Curiosity Killed the Cat

When was the last time you really asked about something you didn’t know. When was the last time you looked at a new programming language, book series, or somewhere you hadn’t been before. When was the last time you actually ventured beyond your bounds because you wanted to know what was out there?

Keyboards, The Bottleneck to the Digital World

Keyboards are the bottleneck to getting things done, communicating, and existing effectively in the modern world. Having a good keyboard that lets you type well and effectively is paramount. The Wren is a standout keyboard in a crowded market - and it’s open source!

Be Brief and To The Point

Self-help books are comically verbose, and usually unhelpful. They’re not badly written so to speak, but if they were maximally helpful they would be shorter, and more direct.

I speak unapologetically: I’ve seen bad work from insistence on using “cute tricks.”

Abuse an integer overflow.

Rely on floating point weirdness.

Use JAVA- oh wait no, well …use Kotlin?

Be stupid about the code you write. Cute tricks weaken your craft, and sow regret. By focusing your mind on impactful code you build more and better software. Hopefully, you’ll write code so stupid that future you will be able to read it and know exactly what it does (and why).

AOC 2022, wait what?

That’s right, I didn’t forget to publish this 2 years late; I’m actually going backward in time. I’m tackling the previous year’s AOC to get to know a new language.

RUST

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Fantasy Unlivable

Most fantasy worlds aren’t set up to be post-apocalyptic wastelands. Even the ones that are post-apocalypses are more barren than you might expect.

Happy New Year!

This was the year, and I’m happy to report it went pretty well

Put Your Stuff Together

It’s a new year, so it’s time to do some new year’s resolutions. Mine is to colocate my unit tests!

It’s not something like

Put your Unit Tests right next to the thing they test. There’s no better way to do it

I’ve been writing a series on some of the quirks of the game Monster Hunter: World. I really like fighting the monsters, tracking them, learning new strategies, and finally learning their patterns. I like reading about the ecology between the monsters and how they interact. I also Like playing with my friends.