Archive

How my galaxy map went from scanning every star, through beam search and a 29 GiB route cache, to routing across ten million systems with a compact spatial catalog.

Just a presentation on the current state of LLMs to help out at work.

Unlocking mulitple disks from one passphrase / chain

Some helpful kernel parameters to do with my motherboard / threadripper / amd radeon pros

Small utilities that I wrote today to help my transition to using Hyprland/waybar

Going through the updates that I’ve made through out the year working on my game, Atiya’s Quest.

How to replace your default search in Firefox with Searxng

Explore the intricate process of creating equipment in Atiya’s Quest, from effects and rarity to unique names and descriptions.

In this post I’ll go over the Prefab pattern that I’ve been using in Atiya’s Quest, that allows for dynamic content creation in Godot.

EventBus pattern in Godot

Learning curve coming in from having done many years of Python Dev, syntactically the language “looks” very similar, there’s very little visual differences when looking at the code.

Overview of the steps required to get up and running for Godot development in Arch Linux.

Atiya’s Quest gets a formal release on Linux, Windows, and Android.

Atiya’s Quest will get a formal release on Linux, Windows, and Android.

glove80, thoughts after a couple months

I disconnected my mouse, moved to trackball

How to find the fastest Arch mirrors

Quick post on how to recover from a failed terraform apply

Just taking a quick spin around with the Drone in Bayers Lake, Nova Scotia.

Out with the drone in Shediac New Brunswick Easter weekend 2023

Setting up Syncthing and Obsidian on a Boox Onyx, Android phone, Linux desktop and Server

Just an update on hurricane Fiona in my neck of the woods.

Off-roading in Tantallon NS, taking a look at a couple wild campsites

A panoramic view of the construction site at Bayers Lake in Halifax, taken while flying my drone around the lakes.

Experimenting with Stable-Diffusion with my AMD card on Arch Linux with rocm.

A trip to Memramcook, NB to visit the Taylor Village and do some off-roading.

Terrence Bay River outing with the Drone

Just a quick clip of my second drone flight with the mini drone.

Overview of how to install Lineage on my Pixel 2xl

How to sign your git commits with SSH instead of GPG

My first drone flight off-roading.

Quick script to nab the latest Proton GE version, can be run from your SteamDeck.

NeoVim IDE, I put together somewhat recently and some folks were asking me to post about it.

Here’s how I setup my Rofi and used wtwitch and mpv to play Twitch.tv streams.

fzf with some Dracula colors and some fun console shenanigans.

First thoughts and impressions of using the Steamdeck. spoilers it’s amazing!

Elden Ring on Linux (offline mode)

Amdfan updated to support Py-Yaml 6.0, and py3status-amdfan updated to use Amdfan 0.1.17

Amdfan updated to Python 3.10 and Rich 11.1, and py3status updated to use Amdfan 0.1.16

Just my entries into the advent of code 2021, been busy with these.

Newsboat and yt-dlp for RSS and a usable YouTube.

Exa a modern ls replacement, it’s pretty neat.

Getting up and running with Neovim and Github Copilot on Arch Linux

Trying out Nyxt in the search for a Vi mode browser.

I got a Pinetime, it was sweet for about 10 minutes. Hopefully it’s sweet again in a couple weeks.

Small Python script to get your Owncast chat into an OBS overlay

Open Broadcast Software (OBS) and Owncast all running in Linux, the perfect open source streaming solution?

Brief overview of Qubes and the installation process.

Just a quick overview of how to setup X Forwarding

WTF is a Ploopy? Opensource Trackball that runs QMK!

How to switch over to Podman for all your Docker and docker-compose needs.

Installing Debian11 into a VM to setup as my Work machine.

Preview / How to install Slackware 15.RC1, and small review.

Not a replacement for the installation wiki, but a complement for newer folks interested in Arch.

Small update to the Noita save game manager

Again with porting old projects to modern Python and PyGame

An interesting time now with the annoucement of Valves Steamdeck.

Quick write up of downgrading your Linux kernel using Arch Linux in the event of some issues.

Taking a peek at Pipewire, to see if it’s really the dragon slayer of Linux sound?

New releases for AMDFAN and py3status-amdfan

Recap / Review after 6 months of usage of Arch Linux

Taking a look at Linux From Scratch again whats changed in the last 20 years since I last ran through it?

Fun times porting my first personal Python project to Python3

Overview from a couple months of usage with bitwarden, coming from several unwilling years with LastPass.

Giving nvim a try, after a very long time spent with Vim.

The initial release for my new py3status module to monitor fan RPM and temperatures.

Syncplay is a neat tool for watching movies with friends remotely

With the final large update to Noita, there are some benefits and sadness.

Small py3status module for showing github notifications in i3wm

Porting my site to Gemini, with Bash and Python

35 minutes from release to Arch

Small automation for my server

Quick setup for persistent weechat with tmux and systemd

Urtuk: The Desolation is a new roguelike, turn-based tactical combat game with a native Linux build.

Linux compatible Noita Save Manager

A multiplayer mod for one of the best roguelikes out there.

My first release of AMDFAN, a fan controller for amdgpu video cards.

It ain’t much but it’s mine

What a great game, with fantastic Linux support.

Setting up Miniflux with Wallabag to read articles on my Android phone.

Just a quick write up of adding Python virtualenv support to Synth Shell

Another py3status module for i3, this time for showing the CPU governor

Small Python demo of the Noita physics engine “falling everything” written in Python.

Small http monitoring script that I wrote to keep track of some services running on my server.

Setting up Alacritty, ranger and ueberzug for image previews in the terminal

Getting Demon’s Souls up and running in Arch Linux with RPCS3

WTF is Gemini? Really… is it just a fancy Gopher?

Some settings and programs you can use to improve responsiveness of Noita, and other CPU intensive games.

Setting up KeyOxide for DNS, Github and Mastodon

How I managed to resolve (kinda), my controller issues with Dead Cells in Linux

Quick setup guide for self-hosting Foundry VTT

Noita, the best Witch game you haven’t played.

Small write-up of how to install a tile-set for Dwarf Fortress in Linux (Arch, but any other distribution will work as well).

How to build AUR’s with a chroot cleanly

Working with the Arch Linux package manager

More commands that I didn’t know about

Neat tool that I didn’t know about for bootable media

Some thoughts about Arch and Debian after 20 years of using primarily Debian

How to create a py3status module

Basic Looking Glass setup

Short demo video of VFIO setup playing Cyberpunk

BIOS and optimizations

Configuring your VM

Isolation of components for VM pass through

Intro to VFIO in Linux