Michael Dowden
@mrdowden.com
(he/him) Technology Leader, International Keynote Speaker, Author, Coder, Gamer. Founder @AndromedaGalactic.com, @LoreLink.com, & FlexePark. MBA, Firebase & Web GDE, Microsoft MVP. Advocate for ethics, accessibility, and human rights. mrdowden.com
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Isambard Kingdom Babybel.
(I *genuinely* mean this with respect. Good design endures.)
(I *genuinely* mean this with respect. Good design endures.)
December 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Isambard Kingdom Babybel.
(I *genuinely* mean this with respect. Good design endures.)
(I *genuinely* mean this with respect. Good design endures.)
Reposted by Michael Dowden
Ope.
Just dropped $130 on Bambu's site for replacement parts, since both the A1 Mini and the P1P are down.
So, you know, just gonna drop this link... right... here...
troxellstradingpost.shop
Just dropped $130 on Bambu's site for replacement parts, since both the A1 Mini and the P1P are down.
So, you know, just gonna drop this link... right... here...
troxellstradingpost.shop
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Ope.
Just dropped $130 on Bambu's site for replacement parts, since both the A1 Mini and the P1P are down.
So, you know, just gonna drop this link... right... here...
troxellstradingpost.shop
Just dropped $130 on Bambu's site for replacement parts, since both the A1 Mini and the P1P are down.
So, you know, just gonna drop this link... right... here...
troxellstradingpost.shop
So happy for these two
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
So happy for these two
Please join us! This is going to be a lot of fun.
Tuesday is for Twitch!
This afternoon, come see @markdc.bsky.social run the Lore Link Players through a game of Reel Fear with their very special guest, @ugli4life.bsky.social!
Join us, starting at 4 PM EST, over on Twitch!
This afternoon, come see @markdc.bsky.social run the Lore Link Players through a game of Reel Fear with their very special guest, @ugli4life.bsky.social!
Join us, starting at 4 PM EST, over on Twitch!
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
twitch.tv
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please join us! This is going to be a lot of fun.
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Are you wondering what #TTRPG systems Lore Link works with?
Well, pretty much all of them.
Want to see what we've used Lore Link with? Check out our Examples page to see some of the games we've worked with on stream!
lorelink.com/systems
Well, pretty much all of them.
Want to see what we've used Lore Link with? Check out our Examples page to see some of the games we've worked with on stream!
lorelink.com/systems
System Examples | Lore Link
The premium-quality RPG campaign management tool for Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, Storytellers and Keepers of all types.
lorelink.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Are you wondering what #TTRPG systems Lore Link works with?
Well, pretty much all of them.
Want to see what we've used Lore Link with? Check out our Examples page to see some of the games we've worked with on stream!
lorelink.com/systems
Well, pretty much all of them.
Want to see what we've used Lore Link with? Check out our Examples page to see some of the games we've worked with on stream!
lorelink.com/systems
Reposted by Michael Dowden
thanks to @mrdowden.com and @knightofthewolf.bsky.social for playing a game of Hotzone with me to help test its 3+player mode! youtu.be/j0MvQwvMVyw?... if you’re just learning about this upcoming #boardgame and want to hear it being explained and played by players who have never touched it, tune in
Hotzone: HC SVNT DRACONES board game test THREE PLAYERS 02
YouTube video by Weapons Grade Funk
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
thanks to @mrdowden.com and @knightofthewolf.bsky.social for playing a game of Hotzone with me to help test its 3+player mode! youtu.be/j0MvQwvMVyw?... if you’re just learning about this upcoming #boardgame and want to hear it being explained and played by players who have never touched it, tune in
I had a great time playing this tonight with @knightofthewolf.bsky.social and @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social. It's a solid, strategic board game firmly set in the HSD universe and I would 100% like to play again. Check it out at www.weaponsgradefunk.com
Wanna see some footage of WGF’s new #boardgame Hotzone in #gamedevelopment ? Yeah you do! Cause you’re cool and you like cool things! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Hotzone Development - YouTube
youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I had a great time playing this tonight with @knightofthewolf.bsky.social and @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social. It's a solid, strategic board game firmly set in the HSD universe and I would 100% like to play again. Check it out at www.weaponsgradefunk.com
I'm really looking forward to the Friday stream where we do the actual play. I think it'll be slightly wild as the players get to unleash their chaotic goblins into Santa's village.
