Ski-sliding in Satisfactory
Not my usual kind of blog content 1 . My friends and I had some fun this past Christmas doing the Satisfactory advent calendar. After unlocking the snow makers and ...
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6 Months Living in the Tiny Home and Moving Out
The tiny home is off of the rented landlord's property! It was an experience but it was absolutely necessary that I moved out of it after we got a violation notice from the township . I'm just so glad it's all taken care of for now, yay! :3 The tiny home being towed off the property Settling into my new house I've been thinking about all the little things the tiny home did and did not do for me. I…
LUKS Encryption for my Linux Mint user directory
I just setup a new OS and decided I would put /home/cobertos on a separate partition and that I should full disk encrypt it. In my last Linux Mint install, ...
Archiving my OKCupid Data
I recently realized I used OKCupid as far back as 2015. There should be conversations with friends who are no longer alive, messages from me when I was much less ...
I got an Ordinance Violation for my Tiny Home 😬
Well, we got a notice that we're violating ordinances being in the tiny homes (my neighbor and I) on the landlord's property. The notice that was left on the door ...
Tiny Home; Big Door; Computer Room
When I first looked at adding square footage to my tiny building/home thing , what seemed obvious was to enclose the back balcony make it my computing room. I've felt ...
Archiving my Reddit Data before the impending API changes
I've been archiving my Reddit data slowly over the past couple weeks while the API is still freely accessible. It has been very time-consuming because of how awful getting correct/complete ...
Working in the Snow
Not sure why but I don't mind working in the snow. It's really quiet and pretty and it makes my brain happy uwu
I bought a (small) building!
Through some timely events I ended up buying a small building through a University of Michigan (U of M) Property Disposition auction bid! My friend Reen tipped me off that they were getting rid of an entire building and I got super curious. I went to see it in person and it wasn't bad! just incomplete. Checking out the tiny home for the first time - My friend is in front of it for scale x3 I was…
Using a persperctive camera in place of an orthographic camera
Interesting that using a perspective camera from very far away (so large distance to scene but low FOV) is basically an orthographic camera. It looks nice having a top down ...
Exporting my Nintendo Switch app activity
I was decommissioning my Nintendo Switch (I just bought a Steam Deck :3) and realized it would be nice to get some of the activity data off of it. I ...
Auction sites (US and MI specific)
A list of auction and related sites I try to keep an eye on. Many specific to Michigan but some that are US national. Michigan MI BidCorp - Mostly police, ...
Extracting a .unitypackage without Unity3D
It looks like all the libraries that currently exist to extract .unitypackage files are broken/don't exist anymore (or at least the ones on Unity Answers). So I made a new ...
LTU Forge Global Games Jam
Participated in my first games jam a couple weeks ago, the LTU Forge Global Games Jam . Super fun, a little stressful at times, but it was so exciting to ...
ConEmu and cmder fix for saving current working directory
ConEmu and tools built on it like cmder are awesome for Windows development. I can't see myself ever going back to conhost.exe with its lack of color, unicode-support, buffered-scrolling, tabs, ...
Vue.js render() and $slots; Corrupt DOM
Just ran into an issue today when making a component with a custom render() function and messing around with vnodes passed in via $slots . A seemingly simple template produced ...
Chemistory Level and Net Code
Chemistory over the past couple weeks got a few new features, the biggest being an actual level and client/server networking code (or at least the start of it). There's a ...
A Simpler Blender Development Environment
After accidentally running Blender from a native console, I realized a much easier way to setup Blender for iterating over features/bug development. My old Blender Python module reloader was becoming ...
Chemistory Minimap WIP
Chemistory minimap for subway including character marker. Subway lines are loaded via SVGLoader to allow for greater customization and color/animation in the future. Next update should have some more level ...
HelloWorld Games Jam
My current company, HelloWorld, hosted a small games jam after hours. Over the course of 5 days, James (another dev at HW) and I put together two small concepts utilizing ...
Bobskater - A Python obfuscation Library
Recently I had the need to obfuscate/minify some Python files before I distributed them. Coming from the Javascript world of ES6 where transpilers and processors are plentiful, I figured there ...
Friends make weird noises
Made this in like 3 hours. Ripped the audio from a video my friend sent me and it felt like a good fit. See the Pen eLBJWv by cobertos ( ...
Cubecus for Blender is here!
Cubecus is here! After a long time coming (4 years on and off), I've gotten my Blender level design add-on into a releasable state (even though in alpha and with ...
Importing and Reloading Python Modules in Blender
Python in Blender can be tiring. A simple problem becomes an arduous trek through docs, examples, and sometimes the C API to find the Blender way to write given Python ...
Loading Screens
I probably put way too much into this, but I really love progress animations where objects reify themselves from wireframe to whole.
Automated Memory Leak Testing in the Browser
Large single page web applications have a disadvantage over multi-page applications in that no page reload occurs. This means memory leaks are able to cause more performance problems in single ...
Compiling Blender as a Python Module for Windows 10 x64 using Visual Studio
If you want to do unit tests of Blender Python code, it might be to your benefit to not startup Blender every time you want to run them but to ...
Projected Balance Calculator Pt Deux
I updated the balance projection calculator thingy a week or so ago but I thought I'd write about it. Here's a demo image: Graph of > 1 year worth of ...
Projected Balance Calculator
I always felt that if I was able to see how much money I would have in the future I could more accurately save, spend, and make bill payments instead ...
Movin' Day
So I moved from Tumblr to Ghost. Tumblr (the platform, not the community) is absolute garbage. I actually like the community: tons of fandoms, great art, weird memes, and so ...
My last full song for a while
My last full song for a while, if not ever. Making music just doesn’t have the drive it used to for me (though playing music on the other hand…). I ...
Some more rendering stuff
Continuing from my last rendering post, the spider mini boss in “Quackventure” shoots these little energy balls at the player. I added the energy ball after the render in Paint.NET ...
Another 4am Blender night...
This is a product of another 4am night playing around working with Blender’s Cycles renderer for some art for a song. My friend ended up giving me some models from ...
Why Python is so exciting for me
I’m in love with Python . Like madly in love. If I wasn’t pretty crazy about this one girl right now I’m sure that I’d probably start hanging out with ...
How to climb stairs as a Rigidbody (in Unity3D)
So you want to add some stairs to your game? Great! Adding stairs in level design adds more vertical variety to your levels. Or perhaps your game is based on ...