Game by David Szymanski, published 2022 Movie written, directed, and starring Mark "Markiplier" Fischbach, released 2026 New work meeting background just dropped! Invited to view the movie at Pop's with Phil and Sarah, I crammed the game it…
Released in 2023, played on Linux in 2024. Mush your dog sled across cruel Arctic wastelands, driven onwards by a brisk and intense companion, who hired you to take him back to some remote spot, where it becomes apparent he had some sort of…
Directed and written by John Hughes, 1986. IMDB So, way back in my teen years, we had a VHS tape of this, which friends and I played and played and played, probably racking up more rewatches than any other movie in my life. So it was a plea…
by Richard McGuire (the 304 page graphic novel, not the original 6 page comic.) If you dug Understanding Comics then you will probably like this. Every panel is a view of the exact same space, occupied by a modest living room in our time, b…
I have some folders of .jpg images that make up a comic. I want to convert them into a PDF to read on my tab and other devices, and import into my Calibre bookshelf. The versatile ImageMagick has a 'convert' command that seems to handle it:…
Inspired by a woodland hike under the first blue skies we've seen this year, I got home and showed the kiddo how to draw an SVG tree with recursive functions in Python. At first the generated shape looked kinda lumpy and uninspiring, but it…
Code in Place 2025 has ended. I participated as a Section Leader, tutoring a small group of beginner programmers through learning basic coding in Python. We covered fundamental programming - variables and loops and conditionals and data-str…
I've been doing some programming tests and puzzles while job hunting lately. One quick challenge was quite nice, reminding me a bit of Project Euler questions, and I nerd sniped myself into doing a 2nd pass at it here. Produce a Python func…
Blackout and All Clear are two novels, planned as one, but which grew out of control. They form the latest and most ambitious entry in the delightful Oxford Time Travel Series, in which Oxford University historians of 2060 perform routine o…
A website dedicated to oneself has been described as the greatest act of hubris. Welcome aboard! Made out of meat. Class III sentience. Singular biological manifestation. Mortal. Human. He/him. Computer programming sparks joy. Linux lover.
envsubst is an executable you likely already have on your PATH (part of the gettext package, often installed with dev packages), which is a convenient way to replace $VAR or ${VAR} style environment variables with their values. This allows
Loving the new keyboard, an Epomaker Galaxy80 with Feker Marble White switches. I compiled an improved manual for it here, which merges the English section of the official manual with other sources, rearranging the info in a way that makes