Recently, I purchased a “Retro game stick” online. For reference, you can find them here with these non affiliate links: Retro Game Stick Nostolgia Stick Game It is a pretty […]
Re-review of Chess Digitizer, now called Chess Scanner
A few days ago, I reviewed several Chess related OCR scanners that convert hand written chess score sheets used in chess tournaments into pgn files that can be used by […]
A quest to find the best OCR to convert handwritten score sheets to digital pgn files
I’ve been on a chess tech quest. After every chess tournament or quad that I play in or run, there are handwritten scoresheets. Each of these scoresheets are like a […]
Robot Rampage! Another video game completed while learning Godot!
As I’ve mentioned before, I am trying to learn about 3D game development by completing Udemy.com courses to learn how to use Godot. Today I finished another course about 3D […]
Work around for SubViewport issue on Godot 4.2 in compatibility mode
If you can see the above image, you will note that the subviewport is accurately displaying the revolver AND the 3D world is still visible. If you are trying to […]
Use rsync to backup a Nextcloud server?
I don’t wear a tinfoil hat. But I also don’t trust Google. Or any big tech, to be honest. There are a lot of advantages to using something like Google […]
US Chess Federation Tournament Software for Linux?
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you will know that I personally use Linux – exclusively. That said, I recently became a certified club level Tournament […]
Can you still register a 4th generation Kindle (D01200) on Amazon?
While I do have a love/hate relationship with Amazon, the ability to purchase kindle books and read them is very handy. I have several older 4th generation Kindles, D01200 models, […]
Kicked off of Amazon?
I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. I was using it exclusively for years, a happy prime customer, renting and buying movies, using the Amazon Music, etc. All was great. […]
ERROR: Pack created with a newer version of the engine
While doing a lot of work in Godot, I recently ran across an interesting error. I was attempting to upgrade from using Godot 4.1, which was the version used in […]