Why Retro Games Just Fuck
There are some absolutely incredible games being released today. Games are bigger. They’re prettier. They have massive worlds, ridiculous amounts of content, online multiplayer, ray tracing, gigantic stories, and budgets that probably rival the GDP…
Why Making Your App a Docker Container Can Be Incredibly Useful
Docker is one of those technologies that can sound way more complicated than it actually needs to be. Containers. Images. Registries. Volumes. Docker Compose. Kubernetes. It can quickly turn into an entire rabbit hole. But at its core, one of the things…
Why I Choose Unity as My Main Game Engine
There are a ridiculous number of ways to make a game today. Unity, Unreal, Godot, custom engines, frameworks—the list keeps growing. I’ve played around with different engines and technologies over the years, but when I actually have an idea for a…
Why the Bambu Lab P1S Is Such a Great 3D Printer
I’ve had a 3D printer for a while. Before the Bambu Lab P1S, I had an Ender, and while it was a fun machine to mess around with, it always felt like the printer itself was part of the hobby. Level the bed. Adjust something. Print a test. Something goes…
Why iPhone Just Works
I’ve used plenty of phones over the years, but I always seem to come back to the iPhone. Why? It just works. I know that’s probably the most cliché Apple statement possible, but it’s true. I don’t really want to think about my…
Console.WriteLine Is Still a Debugging Tool and You Know It
We have incredible debugging tools today. Breakpoints. Conditional breakpoints. Watches. Immediate windows. Profilers. Structured logging. Distributed tracing. Application Insights. We can practically watch our applications have an existential crisis in…
English vs. Japanese Pokémon Cards: Why Japanese Cards Just Feel Better
If you’ve been collecting Pokémon cards for a while, you’ve probably noticed something the first time you put an English card next to its Japanese counterpart: The Japanese card just seems… nicer. Maybe it’s the texture. Maybe…
I Bought My Wife a Ninja SLUSHi for Her Birthday—and This Thing Is Awesome
So for my wife’s birthday, I decided to get her something that we absolutely did not need. A Ninja SLUSHi. And honestly? This thing is freaking awesome. The idea is pretty simple. You pour a drink into it, turn it on, and it turns that drink into a…
Bring Back Arcade Sports Games
I miss when sports games weren’t so damn serious. Don’t get me wrong—there’s absolutely a place for realistic sports games and racing simulators. But there was an era where developers seemed to ask a much more important question:…
Modern Pokémon Cards vs Vintage: Which Do I Actually Enjoy More?
I’ve been a Pokémon fan since I was a kid, so vintage Pokémon cards are always going to have a special place for me. There’s just something about seeing an original Base Set Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, or even a random card like Caterpie…
