The personal blog of Gordon Glashttps://gglas.ninja/AstroJShttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/12/my-2025-in-review/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/12/my-2025-in-review/2025 was another busy year for gaming. There were so many hits that came out, and I didn't get to play much of them, because I was busy playing many older games. But even though the backlog always gets bigger, I managed to finish quite a few games. 2025 was the 40th anniversary o...Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/04/vlc-built-in-dark-mode-and-hardware-media-key-setup/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/04/vlc-built-in-dark-mode-and-hardware-media-key-setup/I wanted to share my VLC setup. For a long time I've wanted VLC to have a dark mode... not by using some weird shaped custom skin, but just the default theme with a native/built-in dark mode. Fortunately, native dark mode is now included in the nightly builds in VLC 3.0 thanks to...Sat, 05 Apr 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/03/video-games-i-finished-in-2024/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2025/03/video-games-i-finished-in-2024/I was pretty busy gaming (along with my son) in 2024. Games I finished in 2024 Crisis Core FF7 Reunion (PC - Steam) Diablo 2 Resurrected (PC - Blizzard launcher) Super Mario RPG remake (Switch) Eastward (PC - Steam) Undertale - Neutral Ending (PC - Steam) V Rising (PC - Steam -...Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2024/09/game-review-dragon-quest-xi-s-definitive-edition/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2024/09/game-review-dragon-quest-xi-s-definitive-edition/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,...Mon, 09 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2024/09/site-now-uses-astro/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2024/09/site-now-uses-astro/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...Mon, 02 Sep 2024 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2023/10/interview-with-florence-hoseney-my-grandmother/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2023/10/interview-with-florence-hoseney-my-grandmother/(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...Thu, 26 Oct 2023 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2023/04/vscode-keyboard-shortcuts-to-toggle-between-terminal-and-editor/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2023/04/vscode-keyboard-shortcuts-to-toggle-between-terminal-and-editor/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...Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/11/code-ninjas/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/11/code-ninjas/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...Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/10/nintendo-apple-business-book-reviews-october-2022/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/10/nintendo-apple-business-book-reviews-october-2022/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...Mon, 24 Oct 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/09/national-videogame-museum-trip-2022/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/09/national-videogame-museum-trip-2022/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...Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/glamping-trip-2022/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/glamping-trip-2022/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...Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/how-to-setup-oh-my-posh-in-windows-terminal/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/how-to-setup-oh-my-posh-in-windows-terminal/Updated 2024-02-26: Added instructions for oh-my-posh in git-bash in MINGW. Updated 2024-02-22: Fixed winget package name conflict. Updated Meslo nerd font to v3.1.1. Updated 2023-10-05: Added instructions for oh-my-posh in git-bash in Visual Studio. While surfing the web (do peo...Thu, 28 Jul 2022 05:00:00 GMThttps://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/site-now-uses-gatsby/https://gglas.ninja/blog/2022/07/site-now-uses-gatsby/My websites have gone through different tech stacks over the years. First was maybe... geocities? 😊 Just kidding, that doesn't really count. Eventually, I used LEMP stack. Then my server host upped the amount of RAM available on my server at no charge, and .NET Core had just cam...Wed, 27 Jul 2022 05:00:00 GMT