Mon Nov 13
Back in the day, when I was daily using scala. I truly enjoyed the client ‘gitter’ for communicating to all the cool folks over in the scala ecosystem. So today I was having some nostalgia for my old friends and decided to fire up my old client. Rather than being greeted with the usual rooms, turns out it was...
event, Manorhamilton and Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland ||| I was invited to programme events for Designweek 2023 in Leitrim by Creative Heartlands and Leitrim Design House. The programme included a one-day workshop on artist-led servers by Rotterdam-based collective varia and a panel discussion on myth and Irish...
Having big and interesting game worlds has been a holy grail of games since the beginning. In the early years, technical constraints meant that big worlds were simply infeasible, without heavy use of procedural generation - Elite in 1984 for example boasted thousands of planets - but nowadays, the main constraint is...
I stumbled upon the album Tekkno by Electric Callboy, formerly known as Eskimo Callboy, while looking for new metalcore music. After having been treated with ten absolute bangers of sheer genre-mashup-madness somewhere between metalcore, techno, and Schlager music, this is my album of the year 2023. It’s one of...
It’s been a while, huh? It’s foolish of me to run away from this website since it always makes me feel better but once every other year I do. It all seems useless. Blogging, I mean. The pursuit of self improvement and reflection without financial reward? Are you kidding me? In this economy? Jokes aside, I do tend to...
November 14, 2023 [!example] Topics: TIL (Today I learned) TLDR: I fixed my laptop screen despite expecting to make things worse, wasting time, and forcing myself to pre-emptively buy a replacement laptop. It wasn't hard, technical (the solution was simple enough my toddler could have done it), or time consuming....
I invite you to try one of the most life-altering experiments I have taken up in the past year. It is simple, yet life changing in so many ways: In all of your human interactions, look into the eyes of the other person, and begin to see yourself in Him. Not just figuratively. Look into the soul of “another” and...