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New Project: What We Lost
Hello! I haven’t posted here in a very long time. I just wanted to swing by and share my latest project — What We Lost. I’ve been writing long, fiery polemics about the excesses of tech companies, how they’re ruining our lives, and the false (though still incredibly destructive) promises of generative AI. My last…
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Review: Roguelike Development with JavaScript by Andre Alves Garzia
Here’s a secret: I used to harbour ambitions of being a games developer. The closest I came to realizing this ambition was in high school. Over the course of an evening, I taught myself how to use an early version of GameMaker. My first effort was a hyper-casual game that looked (and felt) like someone…
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Graphics glitching on your ASUS TUF Gaming F15? Here’s how to fix it
Last week, I impulse bought myself a new gaming laptop: the ASUS TUF Gaming F15. I’ve primarily used Macs for the past few years, but I was no stranger to the Windows world, and I braced myself for an evening of updating, rebooting, updating, and rebooting some more. Eventually, I found myself using the latest-and-greatest…
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Review: JamDoughnut is a cashback app for the impatient
One of my ambitions for 2022 is to dust off this long-neglected blog and get into the habit of regularly producing articles. And so, it’s somewhat fitting that my inaugural post of this year is a review of JamDoughnut, an intriguing consumer finance app in the UK available for both iOS and Android. If you’re…
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How to mount HFS Classic drives on MacOS Catalina and later
Apple discontinued support for classic HFS (also known as Mac OS Standard) volumes in MacOS 10.15 Catalina. As a result, Macs running the latest version of MacOS cannot mount volumes created on vintage machines — such as those running Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Drives using the antiquated vintage HFS file system appear…