FrozenChoco

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Tax Season

TurboTax is a crappy piece of software.

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Linux on Mac via UTM

Apple Silicon, UTM, and working with multiarch.

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Airborne Kingdom

A city-building with an ending? This unique game is worth your time and sleep.

Media Format

Observing Live Network Traffic with Wireshark

Wireshark + tcpdump + ssh = inspect network traffic live

C/C++ Notes

C++ Regex Helper

You write std::regex that works the first try? Well, I am not nearly as good as you, and I find it helpful to iterate my patterns until I get it right: // compile with `g++ -std=c++20 -o regex-sandbox regex-sandbox.cpp` #include <iostream> #include <regex>

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Hi-Fi Rush

Hi-Fi Rush is a great game with much style and character.

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Pikmin Bloom

For a game that counts things, Pikmin Bloom sure is bad at doing it.

SDL2 and FFmpeg on Apple Silicon

Recently I wrote some code to validate a bitstream. My co-worker told me he had various problems playing it using FFmpeg, and asked me if I want to have a go at it. That sounds like a fun little side project, so I decided to do the exercise on the

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Living with Tesla Model 3

After 80,000 miles, my Tesla Model 3 had repairs that I never imagined I had to do.

Toys

Backyard Climbing Wall

Putting a climbing wall in your backyard is possible sourcing all parts from the Internet, but it is quite a bit of work.

Roku IDK

Roku has released a development kit allowing hobbyists to build their own applications to side-load on a production Roku box.

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Ethernet Cables and IP Cameras

Sharing my experience making the cables for home surveillance.

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Synology NAS Web Station, Reverse Proxy and mod_rewrite: Manipulating URLs

Using synology NAS web station, reverse proxy, and mod_rewrite to generate specific URLs.

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Setting Up Synology NAS

Documenting setting up a new Synology DS-220+ NAS with Ghost Blog and Docker.

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Her Story

Her Story demonstrates an interesting and immersive storytelling technique, only possible through an interactive game.

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Affinity Designer

Affinity Designer does not have a blend tool to interpolate between objects.

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EXAPUNKS

EXAPUNK is a fun puzzle games, especially if you enjoy programming: I am writing C++ at work by day, programming fake assembly at night.

Build

Makefile

Notes about Makefiles: rules, dependency tracking, conditionals.

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Hades

Hades is a great game everyone should play and shows how important it is to give player choices.

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Calligraphy Ink 38

Sharing custom Procreate brush for calligraphy.

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FFMPEG Command Line Recipes

ffmpeg command line recipes to cut, extract, transcode videos and more!

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Linux on Mac

This link is all you need: How to Install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro - LaptopNinjaUbuntu on your MacBook can give your aging Apple product new life. Learn how to install Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro by following this guide.LaptopNinjaMatt Garrett [https://laptop.ninja/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-macbook-pro/]My Notes I installed

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Shapez.io

I've joined the party late. For $5 on Steam you can play this accessible game with purest game play and ample amount of challenge, but all at a pace that you decide. Game Mechanic At the very basic level, your task is to assemble and paint complex shapes

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Tesla Solar Roof Install Journal

Notes and rants about my experiences with Tesla energy products: solar panels, roof, and Powerwall batteries.

Build

More GitLab Continuous Integration

How to trigger CI only when source code changes.