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Digital Tools My minor contribution to uses.tech Hardware Computers At work, I use MacOS primarily, but the tools listed below I use both at work and at home. At home, I use MacOS on my personal laptop, and keep a gaming computer running CachyOS. My homelab runs on a Lenovo ThinkStation I got on Facebook marketplace and a Raspberry Pi 5. Going to expand with a NAS when I can.
Something I’ve been thinking about and working on is a node-based dialogue system. I’ve just begun writing my own isometric, story-driven RPG, and found that managing and writing dialogue to be a bigger challenge than anticipated. There’s plenty of solutions out there for Godot, but writing my own just sounded plain fun. After some tinkering with Godot and a lot of misses with…
I’ve found that taking paper notes is something that is just as much about the enjoyment of the act as it is about the outcome (recall, being good at my job, etc). For example, each day I make a new page in my notebook with some checkboxes for tasks to do, and then take notes as they pop up. Pushing my mouse aside and taking out my pen switches my brain into a mode that seems trained for…
Hi there 👋 I’m Jack! I’m a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems in Raleigh, North Carolina. I work in Cisco’s Collab organization as a platform software engineer, specializing in building infrastructure, metrics and observability, CI/CD, and general computer tomfoolery. In my free time, I enjoy: Playing ice hockey Warhammer 40k Hobbyist programming Weight training Books Video…