In the grand tradition of an IndieWeb Now Page, here’s what I’m working on at the moment.
Active Work
Health
A bit of a mess, but surviving. Working through depression and ADHD.
MIT Mystery Hunt
My team, The Providence Bureau of Invest-Egg-Ations, won the 2026 MIT Mystery Hunt, and have been working on writing the 2027 hunt since then. Exciting but nerve-wracking!
Puzzle Books
Earlier this year, I finished writing Puzzle Road Trip: Route 66, and it’s shipping (and available at retailers along the Route) now!
Haunted Mirror Mazes for PICO-8
I’ve been learning PICO-8 game development and have begun work on a port of Haunted Mirror Mazes to the platform. I hope to have a full game ready sometime in early 2027.
This Site
Originally I created this site as a placeholder to deal with some weird behavior by WordPress multisite, but now I’ve chosen to start using this blog/site as a breeding ground for other one-off ideas of mine. Specifically, things related to independent web stuff, projects, the Friend Mall, and my zero waste braindump for Fort Worth.
Simmering Work
Dave’s Mapper
I’m still accepting new tiles but need to catch up on adding them to the site. I also have plans to move the remaining tiles out of the git repo now that I know how, and further plans to move them into a CDN of some sort.
The Griddle
I plan to start posting more regularly soon.
Dave Goes the Distance Store
I have some new stickers I need to photograph and list, but it hasn’t been a priority lately and I need to organize and inventory my stock. I also plan to move the store to WooCommerce in the near future, but for now it’s fine on Shopify.
Interst8
I have some new levels to add but not much else.
Brainstorming
Puzzle Archive
I’m becoming concerned with the potential for the puzzle sites I know and love to disappear or become non-functional. I want to start a non-profit of some sort to archive puzzle content and preserve it in a way that makes it accessible for future generations. Some specific targets:
- Robert Abbott’s logic mazes, which need to be fixed to remove or change how sound effects are played, as the exception being thrown means the interactive bits no longer function.
- The ‘Discord Puzzle Archive’ on the Cracking the Cryptic server, which could theoretically disappear if Discord ever went belly-up or nerfed some of the post history.
- Various sites dedicated to puzzle hunts over the years that are no longer maintained.
I am decent with the computer/doing the preservation bits. Would need help getting funding and managing it.
Interactive Fiction Game
TBA