You wouldn’t print a car

I have broken down and finally got a 3D printer. I’ve been printing all sorts of things and getting sucked in to Reddit forums, YouTube tutorials and more. This thing is amazing! All sorts of printable items in a 256 cubic millimeter space and multiple colors, the only thing limiting me is my imagination. We’ll try to expand on that.

3D Modelling Software

Now that I know how to print items from the community, I want to take the next step and design my own prints to solve some real problems. So I started looking around for 3D modelling software. I thought I could draw from my experience as a proud and certified Autodesk Inventor user.

Verifying motherboard settings always pays off

During college, my gaming PC had a funny thing happening. Sometimes, it would randomly boot up. I’d be hanging out in my room when all of a sudden I hear the low hum of the fans and Windows would be waiting for me to input my credentials. I honestly just chalked it up to crappy electrical wiring in the house I lived in because it stopped happening when I lived in Phoenix.

Damage System in Clay Bang

I’ve been reviewing the existing damage system in Clay-Bang. For roguelikes, all enemies must have health, ergo these clays have health. In real life, your aim depends on how the pigeon will break. If you clipped it on the edge, that means you hit the nose. And then there’s the more satisfying shot, hitting it in the middle completely vaporizes the clay and your aim was dead on. This is my approach to simulate those kind of shots.

Setting up my finances…the cool way 😎

I’ve embarked on a journey to manage my finances better, 6 months late is still fine huh? I had started something in Python but eventually left that one to collect dust in favor of learning Actual Finance. It’s a docker container that will spin up an app for you to create accounts, categorize finances and help you budget. It strictly follows YNAB(You need a budget) principles but you can configure it to just track expenses, I’m good with that since all I want to do is be mindful of my expenses and making choices to bring down a specific category like restaurants(it’s always food with me)

I’m still around!

Hey everyone! It’s been a long time since I posted and the blog has been a little lonely. We gotta fix that with different posts. I will start with a couple of life updates. I finally hung my spurs of being a sysadmin for natural gas plants and became a Senior Security Operations engineer at Western Midstream! My main goal is heading up the Identity Access Management efforts.