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.
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.
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)
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.
Several months ago, I had expressed wanting to get a handle on my expenses cause I have no real budgeting techniques. After downloading all my statememts, I embarked on a journey to make my own expense tracker in Python. I had a pretty good start with a good concept and the database was fast with DuckDB.
Of course, life happens and I got more focused on the pick a gun and some recent career shifts, the expense tracker was not getting any love. However, my problem still persists. I was watching some video with Linus Torvalds and the speaker opened that he had made Linux in the 90s and git was created in 2005. He was asked that it’s been too long since he made something impactful, so when is he gonna release the next big thing? His answer was a hopeful one for developers at large. He had created his projects because he had problems and no solutions existed for it so he solved it himself. Linus, like other people who are lazy, hopes for other people to solve his problems and he hasn’t felt a need to create something.