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 diary of the game, they contain all the moves that were played, who played, when, where, what board, and the …
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 game making and built this science fiction first person shooter.
While the course did come with artwork and models …
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 a subviewport to prevent weapon clipping in Godot 4.x, and you see the below image (or similar to …
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 to sync your pictures, your documents, your life. There is also the disadvantage that potentially any Google employee, or some …
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 Director (TD) for the US Chess Federation. One problem that I noticed was that all the software for running tournaments fell …
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, that I recently had to switch to a new Amazon account. Unfortunately, registering them was painful.
TL;DR - Yes …
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. Then, out of the blue, they one day banned me from Amazon. They locked my account, and sent me …
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 my Udemy class on Godot, to the newer version 4.2.1. After downloading the newer version of Godot …
As I continue to learn more about using Godot, my Udemy course took me through building a tower defense game. It was really fun to work on, and I am really enjoying the course! It was interesting though, that at the end of this segment, for the tower defense game …
While trying to build custom roms for one of my cell phones, I managed to soft brick the phone. It was a Cat S42G, and I somehow managed to get it stuck in a preloader boot loop while attempting to change a stock kernel to have a TWRP recovery image …