Hi! I’m an old reclusive Gen-X software developer who writes twice a month about games or projects I’m working on or what’s happening in the world. Not AI-generated since 2012, despite what ZeroGPT says. Except the images. All the images are AI-generated now because it’s way too much of a hassle to find images for blog posts.
Books Yo
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Of course I’m writing a web app to manage my list of books to read. Doesn’t everyone? (1109 words.)
Flipping The AWS Switch - Quest for the One Blog, Part 15
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Tonight I’m going to start “flipping the switch” to host the blog entirely in AWS. (344 words.)
A New Reading Process
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Around the start of every new year, there’s a collective burst of enthusiasm around humanity for trying new things. I, for example, am trying to devise a new reading strategy. (1133 words.)
Observing The NFT Wars
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The first post of the year is about … sigh … NFTs. (954 words.)
Wheel of Time - S1E8: The Eye of the World
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The final episode of the first season ends with a bang. (2169 words.)
Advent of Code 2021, The Dark Side
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I got something out of Advent of Code 2021, but I didn’t like how it affected me. (2032 words.)
Wheel of Time - S1E7: The Dark Within The Ways
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The Ways and Fal Dara and The Warder and The Wisdom. (1016 words.)
Wheel of Time - S1E6: The Flame of Tar Valon
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An episode full of Aes Sedai politics. (1203 words.)
Advent of Code 2021
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I’m working on this year’s Advent of Code programming puzzles, something that’s new to me. (2417 words.)
FFXIV - Shadowbringers 5.5/5, Death Unto Dawn
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Notes on the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers Patch 5.5 and 5.55 Content, Death Unto Dawn, which I finished more than two months ago at the time of this publication. (919 words.)
Wheel of Time - S1E5: Blood Calls Blood
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This week’s episode was less of a spectacle. (1295 words.)
FFXIV - Shadowbringers 5.4, Futures Rewritten
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Notes on the Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers Patch 5.4 Content, Futures Rewritten, which I finished well over two months ago at the time of this publication. (774 words.)
Wheel of Time - S1E4: The Dragon Reborn
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Episode 4, The Dragon Reborn is the first great episode of the series. (2504 words.)
Disco Elysium
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Disco Elysium is one of those award-winning games I bought mainly because it was on sale and I heard it was award-winning. (731 words.)
Comment Server - Quest For The One Blog, Part 14
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I may have setup a working Remark42 comment server? (714 words.)
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