Christopher Buecheler
@cwbuecheler.com
• 🤔 "Beekler"
• 🌍 US expat in Paris
• 📖 SFF Author @ cwbwriting.com (Fox Literary)
• 💻 Dev Relations Engineer @ embeddable.com
• 🚀 Creator of SimpleRSS @ simplerss.dev
• 🦋 Creator of EmbedBsky @ embedbsky.com
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Christopher Buecheler
@cwbuecheler.com
· Dec 22
2026 Goals
📖 Self-publish my fantasy humor novel Possessed
🎸 Release a five song EP
🧑💻 Write my 13th book
🖥️ Get SimpleRSS out of beta
🎨 Resume drawing regularly
🥖 Get to B2 level proficiency in French
Gonna pin this and revisit in a few months!
📖 Self-publish my fantasy humor novel Possessed
🎸 Release a five song EP
🧑💻 Write my 13th book
🖥️ Get SimpleRSS out of beta
🎨 Resume drawing regularly
🥖 Get to B2 level proficiency in French
Gonna pin this and revisit in a few months!
Exciting news: we made an offer on an apartment in Boulogne-Billancourt (the town just across the Seine from the 16th arrondissement in Paris) and it was accepted! It's a gorgeous place and the location is PERFECT for us. Right on a bus line to Cha's school and TONS of commerce just steps away.
February 7, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Exciting news: we made an offer on an apartment in Boulogne-Billancourt (the town just across the Seine from the 16th arrondissement in Paris) and it was accepted! It's a gorgeous place and the location is PERFECT for us. Right on a bus line to Cha's school and TONS of commerce just steps away.
It's frustrating to me that the only options really left for buying DRM-free albums are Bandcamp (which a lot of artists aren't on) or Apple/Amazon (to whom I try to avoid giving money). If I want to own an album rather than just streaming it, have to buy and rip CDs like it's 2003.
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
It's frustrating to me that the only options really left for buying DRM-free albums are Bandcamp (which a lot of artists aren't on) or Apple/Amazon (to whom I try to avoid giving money). If I want to own an album rather than just streaming it, have to buy and rip CDs like it's 2003.
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PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION is an early contender for The Game Josh Won't Shut Up About 2026. A keenly-observed look at young adult life/love in the early 2000s, the writing is exceptional, balancing wry humor with raw emotional honesty. My highest possible recommendation. Support indie devs!!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam
A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...
store.steampowered.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:46 PM
PERFECT TIDES: STATION TO STATION is an early contender for The Game Josh Won't Shut Up About 2026. A keenly-observed look at young adult life/love in the early 2000s, the writing is exceptional, balancing wry humor with raw emotional honesty. My highest possible recommendation. Support indie devs!!
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There are two kinds of days in game dev:
The first is where you're a creative force of nature. An ancient all-knowing being of incredible skill and talent weaving gold out of your imagination.
The other is when you're a cave person named Grup, just banging two rocks together.
The first is where you're a creative force of nature. An ancient all-knowing being of incredible skill and talent weaving gold out of your imagination.
The other is when you're a cave person named Grup, just banging two rocks together.
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
There are two kinds of days in game dev:
The first is where you're a creative force of nature. An ancient all-knowing being of incredible skill and talent weaving gold out of your imagination.
The other is when you're a cave person named Grup, just banging two rocks together.
The first is where you're a creative force of nature. An ancient all-knowing being of incredible skill and talent weaving gold out of your imagination.
The other is when you're a cave person named Grup, just banging two rocks together.
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On Monday I'll be officially announcing an artist search for a book cover illustration (not cover design, just the illo). Budget is €1,500 ($1,770). No AI. No spec work required!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
February 6, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On Monday I'll be officially announcing an artist search for a book cover illustration (not cover design, just the illo). Budget is €1,500 ($1,770). No AI. No spec work required!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
My favorite part of final/near-final drafts on books is how little tweaks can have such a big impact. Give a secondary character an extra scene or two, and they hit in a whole different way. Trim a little fat off a scene, and the whole chapter flows more smoothly. Etc.
February 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
My favorite part of final/near-final drafts on books is how little tweaks can have such a big impact. Give a secondary character an extra scene or two, and they hit in a whole different way. Trim a little fat off a scene, and the whole chapter flows more smoothly. Etc.
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OK, this is a big one. My review of @meredithgran.com's Perfect Tides: Station to Station.
This is one of the most important and beautiful games I've ever played.
buried-treasure.org/2026/02/perf...
Please help me dedicate this much time to these games: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
This is one of the most important and beautiful games I've ever played.
buried-treasure.org/2026/02/perf...
Please help me dedicate this much time to these games: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
February 6, 2026 at 12:23 PM
OK, this is a big one. My review of @meredithgran.com's Perfect Tides: Station to Station.
This is one of the most important and beautiful games I've ever played.
buried-treasure.org/2026/02/perf...
Please help me dedicate this much time to these games: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
This is one of the most important and beautiful games I've ever played.
buried-treasure.org/2026/02/perf...
Please help me dedicate this much time to these games: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...
@weirdguita.rs - Guitar made out of powdered mushroom fibers by an artist in Providence, RI. Now on display at Cité de la Musique in Paris, France. Visited a week or two ago!
February 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
@weirdguita.rs - Guitar made out of powdered mushroom fibers by an artist in Providence, RI. Now on display at Cité de la Musique in Paris, France. Visited a week or two ago!
Number of times per day I accidentally hit the emoji menu fn button on my keyboard while trying to hit delete: roughly three hundred thousand.
February 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Number of times per day I accidentally hit the emoji menu fn button on my keyboard while trying to hit delete: roughly three hundred thousand.
