Personal projects and ramblings from a software engineer.
I recently deployed allupfpv.com . It’s a very useful (IMO) part-picker-like application for building FPV drones. The goal is to make it easier and efficient to select parts for hypothetical builds and get an idea of the flight characteristics the drone may have. It currently only supports GetFPV’s catalog, but I want to add more stores later. Price and stock info is updated nightly,…
Cover art by Juan Carlos Barquet, published by AK Press. Used here for commentary purposes; not covered by this site’s CC BY-SA license. “A Country of Ghosts” by Margaret Killjoy is an interesting novel that speculates how an anarchist society might function and defend itself against aggression. I’m not exactly sure what genre to classify it as… fantasy? speculative?…
SurrealEngine is a re-implementation of the Unreal Engine 1 that I discovered about a month ago. I’ve been using the project as an opportunity to learn about game engines, refresh my C++ skills, and contribute a little bit to the project along the way. It’s currently able to “run” Unreal Tournament, Unreal, and Deus Ex. There’s a long way to go before they are really…
I just wanted to shout out the Sightless Scribbles blog post, “On Access Trauma” . I think it offers a good glimpse into everyday things people with different abilities have to deal with. For instance, I had no idea that PDFs are often inaccessible. It also introduced me to the idea of Interdependance Care . I thought this part was insightful: “…through our valourising of…
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead Well… I fell down a rabbit hole a couple weeks ago. I stumbled upon the IndieWeb while I was looking for possible solutions to the enshittification of platforms, search, and seemingly everything . From what I’ve seen so far, rhe IndieWeb kind of reminds me of the early world wide web (i.e. a web of interconnected documents; not…