Tuesday is for Twitch!
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I'm really looking forward to the Friday stream where we do the actual play. I think it'll be slightly wild as the players get to unleash their chaotic goblins into Santa's village.
Reposted by Michael Dowden
Tuesday is for Twitch!
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
Twitch
Twitch is the world
twitch.tv
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Tuesday is for Twitch!
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
Today, join @mrdowden.com as he plans out Friday's game with the Lore Link Players, when they run through "Crashing Winterfest" by Dump Stat Adventures!
5 PM EST, over on Twitch!
twitch.tv/LoreLinkRPG
If you email me a sales pitch without once talking to me and asking me questions, especially when your pitch includes a fundamental misunderstanding of me, my companies, and what I do, I'm going to disconnect, mark as spam, and never engage again.
December 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If you email me a sales pitch without once talking to me and asking me questions, especially when your pitch includes a fundamental misunderstanding of me, my companies, and what I do, I'm going to disconnect, mark as spam, and never engage again.
Note to all companies who send bills:
STOP sending reminders after I've already scheduled payment!! I literally waste hours every single month re-checking my scheduled payments because every time I get a notification I freak out and think I forgot. Just fucking stop. It's lazy and harmful.
STOP sending reminders after I've already scheduled payment!! I literally waste hours every single month re-checking my scheduled payments because every time I get a notification I freak out and think I forgot. Just fucking stop. It's lazy and harmful.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Note to all companies who send bills:
STOP sending reminders after I've already scheduled payment!! I literally waste hours every single month re-checking my scheduled payments because every time I get a notification I freak out and think I forgot. Just fucking stop. It's lazy and harmful.
STOP sending reminders after I've already scheduled payment!! I literally waste hours every single month re-checking my scheduled payments because every time I get a notification I freak out and think I forgot. Just fucking stop. It's lazy and harmful.
Now that we have @profanity.accountant we need a #SwearJar
December 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Now that we have @profanity.accountant we need a #SwearJar
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Bush
Rammstein
Green Day
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Godsmack
Bush
Rammstein
Green Day
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Godsmack
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Rush
Petra
King’s X
Steve Taylor and Some Band
James Taylor
Rush
Petra
King’s X
Steve Taylor and Some Band
James Taylor
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Tori Amos
They Might Be Giants
Regina Spektor
Marian Call
The Divine Comedy
Tori Amos
They Might Be Giants
Regina Spektor
Marian Call
The Divine Comedy
November 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Bush
Rammstein
Green Day
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Godsmack
Bush
Rammstein
Green Day
Trans Siberian Orchestra
Godsmack
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Since I've started here, I've come across many awesome creators and small business owners. With the holiday shopping season here, I figured it was about damn time to finally make a Starter Pack.
Fuck Amazon. Fuck WalMart. Fuck Target. Shop small if you can.
go.bsky.app/HLRLhda
Fuck Amazon. Fuck WalMart. Fuck Target. Shop small if you can.
go.bsky.app/HLRLhda
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Since I've started here, I've come across many awesome creators and small business owners. With the holiday shopping season here, I figured it was about damn time to finally make a Starter Pack.
Fuck Amazon. Fuck WalMart. Fuck Target. Shop small if you can.
go.bsky.app/HLRLhda
Fuck Amazon. Fuck WalMart. Fuck Target. Shop small if you can.
go.bsky.app/HLRLhda
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
"You will be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"You will be visited by three spirits"
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Reposted by Michael Dowden
Tomorrow on #Twitch!
@mrdowden.com will be welcoming @bargegames.com to the stream to talk about dieselpunk bombers and the broken gnomes who fly them! Join us at 5 PM Eastern to learn about Twenty Flights!
Feel free to pre-game and learn more about it here:
@mrdowden.com will be welcoming @bargegames.com to the stream to talk about dieselpunk bombers and the broken gnomes who fly them! Join us at 5 PM Eastern to learn about Twenty Flights!
Feel free to pre-game and learn more about it here:
Twenty Flights by Barge Games
Post-Fantasy Dieselpunk Bombing RPG
barge-games.itch.io
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tomorrow on #Twitch!
