Playing Wizard with Computers

Motivation Wanted to participate in B&W Jam I was in a bit of a slump. I wanted to make a game for the B&W Jam, but I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to work on. I wanted to make use of Godot’s fantastic UI support and this stylish Ornate Pixel Art theme. I’d also decided to use Godot so I could get experience with working with an engine (instead of writing my own stuff), but my heart just wasn’t in it....

There are a lot of ideas that I run across in my daily life that I find interesting. This is a place for me to write them down and later share them with the world. Zed Text Editor https://zed.dev/ This was an episode of the source graph podcast talking with the author of tree-sitter, a library for incrementally parsing code. He and two others are now working on a text editor in Rust called Zed....

I’ve had this blog for a while, but I haven’t updated it often. I haven’t figured out a good way to motivate myself to write blog posts. I’m going to try to get myself working on this again, but this time I’ve got a better idea of what I want to get out of it: more social interaction, and specifically of the nerdy kind. One of the realizations I’ve had is that I’m highly motivated by people responding to something I’ve made, whether it’s writing, a game, artwork, or just a freaking chat message....

Printing is one of those things that seems like it should be easy but never is. Anyway, I recently had to get my laptop to connect to a network printer and I want to write the process down in case I need to do it again. The following instructions are written for Arch Linux and assume you have a AUR helper (like yay) installed. ...

I've tried many different editors in my time as a programmer. At first it was Notepad++, while I was still using Windows. Eventually I moved to linux, and used GEdit and Nano. Atom, an electron based editor with plugins was next. All the plugins you could install were awesome. However, I quickly began to chafe at the idea of using electron. It was slow and memory-intensive. Why did a text editor need an entire web browser to run?...