Author: Brad Root
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What I’m Up To – Week 20, 2022
Last week I got my Panic Playdate in the mail. I preordered it last July, and have been following it since the May 2019 EDGE announcement, so you could say it was a long time coming. It’s such a nice feeling device, and good looking, too. Sure, the non-backlit screen can be annoying, but I…
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What I’m Up To – Week 11, 2022
What I got up to this week: some minor changes to the next version of MultiClock, and… well… not much else.
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New blog, who dis?
I migrated this blog from Gatsby to WordPress. I’m sure to many people that sounds insane. There’s so many tutorials online on how to migrate in the other direction, and even plugins that export all your content to Markdown files to stick into Gatsby, but nothing if you want to go another way. I’m doing…
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What I’m Up To – Week 49, 2021
What I did over the past week: I built and released dotBeat, a small macOS menu bar app.
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dotBeat Internet Time
This week on stream I built a small macOS menu bar app I’m calling dotBeat Internet Time. It’s a small, focused app with two features: 1) It displays the current Swatch Internet Time in the menu bar, and 2) It allows you to figure out how Internet Time corresponds to your local time, as well…
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What I’m Up To – Week 47, 2021
What I did over the past, uh, week? Year? Who knows. It’s been a while.
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Making PICO-8 Development Easier
A quick guide on how to make developing games on PICO-8 a bit friendlier for established developers.
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People Can Be Dishonest About Work
Details of my experience with someone trying very hard to commit unemployment fraud.
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Zip Multiple Files for Download from AWS S3
Ever need to serve multiple files from S3 at once? Wouldn’t a zip function be great? Well, here you go.
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Numu Tracker Shut Down
After three years of Numu Tracker being a part of my life (the first year of it spent slowly developing it), I am moving on and shutting it down as of today. There’s several reasons for it, so I figure I will briefly talk about them as honestly as I can, and also reflect on…
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Automating Python Lambda Deployments with Docker
A quick guide on how to automate Lambda deployment package creation using Docker.