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Victoria 2 is a 2010 grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive.

For the past few years, I've been using Obsidian as my primary note-taking app.

A persistent and annoying issue affects Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lightsail instances: they shut down seemingly randomly after only a few hours.

Found at mystery.knightlab.com, the SQL Murder Mystery game is a fun little exercise in using SQL to solve a murder mystery.

Let's say you're in a software engineering team with daily stand-ups and a sprint board with tickets up.

Imagine you have a complex multi-faceted GraphQL query: query(id: String) { thing(id) { foo { ... } bar { ... } } } In some GraphQL resolvers, this might be transformed into SQL queries on a database like so: SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id = $id; SELECT * FROM

Say you have a Swagger or OpenAPI specification like so: openapi: 3.0.3 info: title: foobar version: 1.0.0 paths: /foo: get: tags: - foo responses: '200': description: Success /bar: get: tags: - bar responses: '200': description: Success If you wanted to…

lsof -i : 8081 then kill [process pid]

Despite clearly not being a game engine, ReactJS has a lot of potential for being used to create simple HTML based games - in fact, one of the first use cases React introduces to you in its tutorials is using the React framework to create Tic Tac Toe.

The GMTK game jam was held between June 11th and June 13th this year.

I think every software developer, or even everyone entirely, should have a personal website.

RSS feeds are a beautiful and wonderful open standard that anyone can, and should, utilise on their blogs, websites, or anything else.

As coronavirus destroyed the world and sent everyone into social isolation, I decided to utilise the time indoors to learn Xamarin, a Microsoft .NET framework that allows you to create cross-platform Apps easily.

1.7 million Australians are unaware that they may already have kidney disease?

Welcome to my new website, this is it.

The lifespan of a floppy disk is 20 years, the lifespan of a magnetic tape 10 years, and the lifespan of some hard disks is only 5 years.

In the March Southampton Code Dojo, I was tasked with creating fireworks within the 2 hour time limit and, for a change from seeing the usual JavaScript or Python entries, I decided to do this using Unity.

Over the past weekend, I participated in a Game Jam hosted at the University of Southampton during which I helped develop from scratch a game in Unity with four others.

In the February Code Dojo, Jemma and I made an ASCII art converter in Java that takes an image as input and converts it into a text document which, when zoomed out far enough, imitates the original image.

At the University of Southampton Global Game Jam 2016 event, I helped develop an isometric real time strategy town management game where you must balance resource management with your relationship to the gods.

After Googling this question and being disappointed at how much work was needed to find a good answer, the only useful post was this old post[1] for Word 2007, here is a definitive blog post about the topic.