On Monday I'll be officially announcing an artist search for a book cover illustration (not cover design, just the illo). Budget is €1,500 ($1,770). No AI. No spec work required!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
February 6, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On Monday I'll be officially announcing an artist search for a book cover illustration (not cover design, just the illo). Budget is €1,500 ($1,770). No AI. No spec work required!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
If any #artist, #illustrator, or #designer out there has suggestions on where else I could publicize this, let me know!
Can we have a Mamdani in the 2026 presidential race, please? Someone who genuinely cares about people and wants to make positive change for the country in meaningful ways?
I don't want to vote for Harris. Or Newsom. Or Buttigieg. Or whatever other neoliberal centrist gets painted as inevitable.
I don't want to vote for Harris. Or Newsom. Or Buttigieg. Or whatever other neoliberal centrist gets painted as inevitable.
February 6, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Can we have a Mamdani in the 2026 presidential race, please? Someone who genuinely cares about people and wants to make positive change for the country in meaningful ways?
I don't want to vote for Harris. Or Newsom. Or Buttigieg. Or whatever other neoliberal centrist gets painted as inevitable.
I don't want to vote for Harris. Or Newsom. Or Buttigieg. Or whatever other neoliberal centrist gets painted as inevitable.
I'm not a huge Star Wars geek but I will never stop using the phrase "Witness the awesome power of [thing that is usually spectacularly mediocre]"
February 5, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I'm not a huge Star Wars geek but I will never stop using the phrase "Witness the awesome power of [thing that is usually spectacularly mediocre]"
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February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
"Some Iranians keep showing defiance anyway"
Yes. That's how you win. No one in history has ever overthrown an oppressive regime without remaining defiant in the face of that regime's cruel and horrific punishments for defiance.
(I know SCJA knows this. Not sure the NYT does!)
Yes. That's how you win. No one in history has ever overthrown an oppressive regime without remaining defiant in the face of that regime's cruel and horrific punishments for defiance.
(I know SCJA knows this. Not sure the NYT does!)
All eyes on Iran. The “heavy price” the NYT so casually euphemizes is oftentimes death. Mass death.
February 5, 2026 at 2:10 PM
"Some Iranians keep showing defiance anyway"
Yes. That's how you win. No one in history has ever overthrown an oppressive regime without remaining defiant in the face of that regime's cruel and horrific punishments for defiance.
(I know SCJA knows this. Not sure the NYT does!)
Yes. That's how you win. No one in history has ever overthrown an oppressive regime without remaining defiant in the face of that regime's cruel and horrific punishments for defiance.
(I know SCJA knows this. Not sure the NYT does!)
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My favourite thing about worker-owned media is that there's rarely any of the obfuscating headlines and both-sidesing that legacy media feels compelled to engage in.
The Washington Post lays off a third of its workforce, is dead:
The Washington Post Lays Off A Third Of Its Workforce, Is Dead | Defector
The Washington Post is being gutted. Jeff Bezos, one of the handful of wealthiest people on the planet, is through pretending to be a conscientious steward of the 150-year-old newspaper, and is now…
defector.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
My favourite thing about worker-owned media is that there's rarely any of the obfuscating headlines and both-sidesing that legacy media feels compelled to engage in.
Dear IRS, thank you for including a QR code to scan to get to your website in your latest mail, but do you think you could maybe also include the URL so that people like me who don't want to do everything using a cell phone, because that sucks, don't have to go manually hunting for it?
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Dear IRS, thank you for including a QR code to scan to get to your website in your latest mail, but do you think you could maybe also include the URL so that people like me who don't want to do everything using a cell phone, because that sucks, don't have to go manually hunting for it?
Whole lotta Democrats going to get primaried this year because they don't understand how much people hate ICE
February 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Whole lotta Democrats going to get primaried this year because they don't understand how much people hate ICE
I almost never watch videos on Bsky. This one was worth it. Perfect speech, perfect delivery.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I almost never watch videos on Bsky. This one was worth it. Perfect speech, perfect delivery.
How has "computers can have multiple monitors" been a common thing for at LEAST twenty-five years, and yet MacOs is still so incredibly bad at dealing with it? Dialogs opening randomly on other monitors, windows opening half off-screen, nothing remembering its position, etc.
February 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
How has "computers can have multiple monitors" been a common thing for at LEAST twenty-five years, and yet MacOs is still so incredibly bad at dealing with it? Dialogs opening randomly on other monitors, windows opening half off-screen, nothing remembering its position, etc.
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always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Post says one-third of its staff across all departments, not just the newsroom, is being laid off.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
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"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
February 4, 2026 at 2:53 PM
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
When I was in 5th grade I sent an anonymous letter to a girl I liked saying I liked her. I also included a little clay heart. I like to imagine the clay heart got destroyed in the mail so when she opened the letter, all this dust and shit just poured out of it, like it had come from a tomb.
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
When I was in 5th grade I sent an anonymous letter to a girl I liked saying I liked her. I also included a little clay heart. I like to imagine the clay heart got destroyed in the mail so when she opened the letter, all this dust and shit just poured out of it, like it had come from a tomb.
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Seeing a fair amount of celebration over this but it's still subscription software under control of a company who tried to discontinue it once.
Now is the time to find alternatives.
Now is the time to find alternatives.
Adobe Animate's situation has now updated to the program to be in “maintenance mode”, meaning Adobe will not be adding new features to the program and it will no longer be discontinued.
February 4, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Seeing a fair amount of celebration over this but it's still subscription software under control of a company who tried to discontinue it once.
Now is the time to find alternatives.
Now is the time to find alternatives.
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A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
![Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udzkh2jubo3w6ei42ftanhhj/bafkreic3fp5yp3asvebljrnnzovrw5a5nljp57bgxoyzh6z33m3qczpn4u@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM
A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.