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July 11, 2023 | 🎮 Pillars of Eternity Complete, Valheim Next Last night I finished Pillars of Eternity.

July 09, 2023 | ⛺ Camping at Dashpoint State Park Camping at Dashpoint State Park in Federal Way, Washington. 2025-08-26 Update When updating the meta data tags on this post, I thought it would be worth pointing out that at the time I wrote this post it w…

June 20, 2023 | 🏆 3D Printing a Bluey Trophy I used a local library's maker space to make a custom trophy for my friend.

June 13, 2023 | 🧠 Nature abhors a Hypecycle Vacuum Here we are on the backside of the hype cycle for crypto, blockchain, social media, sharing-economy, 5G, and half a dozen other internet-enabled "disruptive" technologies.

June 06, 2023 | 💀 'Cursed Knowledge' A concept I occasionally come back to is what I refer to as "Cursed Knowledge".

June 02, 2023 | 📊 Personal Productivity Charts with Python [!

May 27, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Dijkstra Maps TIL about "Dijkstra Maps" TLDR: a "Dijkstra Map" is a map of the the "costs" (time/effort) associated with traversing each node/edge of a space to a specified location.

May 25, 2023 | 💡 TIL, Rust, & DoubleLoop Updates to TIL re: TIL customized feed.njk to only add /posts/ entries to the rss feed with the following 'if' statement in the logic that iterates over the entries.

May 17, 2023 | 🏃‍♂️ I'm not a runner, but I run.

May 14, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Snoqualmie Falls & Hydroelectric Power TIL Today I visited the Snoqualmie Falls in addition to the scenic view of the waterfall situated below "One Eyed Jack's" of Twin Peaks fame, I was pleased to learn about the hydroelectric power…

May 13, 2023 | 💡 TIL: DNS Resolver in Python TIL re: Coding An example toy dns resolver can be implemented in Python.

May 12, 2023 | ⌚️ Fitbit Charge 5 & Uses Page Update Uses Today I received a Fitbit Charge 5.

May 08, 2023 | 💡 Language Efficiency & Liar's Dividend TIL re: Coding: Efficiency of Programming Languages Sometimes I wonder how much faster our computers would be if folks were writing in lower level programming languages.

April 28, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Phatic TIL The word "phatic": denoting or relating to language used for general purposes of social interaction, rather than to convey information or ask questions.

April 19, 2023 | 🎮 myhouse.wad & 💡 Synthetic Helium /now/ Played myhouse.wd. 9/10 If you like custom wads for the og Doom and Doom2, then you may really like "myhouse.wad": https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/134292-myhousewad/ make sure you have the la…

April 18, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete Magic the Gathering is Turing Complete I came across a Hacker News post that discussed the Prolog programming language.

April 17, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Ray-casting, Ray-tracing, and BSP Ray-casting, Ray-tracing, and Binary Space Partitions In the process of creating a Doom Wad, I've been thinking about customizing some enemy AI behavior that would require teleporting a monster to a

April 08, 2023 | 💡 TIL: Emergence TIL there is a systematic study of the concept of Emergence in the general of non-domain specific domains, and as a bonus, it comes from another digital gardener.

April 07, 2023 | 💡 Eudaimonia, Ikigai, and the Hierarchy of Fulfillment [!

February 23, 2023 | 🪴 Ultima Underworld and Affine Texture Mapping [!