Never meant to make your reader cry, I apologize a trillion times. My baby a drama Hugo don’t like me; she be doin’ things like duplicatin’ them RSS entries. Come from her release page to my server tryna fight me, bringing her breaking changes along; messing up index.xml quite wrong. That’s as far as I can take that Outkast song. I upgraded to Hugo v0.150.1 and thought I fixed all the breaking changes but I was wrong and noticed the biggest one too late. Some dangling atom file once u...| Brain Baking
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Sometimes I write blog posts about being ashamed to be a software developer. This is one of them. …| Brain Baking
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Two years ago, I initiated a yearly recurring thing called The Board Game Shelf Analysis that …| Brain Baking
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I came across a weird function in our Go codebase the other day. It was supposed to do just one …| Brain Baking
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In one of the buildings at our university campus, a big TV screen next to the staircase tried (in …| Brain Baking
Here’s my 2023 In Books end-of-year list, published on the cusp of the end of something old …| Brain Baking
My email pen pal Jw over at https://so1o.xyz/ asked me how I record screenshots for my vintage …| Brain Baking
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I gave up after yesterday’s quirky A* assignment. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar for …| Brain Baking
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Yesterday, the video game DOOM turned thirty. On 10 December 1993, John Carmack, John Romero, Sandy …| Brain Baking
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A follow-up on the insanity of collecting retro games| Brain Baking
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Something scary dawned to me recently after having peeked into several source code repositories of …| Brain Baking
I’ve had an interesting conversation with Mr Creosote on Mastodon a few months ago that …| Brain Baking
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For decades, I’ve been trained to optimize my thinking in terms of numbers. I’ve been …| Brain Baking
After compiling my top 25 best games of all time list, I started drafting a list of my 25 best …| Brain Baking
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I know I am. Allow me to explain myself. I’ll be brief: the ratio of weekly new posts in my …| Brain Baking
Edge Magazine put out another ranking, this time the 100 greatest video games of the past 30 years, …| Brain Baking
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Ehhh… What’s up, September? Strange, and just like that, Summer is preparing to pack …| Brain Baking
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I’ve been reading Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir lately—thanks, Austin—which, …| Brain Baking
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June has passed, and with it, the first bulk of the exams, meaning it’s officially summer in …| Brain Baking
Goodbye, July 2023—hello, August, and with it, complete radio silence from my academic peers. …| Brain Baking