Here you will find various writings on subjects which I deem interesting enough to write about. That typically includes web development, miscellaneous programming with python and the Godot game engine, and linux things.
If you wish to discuss anything you read here, feel free to open an issue over at the Github source of this blog.
When developing a Flask application, the auto-reloader is incredibly helpful. Each time I edit a python file the server will restart, so that my changes are immediately implemented. However, there is still room for improvement, which is what I will briefly discuss and fix in this post.
First, for context …
read moreIf you didn't read my previous post on LD43, check it out here.
The Ludum Dare results came in, and I managed to break top 100 in two categories! There were apparently 506 ranked entries for the Compo.
My results were:
Overall: 144 th (3.645 average from 33 ratings …
read moreMy first job out of university was entirely LAMP, using Zend framework. However, I had always loved writing python, and when it came time to leave that job I was mainly looking for something which would let me use it.
As you can imagine, recruiters were slightly sceptical of my …
read moreFor the unfamiliar, Ludum Dare is a 48 or 72 hour game jam. The organisers announce a theme and begin a countdown, then you have either 48 hours to create a game by yourself and enter it into the "Compo", or 72 hours to work in a team of any …
read moreWhen making a more fully-featured game in Godot, I often find myself needing to create a cutscene which displays an image and some text.
I typically lay this out with the image taking the top 2/3 or 3/4 of the window, and a black box taking up the …
read moreAt my workplace we like to use CI/CD to automatically deploy any changes to the master branch into production. This involves two main pieces of technology - Circleci and Ansible. <br><br> In this post I will be going over how we use these two pieces of technology to deploy a flask application.
read moreAs of peewee version 3, the test_database context manager was removed, and models are instead bound to a new database via a bind method.
There is a comment by the author of Peewee over on a github issue providing a new way to achieve this.
I have adapted this …
Update 07/2019 It seems Entroware have released a new version of the Zeus. It's now a 16" machine which features less IO than the model I purchased, but comes with a better processor and a 2080 GPU. This means my review is now somewhat obsolete.
The Zeus is a …
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A few months ago I bought a shiny new gaming laptop as my main computer. No surprise, this laptop came with Windows 10 installed. Since I decided to pass on Windows 8 and 8.1, this was my first experience with something other than Windows 7 for at least 8 …
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