July 26, 2023 | 👩‍💻 Write An App: From 'Coder' to 'Programmer' re: Coding This Post is part of the Blog Chain: Write An App (2023) Blog-Chain. I've begun a journey: For a long time, I've been a coder, but not a programmer (see: Coding). One of my goals for this year is to build an app. Nothing useful, fancy, or...

July 12, 2023 | 🎂 A Birthday Cake from The 7th Guest [!example] Topics: Video Games Recently I ordered a cake for my best friend. I'd never ordered a cake before. I was inspired to order him a cake that is a based on a cake from a video game he and I played in our youth: The 7th Guest. The 7th Guest could be...

July 11, 2023 | 🎮 Pillars of Eternity Complete, Valheim Next Last night I finished Pillars of Eternity. The game has a great story, main plot, and sub plots. Admittedly I was confused about the main arc until the end, but I enjoyed all the milestones in it. The conclusion to the game makes me motivated to play the...

July 09, 2023 | ⛺ Camping at Dashpoint State Park Camping at Dashpoint State Park in Federal Way, Washington. 2025-08-26 Update When updating the meta data tags on this post, I thought it would be worth pointing out that at the time I wrote this post it was mostly a test of writing and publishing to my blog from my...

June 20, 2023 | 🏆 3D Printing a Bluey Trophy I used a local library's maker space to make a custom trophy for my friend. This is the first time I had anything 3d printed and was pleased with how easy it was to find 3d models, get help from a local library's maker space to get them 3d printed, and the quality of the...

June 13, 2023 | 💨 Nature abhors a Hypecycle Vacuum Here we are on the backside of the hype cycle for crypto, blockchain, social media, sharing-economy, 5G, and half a dozen other internet-enabled "disruptive" technologies. But nature abhors a vacuum. Power Vacuums, literal vacuums, apparently functional ones in my...

June 06, 2023 | 💀 'Cursed Knowledge' A concept I occasionally come back to is what I refer to as "Cursed Knowledge". Maybe there is already a term for it, or maybe a better term can be made, but this is what I call it. Its the idea of "Once you see it, you can't unsee it", and the converse of "Ignorance is Bliss"....

June 02, 2023 | 📊 Personal Productivity Charts with Python [!topics] Topics: Coding, GTD Personal Productivity Charts Spent entirely too long to make this chart to look at how effective my GTD workflows are. I exported data from my to-do task manager (Gqueues) to csv See Using Gqueues for GTD for my GTD methodology....

May 27, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Dijkstra Maps TIL about "Dijkstra Maps" TLDR: a "Dijkstra Map" is a map of the the "costs" (time/effort) associated with traversing each node/edge of a space to a specified location. Commonly applied to video games pathfinding AI (eg Dijkstra's). Neat use cases in adding factors to influence...

May 25, 2023 | 💡 TIL, Rust, & DoubleLoop Updates to TIL re: TIL customized feed.njk to only add /posts/ entries to the rss feed with the following 'if' statement in the logic that iterates over the entries. Hobbies re: Coding in Rust The last week, I've been reading a lot about the Rust programming language. I think...

May 17, 2023 | 🏃‍♂️ I'm not a runner, but I run. I don't call myself a "runner" because I feel like it would imply I care about it as part of my identity, community membership, or virtue signaling. But I do run. Sometimes I run well for myself and I'm proud of it. Starting the year running 11 minute miles I'm happy...

May 14, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Snoqualmie Falls & Hydroelectric Power TIL Today I visited the Snoqualmie Falls in addition to the scenic view of the waterfall situated below "One Eyed Jack's" of Twin Peaks fame, I was pleased to learn about the hydroelectric power plant. When standing at the bottom of the penstocks looking...