side projects, notes, and the occasional rant.https://cattrall.cv/en-ushttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-06-daccord-pivots-to-flutter/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-06-daccord-pivots-to-flutter/A month ago I wrote a defence of building a chat app on a game engine. Here's why I'm rebuilding the Daccord client in Flutter anyway — and why that isn't a knock on Godot.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTdaccordgodotflutterchathttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-06-mogen-studio-launch/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-06-mogen-studio-launch/A free, open-source, bring-your-own-key tool for procedural 3D model generation. You write (or prompt) a compact DSL; deterministic Rust expands it into game-ready glTF assets — no hallucinated triangles.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasemogenrustaihttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-05-codesweeper-launch/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-05-codesweeper-launch/A multiplayer word-guessing party game built for the browser — one clue-giver, one-word hints, and a board mixing words, images, and sounds. Don't pick the assassin.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasecodesweepergamedevhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-05-daccord-discord-alternative/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-05-daccord-discord-alternative/Discord-alternative searches are up 10,000%. Daccord is one of those alternatives, and the choice of runtime under the hood is the interesting part.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTdaccordgodotchatreleasehttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-04-silverlake-launch/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-04-silverlake-launch/A small idle game about restoring a contaminated lake near a breached reactor. Clean debris, rebuild ecosystems, bring it back to life.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTreleasesilverlakegamedevhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-01-llm-plateau-ram-bubble/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2026-01-llm-plateau-ram-bubble/Twelve months of "faster, not smarter" plus a hardware market priced for a future that may never arrive.Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTaihardwareopinionhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2025-10-godot-beyond-games/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2025-10-godot-beyond-games/A cold take, a warm take, and a hot take on why Godot is the most under-used software framework on the planet.Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTgodotframeworkselectronhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2025-10-self-patching-godot-torrent/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2025-10-self-patching-godot-torrent/Mutable torrents, the DHT, and a free distribution channel for indie games that nobody is using.Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTgodotbittorrentdistributionhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2024-10-oversleep-release/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2024-10-oversleep-release/A first-person puzzle game made in Godot, shipped today after a year of work and a soundtrack from the composer behind Metro: Awakening.Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTreleaseoversleepgodotgamedevhttps://cattrall.cv/blog/2024-01-nodot-component-libraries/https://cattrall.cv/blog/2024-01-nodot-component-libraries/A response to a Reddit post asking the Godot team to adopt my library — expanded into why that would be the wrong move.Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTgodotnodotopen-source