Evil Trout Inc. is a game company, but Evil Trout (without the Inc.) the pseudoname of Robin Ward, a developer who co-founded Discourse and who has had a blog on the same domain for over a decade. Here's that blog!

Blog

• Building The Roottrees are Dead (2025-01-27)
• The Roottrees are (still) Dead (2024-07-17)
• The Secrets of Skellig (2023-07-17)
• My Retro PC Gaming Nostalgia Kick (2022-07-18)
• Home streaming my games in 4K (2019-12-23)
• Building a Home Media Server with Docker Compose (2019-07-03)
• Candles, Programming and Archetypes (2018-05-22)
• The value of a thousand little features (2017-04-13)
• We finally did something about Android Performance (2016-02-25)
• The 5 Layers of Depth in The Witness (2016-02-19)
• TIS-100: My emulator for a CPU that doesn't exist (2015-06-29)
• Watch: Ember at 10 feet (2014-12-22)
• ember-tv: Creating a 10 foot interface in Ember.js (2014-11-17)
• Screencast: Using Pretender to mock a server with Ember.js (2014-08-26)
• Screencast: Debugging an Ember.js Application (2014-08-16)
• Creating an Integration test in Ember.js (Screencast) (2014-06-27)
• Wrapping a jQuery plugin in a Ember.js component (Screencast) (2014-06-03)
• Building Emberredit (screencast) (2014-05-29)
• Getting Started with ES6 Modules (2014-05-03)
• The Refresh Test (2014-04-10)
• Hiding Offscreen Content in Ember.js (2014-01-04)
• Internationalization Support in Ember.js (2013-11-24)
• Enemy of the State (2013-10-05)
• Let's Talk about Browser Applications (and Forums and Discourse) (2013-07-31)
• Computed Property Macros (2013-07-07)
• Adding Support for Search Engines to your Javascript Applications (2013-06-19)
• AngularJS vs Ember (2013-06-15)
• Organizing Data in Long Lived Applications (2013-05-26)
• Ember without Ember Data (2013-03-23)
• Generating IIFEs in Rails (2013-02-25)
• Infinite Scrolling that Works (2013-02-16)
• Why Discourse uses Ember.js (2013-02-10)
• Crawling the Downvote Brigades of Reddit (2013-01-16)
• How our users exploited concurrency and how we fixed it (2013-01-10)
• Turbolinks and the Prague Café Effect (2013-01-06)
• Just because you're privileged doesn't mean you suck (2013-01-03)
• I've been programming since I was 7 (2012-12-30)