Ross Karchner

It’s nice top see that Sound Blocks shipped!

Currently listening: All of the Marvels by Douglas Wolk 📚

Today is my first day as an Ad Hoc employee.

Finished Listening: War for Eternity by Benjamin R.

Hello from Camp T.

Finished reading: Hidden Systems by Dan Nott 📚

Finished reading: Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures by Kel Mcdonald 📚 An excellent graphic journey through all sorts of could’ve-beens: including Y2K hysteria, decentralized wind power, robot dogs, virtual pop stars, a mechanical duck that po…

Currently listening: War for Eternity by Benjamin R.

Currently reading: Failure to Launch: A Tour of Ill-Fated Futures by Kel Mcdonald 📚

I’ve been mucking around with my operating system setup for reasons too tedious to describe here.

Like I said, I don’t love my latest game, but it feels good to add something to the /games page after six months.

I’m not that proud of The Invisible Alligator in its current form, but the Godot Wild Jam 82 deadline is here, and it’s nice to ship a game after almost 6 months of not doing much gamedev.

Finished reading: Drawing Blood by Kevin Eastman 📚 Confession: I picked this up thinking it was non-fiction and that Shane Bookman was a real author.

One of the nice things about going to events again is seeing the fancy offices people work in.

Currently reading: Drawing Blood by Kevin Eastman 📚

I know, the internet doesn’t need more words about AI, but not addressing my own usage here feels like an omission.

It turns out that echolocation has definitely been done before.

It wasn’t that difficult to adapt my little loop programming system to 3D.

TIL I have an IMDB page, from supporting Adult Rappers on kickstarter 10 years ago.

The main DC Tech Events site is generated by a custom static generator, in three phases: Loop through the groups directory and download a local copy of every calendar.

I’m at the AWS DC summit today and tomorrow.

Rest in peace Bill Atkinson.

I want to apply for a job, not join your “talent community”

Some progress on the “beat game” remake (for the moment, called “Loopnik”).

My first game jam entry was beat game, submitted to the So Bad It’s Good Game Jam in July 2023.

Finished reading: The Notebook by Roland Allen 📚

An unpolished but challenging turn-based puzzle, about an alligator sneaking around and eating ducks.

OK– I feel pretty good about the state of DC Tech Events.

My Dr’s office has a small claim to fame.

Because you, as a person who reads blogs, are dear to me– you get to be among the first to know that the new DC Tech Events site is live.

Currently reading: The Notebook by Roland Allen 📚

10 years ago, I shut down the most popular thing I’d ever made (on my own).

There’s no escaping Microsoft Copilot

I passed the AWS test today, so I can continue to be “AWS Certified Security – Specialty” until 2028.

Abandoned for now: Mister X: The Archives by Dean Motter 📚 The core concept is really cool, but after a few chapters I found myself not really caring about any of the characters or where the story was going.

I think I’m just not going to write about what’s happening at my job again until there’s some definitive resolution.

I added an update to this morning’s post: the RIF is once again on hold.

update: things are on hold again.

Currently reading: Mister X: The Archives by Dean Motter 📚

Finished reading: Frank Miller’s Ronin (2019 Edition) by Frank Miller 📚

I passed the Security+ exam yesterday: Tip: if one of the options is “risk register”, the answer is probably “risk register”.

Currently reading: Frank Miller’s Ronin (2019 Edition) by Frank Miller 📚

Finished Listening: Frostbite by Nicola Twilley 📚

Finished reading: Berlin by Jason Lutes 📚

I’m still employed (and even doing some work, given that FISMA-related work counts as “statutory duties”).

Today, with my family, I watched the first episode of Human Footprint, which is about invasive species.

The kiddo and I worked through this Godot Reinforcement Learning tutorial, and (after some troubleshooting to get onnx to install) it worked!

Currently listening: Frostbite by Nicola Twilley 📚 Respect and fear the cold chain.

Does that mean there are more marshmallow butt games?

Currently reading: Berlin by Jason Lutes 📚