I first played through the majority of Dragon Quest 11 when it came out in North America for the PS4. I don't remember exactly how I got distracted, but I ended up moving on to a different game, and I never came back to the PS4 version. Recently, I learned that the newer version,...
It seems that only yesterday, I had converted my sites to use gatsby. The workflow I've had since allows me to use Obsidian to write posts in markdown and run a script to build and publish to the server. It really doesn't get much easier. Except that after Netlify acquired gatsby...
(This is an interview of my grandmother on my mom's side, Florence Hoseney, that I did about her life on April 18, 2001 for my Sociology 302 class at Northern Michigan University. My son recently got a tri-fold assignment in his gifted-students class that involves five generation...
In VSCode, the default keyboard shortcut bindings to switch/toggle between the terminal and active editor is ctrl+` (ctrl+backtick) The problem is, when switching back to the editor, it closes the terminal pane. If you want the terminal to remain open when switching back to the...
So we had our son take a tour of Code Ninjas yesterday. They have him "play a game" where he has to come up with the JavaScript function calls that move his player through a dungeon and attack an ogre through 5 levels (just a small portion of the game played for the tou...
Here I discuss some books I read recently. These are all basically business related, but also video game and computer related. Disrupting The Game (by Reggie Fils-Aimé) Reggie was best known for his successful role as COO at Nintendo of America. In his book, he goes through his e...
This past weekend, we drove to Dallas for vacation and one of the places we went was the National VideoGame Museum in Frisco. I wanted to go in blindly and knew nothing about it before going. I was pleasantly surprised by how much they have there, and by the majority of hands-on...
We had our first glamping trip as a family last weekend, via getaway.house. It was perhaps a bad time for us to go. None of us like the extreme heat of Texas during the summer, yet we still enjoyed it. We couldn't use the fire pit due to the burn-ban, but they instead provided a...