is crap.

One thing you learn when running your own webserver is just how unfriendly the internet can be. Within moments of enabling your HTTP ports, malicious bots will immediately start scanning you, looking for vulnerabilities. It’s not too hard to lock things down; you have to be careful and meticulous and always keep up to date with the current best security practices. But that still leaves one problem: the bots make a mess of your log files.