Posts

05 Aug 2023
Nim: Outdated nimble.ini
I was interested today in trying to write a simple GUI program using Nim's [nimx] library. But even with the latest Nim...
26 Jul 2023
Lenovo Ideapad 3 15ALC6 RAM upgrade: ignore the official docs
In late 2021 I picked up a Lenovo Ideapad 3 (15ALC6), a Ryzen 7 5700U-based laptop with 16GB RAM and a nice 1TB SSD. It...
05 Jul 2023
Defold Android build issue: Problem parsing the package
While working on my first hobby gamedev project with Defold, I ran into an issue when trying to install the debug APK o...
02 Jun 2023
Rodland Intro Chords
I was watching cutscenes from the old arcade game "Rodland" and noticed a couple of chords with some nice voice leading...
30 Apr 2023
Benben
Today I was absolutely delighted to stumble upon a new command-line VGM (Video Game Music file) player called https://c...
18 Apr 2023
BAM! and the history is gone
A few years ago I took this photo on Barrow Street near Ringsend, Dublin. BAM were tearing down some of the old https:/...
16 May 2021
Playing Revenant using Wine and Proton
_TL;DR: I tried to run an old game called Revenant on Linux using both WINE and Proton, but both had problems. Here's h...
04 Apr 2020
Living with dwm
You may have heard of tiling window managers like https://dwm.suckless.org[dwm] or https://i3wm.org/[i3]. These are pre...
24 Jul 2018
Jeff Schneider's Sick R&B Chords
Jeff Schneider has some excellent instructive content on YouTube, and takes the time to explain some of the theory behi...
22 Jul 2018
Jazz chords from Paul Barton's "Piano Sounds Never Heard Before!"
There's a really nice sequence of jazzy chords in Paul Barton's YouTube video "Piano Sounds Never Heard Before!" at the...