Archive of posts from 2020

• Ginger Cumin Rubbed Rib Roast 2020 December 31
  • cooking
  • meat
  • recipe
  

  I scored a rib roast from a local butcher shop whose owners were retiring. It was a beautiful 6lb chunk with an amazing fat cap on it. This is how I cooked it, and what I made with the leftovers.

• Interactive Breadth First Search in a Grid 2020 December 20
  • app
  • breadth-first
  • data-visualization
  • demos
  • graph-search
  • graphs
  • interactive
  • programming
  

  Breadth first search(BFS) is a very powerful and useful algorithm for exploring graph like structures. A BFS searches it’s nearest neighbors first before moving on. It’s main use is to find a path using the fewest hops. Here we use it to explore a grid that can be modified by a user. In this grid, we have verticies (the grid boxes), and edges (the box north, south, east and west).

• Yetris Review - A Fantastic Terminal Tetris 2020 December 08
  • games
  • notes
  • reviews
  • tetris

  Yetris is a very cool tetris clone for the terminal. It features colors and a neat interface with lots of levels. I really enjoy playing it, but I always forget the name of the program, so I’m making a post so I don’t forget what’s it called.

• Advent of Code Input Getter 2020 December 03
  • advent-of-code
  • automation
  • bash
  • linux
  • tutorial

  I wrote a bash function to get my daily Advent of Code input. It assumes that you are in a directory ending in the pattern year/day, where year is the year you’re doing the problems. Here’s the code

• What I like about Love2D 2020 November 29
  • game-development
  • games
  • graphics
  • lua
  • tutorial
  

  I recently decided to revisit game development. I decided to use the Love2D engine, because the API is rather beautiful in it’s simplicity. The graphics are treated as a pixel buffer to which I can draw lines, squares and circles to. It has 2 core functions for me to work with, which I like. All in all, it reminds me a lot of QBasic, which I learned in high school. I’ll link to my repo at the end and provide appropriate links at the various points.

• Atlantic Pie 2020 November 22
  • cooking
  • notes
  • pie

  I made some Atlantic pie recently with a few modifications. I think it turned out pretty good. I basically followed the New York Times recipe. I wanted to make something using saltine crackers. This turned out to be way easier than expected.

• Using jq and bash for JSON processing 2020 November 06
  • bash
  • cplug
  • docker
  • jq
  • json
  • linux
  • presentation
  • tutorial

  This is a lightning talk I gave to the CPLUG November 2020 meeting on how to use jq with bash for dealing with JSON in modern tooling. NOTE: use the space bar to scroll.

• Inspecting All Running Docker Containers 2020 October 29
  • bash
  • docker
  • json
  • linux
  • snippet
  • tutorial

  I just discovered how to run inspect on all running docker containers.

• Dr. Stone - Arithmetic Battle 2020 October 26
  • anime
  • dr-stone
  • history
  • math
  • reviews
  • speculation
  • units-of-measure

  So I’m watching Dr. Stone, and in the science demonstrating contest between Senkū and Chrome they have a final battle over who knows more math. This is a list of some of the math I think Senkū would have used to crush Chrome or at least some math tricks I think are really cool. I know that it doesn’t go down like this, but I like to think it could have possibly went down a couple different ways and might have hit on these. It’s obvious in the manga that Chrome only knows Arithmetic, but these are some cool tricks that could’ve been applied.

• Lights Out Game 2020 July 29
  • demos
  • games
  • interactive
  • programming
  • projects
  • puzzle-games

  Shown below is a lights out kind of game. Scores are not tracked or anything it’s just something meant for fun. The goal is to get the board either completely lit up or completely black. It inverts the color of whatever you click on and those directly adjacent squares. Those squares directly to the north, south, east and west.

• A Lazy Way to Collect Runtime Stats About Running Docker Containers 2020 July 23
  • bash
  • containers
  • docker
  • performance
  • statistics
  • tutorial

  So I was recently messing with Docker to keep up on my skills, and I wanted to see how much resources were required by each container over a given time period. So I came up with the following command to run in the terminal to collect it.

• Getting a Knockoff Arduino with CH340 to Work With Arch Linux 2020 February 27
  • arduino
  • linux
  • troubleshooting

  I recently bought a very cheap Arduino nano clone off of eBay. I was having an issue where my computer would recognize the Arduino, I could watch the serial connection using the serial monitor(It had an ASCII printing program on it from the factory), but I couldn’t flash it with a new program.