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Transitioning To Ghost

Transitioning To Ghost

I am officially switching the blog over from WordPress to Ghost. During this time I have already imported all previous blog posts from WordPress, but the images didn't load right. I will be working on transitioning everything over the coming weeks. Thanks for your patience!

Post Mortem: Docker Swarm Migration

Post Mortem: Docker Swarm Migration

Normally, you have to announce you’re doing a thing before you can post mortem it when it fails. I didn’t announce this to anyone but myself, but I feel it’s good practice to analyze the facts and prepare for moving forward. I don’t normally find myself

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Transparency: Site Tracking

Hello. I just wanted to offer a bit of transparency into recent changes made on April 18th, 2024 to this website’s WordPress platform. I added a small tracking script to the website. I am using the Plausible self-hosted platform to collect some basic information about visitors. This will help

Game Development, code

Creating a Game Management System

I’m not sure how AAA game publishers roll out online games, but I always envision layers of complex interactions between multiple on-prem and cloud services securely talking business while getting the job done. I may be giving them the benefit of the doubt, but this is what I like

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Designing My Own Blog Platform

I have a small disdain for WordPress (WP from here on out). In fact, I probably hate it. Every blog that I have ever set up goes through the following process: 1. Install WP 2. Find a theme 3. Realize the theme is a lite version and leaves out a

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A New (Old) Project Emerges

A long time ago in a galaxy far-far away I had a grand dream for a browser-based space game with similar gameplay to a very old PHP-based game called BlackNova Traders. I dubbed my version Nova Trade Wars. I initially intended this game to be very immersive and it was

Slight Margaret Delay

Things have gotten busy at home and work, but development is slowly progressing with Margaret. I will publish a new article as soon as possible!

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How To: Token Reward System

In my previous post on the topic, I promised a how-to guide on implementing your own token system for rewarding and enforcing positive behavior at home with your children. Read: Reward System For Kids Before I get into things, I would like to note that this system may not work

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Reward Systems for Kids

When it comes to rewarding children for things they do right, it can actually be really hard to find something that works. When my wife and I originally started working on a system, it came in various forms. It may have been positive reinforcement through a small toy for being

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Margaret Workflow in n8n

As I covered in my previous post, I originally used n8n to build out a workflow to make some dynamic things happen with Margaret. Previous Article n8n is a powerful, open source workflow creator. It has a lot of drop-in functions ready to go out of the box and is

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What's a Margaret?

Recently, I was browsing Reddit as I normally do and I was pleasantly surprised by a post linking to a website which let’s you create AI personas (https://chirper.ai). These created personas are given life in the form of a Twitter-like site that allows them to “tweet” about

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Getting set up

Looking forward to getting this blog set up and moving. I have a lot of things planned for this year and I’m looking forward to sharing with you.