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Learning to Code Games
Because I don’t have enough projects on the go I’ve decided to try to learn the basics of how to code a game. I think most programmers (and computer nerds?) have at some point said that they want to make games. It’s really kind of universal, and for most of us they’re the first thing…
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Learning Basic Electronics with Arduino
I have seen with interest everything that smart people on the Internet have done with small programmable micro PCs and microcontrollers. While the desire to do ‘something’ with them has always been there I’ve never come up with a project that I wanted to figure out and have thus left learning about this world of…
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Custom Port on Socket-based SSH
I recently set up a new VM running Ubuntu 23.10. This version of Ubuntu comes with a change to the way that the ssh daemon is configured. I’ve always preferred to run SSH on a non-standard port on most of my machines. While the usefulness of this as a security measure is debatable, it’s also…
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Changing How I Learn
Over the past several years I’ve continually had a goal of making more and better use of this site — to do more blogging. I don’t have any illusions of becoming a world famous blogger or some kind of influencer, it just seems like a sensible place to put some of the things I’m thinking…
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The Evolution of Windows’ Snipping Tool
In an ever-evolving technology landscape something that has remained a need for many people regardless of platform is a reliable screenshot tool. My primary computing environment has been, and still is Windows. For a long time, the screenshot story on Windows was pretty poor. My first time really diving into Mac OS back in the…