Cheating Sparky with over 10GB of JSONs, and lots of scripting
Scraping images and comparing them to win virtual currency? It's more likely than you think...
Hi! Welcome to the dumping grounds for my thoughts, experiments, ideas and whatever else I decide to write up.
These aren't particularly well-organized, and I don't plan for them to be - I just write about whatever occupies my time or thoughts without much regard for how interesting it might be. The things I generally tend to think about, however, tend to be tech or programming related, so it's likely you'll see quite a bit of that here.
This site is also actually a proxy of my cohost page! The posts are just presented in a more convenient way, and are generally easier to embed and share.
Escaping CMS hell into CMS heaven
How I wrote cohost-blogger, my own custom blogging software solution built entirely on Cohost, and why GhostCMS fucking sucks
So how are there eyes in the water, exactly?
A visual effect breakdown of my NotITG playable arrow music video made for six impala's "eyes in the water"
IsaacScript: It Only Gets Worse
Or, as an alternative title, "how the number 2.4MB slowly drove me insane".
IsaacScript in 2022 - has it gotten better?
I feel like it's only right for me to revisit this tool once more, half a year since my last post on it.
Reverse-engineering Essential, for the cosmetics' sake
Reversing a pretentious so-called "essential" Minecraft mod to get $4.99 cat ears for free, for everyone.
Metatables - the best (and worst) Lua feature
Please note that a very small portion of this 10 minute article is spent actually explaining metatables.
Dealing with raw image data - a guide to losing your mind using Figura
Don't give Jill a Lua API and networking access. Only cursed nonsense will come out of that.
My adventures in LUKS disk encryption
I will one day learn that living life on the edge with no backups is a bad idea, but until then..
That time I worked on an Isaac DDLC mod
To celebrate said Binding of Isaac mod releasing, I decided it'd be fun to go over the history of how I started working on the mod, how development of the mod went, and insights into how the Isaac modding API sucks balls.
IsaacScript, and why it sucks
You may have heard people in the Isaac modding scene use IsaacScript, a TypeScript drop-in for Isaac modding. But what is it exactly, and is it any good, or is it just a meme?
How to smash a polygon into pieces, quick and dirty
Smashing polygons into smaller polygon pieces with a quick, memorable and efficient algorithm!
The easy and memorable solution to easing
If you've ever written any sort of UX/UI component, you'll likely have encountered the problem of easing - making things move in a nice-looking way. So, here's my idea. I've used this method in a few games and UIs and it works really well.
How I overengineered a stream overlay
What I realized was, the shader design of running code for every single pixel of an image isn't only applicable when your GPU allows you to do it.
You wouldn't create a tool to download cars
Listen, I know it might sound like the post title is unrelated at first, but stay with me here...