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Automated Environments with Nix flakes, Direnv, Devshell, and Starship

That's definitely word salad of a title. Why? I've seen local development environment drift everywhere I've worked, and frequently between my own machines. This can be as simple as slightly different system libraries installed to major versions of platforms like Python or Node. The

ASUS Zenbook Wifi Issue

Recently (last couple of months), I've been having issues with Wifi on my Asus Zenbook. While a recent (kernel version 6.13.x) fixed it, I figured compiling all of the info I found into one spot might help someone else. System Information Laptop Zenbook U5401R (AMD-based ASUS

Diagram Libraries and Tools

Visualizing code is something I spend a lot of time thinking about. I want better tools for it, because while I prefer the ability to code things with text, I also want to be able to see relationships between components. So, for your sake, dear reader, I went down a

An Opinionated Take on Python Formatting

As opinionated as Black, without the lack of options! Recently, a friend pointed me towards Ruff (a Python linter), and that they have a formatter for Python that's in alpha. I am not fond of Black's approach, but have found that projects like YAPF and Clang-Format

Story-Seeking the Sunless in the Seas & Skies

London falls and rises. Humans explore the world. Shadows lurk. The sunlight burns, though the dark is rarely what it burns. Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies are two story-exploration games focused on the Fallen London series, a humorously macabre twist on a turn-of-the-20th century gaslamp London. I don't

Games I Want to Love - Knight Witch (Part 2)

Welcome back! Theme and Story discussions can be found in Part 1. This will focus on the game mechanics and will contain spoilers for almost all of the mechanics, but will try to avoid plot spoilers. The game opens at the end of a war. The Knight Witches are assaulting

Ranting about Games Programming

A rant with some potentially interesting points, but is not as well laid out as other posts. Take commentary here with a grain of salt. One of my frustrations with the gaming industry is how little it learns from itself. Only by the fact that we now have essentially two

Games I Want to Love - Knight Witch (Part 1)

A civilization sustaining itself on the substances produced from the dead, a genius inventor who wants to settle a new planet and abandon the current one, and a main character that agonizes over the responsibility she has to others versus herself are just a few of the themes that make