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1. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed Only one book has ever grabbed my attention on the first line. That book, of course, being The Gunslinger. The line, unsurprisingly, is the one above. I read the whole series, and I can understand why people have mixed feelings. It’s a weird series, other King stories get mixed up in the weird world presented. But I…
0. Forward The bulk of this post was written during the peak of the cultural exchange. So if you’re about to say “ok, but it’s not that way now” then just hold your horses, we’ll talk about that at the end. 1. The Event I opened Twitter to look to see what a couple of my Twitter friends were up to and see if there was anything interesting to comment on. I do that…
1. Programmer Art I’m a back-end developer. If you have come to a stream you will either already know this, or be surprised by this. If the latter you probably just think I’m a really bad developer. I have spent most of my time making things that take command line arguments or stdin inputs. Some of the things I have worked on have a web UI, but it was someone else’s job to build…
1. Struggles I’ve been putting off writing this blog. For one, I wasn’t sure what I want to say this month. The world outside feels like it has been more of the same crap. More insane stuff happening. More terrible job market. More layoffs in the news. I think part of the problem is that I’m on social media again, and even though I try to curate a lot of that crap out it still…
1. Wowsers, a year! January marks the one-year anniversary of me streaming. I didn’t actually record the first date I streamed anywhere, but as far as I can tell based on other data points it was sometime in the first few weeks of January. So I’m going to just go with January as the origin of the stream. This is actually completely by coincidence, because I don’t believe in new…
1. Wowsers, a year! I started setting things up for the channel in December of last year. I didn’t actually start streaming until mid-January but December is where the idea started to become reality. So let’s talk about the state of Studios. This might be a little confusing to people that aren’t me, so let me clarify real quick. Mongoose Studios is a vehicle for my…
1. I want to do things, but I run out of motivation It’s time to tackle this head-on. I’ve mentioned some of this before, I’ve talked about it on stream, I’ve told people individually. Now it’s time to write it down. Imagine that it’s Monday. It’s been a long day, you worked, ran errands, whatever. Now you could sit down and work on whatever thing you want…
0. Housekeeping Before we begin I just wanted to drop a little note here to let you all know that I’m going to be switching to a once monthly blog post schedule. Taking a little extra time on this one and letting myself not only breathe but polish my thoughts a little bit more has made me realize I was pushing way too hard and spending too much time trying to catch up on writing/editing…
A lot has happened in the past couple of days, and it didn’t feel right to post what I had prepared as a result. I am not a political person. I do not choose to engage in politics. I can find agreement and strong disagreement with various positions and core ideals of “both sides.” I say this because I want you to understand where I am coming from, or more specifically where I am…
1. Culture Businesses make a huge deal about their culture. They want you to read their culture page (spoiler, it looks the same as every other one) and they list “great culture” as a benefit on their careers page. It’s all a lie. Because culture is NOT what you say it is. Culture is what you do every single day. No amount of platitudes will change that. In fact some of the…
0. Before We Begin If you want to see the tutorial that this post is about you can find the playlist here. 1. A Quick Tutorial I had a fun little idea. Why not create a basic Go HTTP server tutorial? It’s pretty easy code to write in Go, and something that has utility. I had never made a tutorial like that before, only internal documentation. But how much harder could it be?
1. Go-Go Gadget The world demands a certain amount of organization. When you can’t juggle all your commitments, people notice. It’s me. I’m people. Broken promises are one of my pet peeves, when someone says they will follow up on something and never does, I lose a degree of respect for that person. Thus, in my pursuit of not being a hypocritical douche canoe, I work really hard…
1. Blogger? I hardly even know ’er I’m bad at writing. I’m even worse at blogging. Nothing you can say will change my mind on that. When I sit down to write these posts I just word-vomit my thoughts onto the page with some hastily scrawled bullet points from a notepad as a loose guide. If you’re about to mentally tell me that I could get better with practice, well…
1. Savvy? The first Pirates of the Caribbean movie may well be peak Disney. It’s smart in the right places, silly in the right places, and Johnny Depp’s portrayal of a slightly unhinged and perpetually drunken pirate is absolutely brilliant for the tone of the movie. But in all that amusement there lies a quote that has stuck with me for the past 22 (yikes) years. “The only rules…
1. I Was There, Gandalf Social media and I go back to the Myspace days. I don’t mean the sad corporate version it became after it was sold. I mean Myspace in all its early 2000s glory. Every page played music and most of them looked like someone was hosting a rave. “My Top 8” and who got added/removed or had their rank change was a new kind of gossip.
1. Star Trek I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was one of those rare things that I could convince my parents to allow me to stay up to the very edge of my bedtime for. Like any young nerd in training I was there for the cool spaceships, the android, the aliens. The normal science fiction things that, I suspect, initially draw most of us to the genre. There were a lot of things…
Hi, I’m Mongoose. I’m primarily a back end software developer, but lately I’ve been doing an awful lot of Dart/Flutter. I’ve worked for companies big and small, and made some pretty cool stuff along the way. Now I’m looking for my next project. You can watch me code live on Twitch or on YouTube . You can also follow me on BlueSky , Mastodon , or X where I mostly make…
Famous first words, and important ones too. The traditional message to indicate that you have correctly configured your environment and can proceed with the project that currently has your attention. How apropos, then, that this post exists to aid me in ensuring that all the machinery is in place and I can begin this particular endeavor.