@mrdowden.com will be welcoming @bargegames.com to the stream to talk about dieselpunk bombers and the broken gnomes who fly them! Join us at 5 PM Eastern to learn about Twenty Flights!
Feel free to pre-game and learn more about it here:
@mrdowden.com will be welcoming @bargegames.com to the stream to talk about dieselpunk bombers and the broken gnomes who fly them! Join us at 5 PM Eastern to learn about Twenty Flights!
Feel free to pre-game and learn more about it here:
I think it's important that as an industry we avoid gatekeeping (blocking people from our industry based upon their identity or access to education), but also important that we hold each other accountable for standards, accessible, ethics, and professional responsibility.
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I think it's important that as an industry we avoid gatekeeping (blocking people from our industry based upon their identity or access to education), but also important that we hold each other accountable for standards, accessible, ethics, and professional responsibility.
There's a special place in hell reserved for web developers who break default browser functionality like pasting into input fields or ctrl+clicking on links to open in a new tab.
And the special hell is reserved for those who implement navigation as anything but anchor tags.
#rant #a11y
And the special hell is reserved for those who implement navigation as anything but anchor tags.
#rant #a11y
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Reposted by Michael Dowden
Wait, what?!?!
HOLY CARP WE'RE IN ENTREPENEUR'S AVENUE AT GEN CON?!?!?!
We're starting to get that 2026 calendar filled! Woo hoo!
lorelink.com/community
HOLY CARP WE'RE IN ENTREPENEUR'S AVENUE AT GEN CON?!?!?!
We're starting to get that 2026 calendar filled! Woo hoo!
lorelink.com/community
Community | Lore Link
The premium-quality RPG campaign management tool for Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, Storytellers and Keepers of all types.
lorelink.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wait, what?!?!
HOLY CARP WE'RE IN ENTREPENEUR'S AVENUE AT GEN CON?!?!?!
We're starting to get that 2026 calendar filled! Woo hoo!
lorelink.com/community
HOLY CARP WE'RE IN ENTREPENEUR'S AVENUE AT GEN CON?!?!?!
We're starting to get that 2026 calendar filled! Woo hoo!
lorelink.com/community
Reposted by Michael Dowden
Tuesday is for Twitch!
Today, at 5 PM EST, join @mrdowden.com as he talks to @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social about their games Hc Svnt Dracones and the upcoming Gallerie!
Join us, and learn about the next awesome game you're going to pick up!
Today, at 5 PM EST, join @mrdowden.com as he talks to @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social about their games Hc Svnt Dracones and the upcoming Gallerie!
Join us, and learn about the next awesome game you're going to pick up!
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
twitch.tv
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Tuesday is for Twitch!
Today, at 5 PM EST, join @mrdowden.com as he talks to @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social about their games Hc Svnt Dracones and the upcoming Gallerie!
Join us, and learn about the next awesome game you're going to pick up!
Today, at 5 PM EST, join @mrdowden.com as he talks to @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social about their games Hc Svnt Dracones and the upcoming Gallerie!
Join us, and learn about the next awesome game you're going to pick up!
Can't wait!!
Tomorrow, on Twitch! @mrdowden.com will be welcoming @weaponsgradefunk.bsky.social to the stream to talk about their TTRPGs, Gallerie and HC SVNT DRACONES.
The stream is Tuesday at 5 PM EST, and you can pre-game by checking out their website and their games here:
The stream is Tuesday at 5 PM EST, and you can pre-game by checking out their website and their games here:
Weapons Grade Funk | ttrpg
Weapons Grade Funk makes creative and exciting tabletop games, including the HC SVNT DRACONES tabletop role playing game.
www.weaponsgradefunk.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Can't wait!!
Reposted by Michael Dowden
First snow of the year. So excited!
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
First snow of the year. So excited!
The hour is up! It's here! It's now!
In one hour!
Join the stream as we are joined by @tezrak.bsky.social to run through character creation and game play of his TTRPG, Shadowlight and Personae! @markdc.bsky.social will be running him and the Lore Link Players through the process! It should be fun!
1 PM EST!
Join the stream as we are joined by @tezrak.bsky.social to run through character creation and game play of his TTRPG, Shadowlight and Personae! @markdc.bsky.social will be running him and the Lore Link Players through the process! It should be fun!
1 PM EST!
Twitch
Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
twitch.tv
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The hour is up! It's here! It's now!