woodworking Making a Small Box Our daughter wanted a small box to keep some "treasures" in. I made one out of wood, went with her to the paint store, and it's been painted orange. I loved making it, I loved painting it with her, and I can't wait to
Resources I Lean on when talking about Cities I've started caring more and more about livable cities, and what cities need to thrive. I've made this post mostly as a link farm to the sorts of resources I end up referring to often. Single family homes are expensive for cities This slide
woodworking I made a Stool A routine source of conflict in our household is the post-dinner-handwashing for the children. There's a fair amount of pushing for room on our single Ikea stool [https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bolmen-step-stool-white-90484673/]. A small secondary source of conflict is the fact
Debugging broken fonts on websites The other day I was browsing my bank's website and things looked messed up. I initially blamed it on my bank, because my bank is terrible at having a website. My bank, in theory showing me my accounts, and balances. Instead showing corrupted text.
When can we stop wearing masks? Honestly if we want to reduce the impact of COVID, wearing masks indoors when in mixed groups may need to become the norm for years. Or maybe rapid tests will get even faster and you'll be able to blow into a breathalyzer on the way into a venue...
Clearing Driveways I shoveled some driveways when I was a teenager, made some money. Up here in Canada that meant I got a lot of practice. Over time I tried a lot
The Tomorrow War This post contains extensive spoilers for the movie. It's free to watch if you have Amazon Prime Video. This was not a good movie. At some point I turned to
Apache installed with Homebrew not starting I ran into a problem with Apache I installed with homebrew claiming it had started, but not actually running. Pauls-MBP-1675:~ paulreinheimer$ brew services stop httpd Stopping `httpd`... (might take a
I hate "don't call us" It's pretty common for a doctor's office or lab to tell you "don't call us, we'll only call you if the results require a follow up, otherwise you're fine". I
Sitemap.xml is a waste of time We have a sitemap.xml file at work, I made it to check a box in some tool a consultant ran for us. I think it was a giant waste
Information is so close! I saw a great video the other day about the new live New York MTA Map [https://vimeo.com/470020599] (go watch it then come back, it's great). When I
Gaming shouldn't be this much work Playing video games should be fun! but when you spend your first hour (and most of your baby's nap) just trying to get it started, it's easy to forget that.
Thoughts on Factory Town (this post will largely only make sense to players of Factory Town) I’ve been loving Factory Town [http://82apps.com/factorytown/], according to steam my wife and I have
New Bed Slats We bought Alexander a new bed a year or so ago from Ikea. It's a Kura [https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/kura-reversible-bed-white-pine-80253814/], and it's pretty cool because it can function as either a bed with a frame over top, or as a
Folder that automatically shrinks images (Mac) I now have a folder on my Desktop that I can drag images into and have them automatically get copied to another folder and resized down to something reasonable. It's
Why I stopped playing Destiny I don't think Destiny became a bad game, it just became a bad game for me. History I played a fair amount of Destiny 1; I've got the Moment of
I hate TV Menus (Clarification: I hate menus presented on Televisions, I also hate menus in most televisions, but that's a different topic) Here's the menu from a local A&W, or at least the portion of the menu listing their burger options: Picture of A&W Menu
game-development Design Thinking Something that's become more apparent as I've been mentally playing the randomly generated maps is that the number of colours buildings come in plays a key role in level difficulty.
game-development Navigating the City Exploring how I figured out which buildings to consider "passed" as the character moves around the city.
game-development Frustrations with GMS2 I've been working with GMS2 for about 2 weeks, and I've been frustrated with some of their design decisions.
game-development Writing a Game I've had plenty of ideas for video games, but as (primarily) a PHP developer I've always been a bit restricted in the types of game that were feasible. But when I saw Jessica Mauerhan tweeting about starting her own development adventure I finally dipped
"Hey" There's plenty of talk on the evils of starting a conversation on Slack/IRC/whatever with "hey". Just say whatever you're going to say, don't waste my time with Hey.
