A Blogging Experiment Post-Mortem

Alt Title: How Not To Make a Ton of Money Blogging About Things That Matter to You Why Do I Write? I mostly write for selfish reasons. I started blogging because I thought passive income would be great, but then after a while I realized it’s probably the wrong niche, and I’d have to (be really annoying || prolific || write about popular things to generate clicks) to even be seen, and that’s not what I want to spend my resources on....

October 15, 2017

Ready, Set, Flail

My Origin Story I started my career as a student. I’m still a student. I didn’t know what I wanted. OK, I knew I wanted to just play games, eat pizza, and drink mountain dew all day. But none of that was going to get me anywhere except diabetic. I knew I wanted a stable profession, and of the handful of mentors I had at the time, half of them were pushing me to technology, one specifically to engineering....

September 7, 2017

Hosting Node.js and Express App on Heroku

I’ve been checking Node.js out lately, and thought I’d share a quick Hello World using the Jade templating engine. Get Node set up From your terminal: 1 2 3 4 5 cd /tmp wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v6.9.2/node-v6.9.2-linux-x64.tar.gz tar xvfz node-v6.9.2-linux-x64.tar.gz mkdir -p /usr/local/nodejs mv node-v6.9.2-linux-x64/* /usr/local/nodejs Then add this to your ~/.bashrc: 1 export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/nodejs/bin Don’t forget to source your .bashrc 1 source ~/.bashrc Test the new environment variable...

January 23, 2017

Building a Single User Dungeon With Java: The Knights of Something Notable

I wanted to get my hands dirty while making something fun. I LOVE text adventure RPGs, and I LOVE MUDs, so I’m attempting to build a cross between the two: a Single User Dungeon (SUD). A few notes on code quality Most of this code is pretty rough. I was mostly trying things until they worked and reflecting on what went well and what didn’t. I do love that git captures this process for me....

January 2, 2017