Brain Dump

Not surprisingly, the kids are interested in the game projects I’m building for class.

Zoom has acquired Keybase.

Debugging in Lua has been a strange experience for me.

Kdenlive is a powerful video editor that I find hard to discover features in.

Turning in assignments for Games 50 requires that each project be pushed to a separate branch on a github-hosted repository.

One of the great improvements that landed around Fedora 29 or so was the Linux Vendor Firmware Service.

Installing Aseprite on Fedora 31 Since I’m trying my hand at some game projects, I need to edit sprites.

Working through a class at the same time as I have my kids doing schoolwork at home has its benefits.

While catching up on the news after wrapping up my “flappy bird” clone project (more on that tomorrow, maybe) I ran across a tool I’d not heard of before.

Because of the class I signed up for, I find myself needing to record and upload screencasts in order to turn in assignments.

Harvard has made several online courses available free of charge, for the time being.

I’ve been doing a couple of online classes recently, and it’s nice to be able to stash things remotely for a variety of reasons.

Reverse-Proxying HTTPS Traffic to a Server in my Basement Using Caddy and Wireguard I’ve been experimenting with new web services lately, some of which I’d like to open up to my mobile devices.

Unknown (I don’t do politics.

Using Google Sheets from Python The API for Google’s spreadsheets has seen a few revisions now, so there’s a ton of stale information floating around.

Anbox is a containerized environment for Linux desktops that can run Android applications as if they were native.

Earlier in the week a Pinebook pro found its way to my doorstep.

I’ve been tempted on several occasions to convert my VM zoo from VMWare over to KVM.

I’m not really a hardware person.

kitty is my current favorite terminal emulator for desktop Linux.

I used to be a die-hard, very happy Mac user.

This is probably all obvious to any “real” FreeBSD people.