Why I Keep Coming Back to AWS Lightsail for Personal Projects
As a software developer, I spend enough time dealing with infrastructure, cloud services, containers, deployments, and all the other fun things that come with getting software into production. So when I’m working on a personal project? Sometimes I…
The Secret Mew Cards in Pokémon 30th Celebration Are Insane
I recently wrote about Pokémon 30th Celebration – Amazing, but there’s one thing I didn’t really get into: the absolutely wild secret RGB Mew cards hiding in this set. As I’ve mentioned before, I love Mew. It’s easily one of my favorite Pokémon. So when…
Is Getting Your TCG Cards Graded Actually Worth It?
There are a ton of card grading companies out there. Some are huge names that almost every collector knows, while others are much smaller. But the bigger question is: is grading actually worth it? First, you’ve got the major grading companies like…
Pokemon Card Pickups 9/19
So now and then me and the wife like to go look around for pokemon cards, and recently i just picked up the following cards. I have a obsession with Tag Teams and trying to add more to my personal collection. My wife loves the art of the Kyorge Cards and…
Physical Games Aren’t Dead — And I Really Hope They Never Die
Please Don’t Let Physical Games Die With Sony recently announcing that new PlayStation games will no longer be released on physical discs starting in January 2028, I really hope this isn’t the beginning of the end for physical games. And more…
Week of Music 9/18/26
This week, i think i will share a little bit of an older song but i absolutely love this song.it is a cover of “Sun to Me” by Zach Bryan, covered by MGK. We also got a new song that is on the GTA 6 sound track by Morgan Wallen, and i am a big…
Building Project City: What I Learned Making My Own Nintendo Switch Game
There’s something very different about starting a game project and actually seeing that game sitting on the Nintendo eShop. Project City started with a relatively simple idea: I wanted to make a top-down open-city game where you could drive around,…
Wifey Collects
How Pokémon Cards Became Our Hobby I’ve been a fan of Pokémon for basically as long as I can remember. It started when I was a kid. Every August, my family used to go on a camping trip, and during one of those trips, my sister and I met another kid…
Pokemon 30th Celebration – Amazing
Pokémon 30th Anniversary — WOW, This Set Does Not Disappoint The Pokémon 30th Anniversary Celebration set just came out, and let’s just say… WOW. This set does not disappoint. Luckily, we were able to get our hands on some of the new products…
Welcome to GTEDB — Let’s See Where This Goes
So… welcome to GTEDB. I’ve wanted a place for a while where I could write about the things I’m working on, playing, collecting, breaking, fixing, or just randomly obsessing over. Instead of trying to cram all of that into one specific…
