Gdc Adventures
I’ve been in the industry a long time but I have to say working on Fall Guys was a dream come true in that we didn’t predict how big it would become and it smashed our wildest expectations.
Edwin Jones
My personal website & blog
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Steam Powered - Make your own Linux based gaming console
I’ve been mulling moving over to Linux full time for personal gaming use for quite a few years but since I got my Steam Deck last year, I’ve realised it’s perfectly viable now thanks to Proton. Problem is, the Steam Deck isn’t quite powerful enough for my 4K TV in the living room and Valve don’t actually release a desktop version of SteamOS anymore. After a bit of searching I found that most of…
Games Boy - Write your own Game Boy games in C
The game boy was my first personal home console back in the early 90s and perhaps the console that cemented my love of games in general. I’ve always dreamed of writing a game for it and now it seems I (sort of) have.
SSH Agent Man - How does SSH agent work?
I’ve been using SSH for quite a while now and have used SSH keys regularly to authenticate myself with a variety of systems both at work and at home. I historically have been a bit lazy and avoided using passwords for my private keys to avoid having to remember said password and type it in every time. Eventually I learned of SSH Agent - a tool that allows you to type your SSH password in once per…
Cleaning up my site
Since I started my own blog around 10 years ago to learn HTML and web tech in general, a lot has changed. I originally relied heavily on external tech such as facebook comments, google analytics and disqus to host comments and track activity on my page. Sadly, things haven’t exactly gone well in terms of privacy on the internet for a variety of reasons and I think it’s time to clean this page up.
Make your own Raspberry Pi webcam
2020 has been an interesting year to say the least, but one of the oddest side effects of coronavirus is the fact that USB webcams have been much harder to come by and generally cost a lot more than they used to. The oft lauded Logitech c920 goes for the best part of £100 if not more, and that’s if you can find one in stock.
Powerful Powershell Passwords
Tl;dr - For all of you doing some googling to find out how to make a secure password with any modern powershell version (i.e. Powershell 5 and above) the code snippet you want is at the bottom of this article.
Write your own browser extension
In my day to day work I’m often reading a lot of database records that are sorted by time, usually using unix timestamps. The problem I usually have with this is when I view these records via some sort of web portal the numbers are a bit meaningless - I can’t tell by eye if 1575468821 is an older date than 1575598821 without a little reading. Realising that I could do with a tool that…
Python Packaging is in a Pickle
This post is my attempt to summarize my learnings about the basics of how to manage python packages with different tools and commands. I’ve spent a while collecting this information, hopefully it helps a few people searching for the same thing via google too.
How I stopped worrying and learned to love emulation
UPDATE 2022: This post has now been rewritten for issue 54 of Wireframe magazine and is available here on page 48.