My Snow Leopard Year: 2022 Goals

I have been mulling over what my goals for this year are, besides some obvious personal ones, since I wrote my reflection on 2021. I had been staring at a bare checklist in my Apple Notes, unable to come up with anything new and exciting. Sure, I’d love to finish Indexing Your Heart by the year’s end. And maybe I’m interested in making a new version of Bug Bounty for iOS using SpriteKit. Heck, perhaps...

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2021: A Year In Review

2021 trailed in with the destruction and mayhem 2020 offered, and it didn’t seem like it’d get any better at first. That is, if the insurrection on January 6th in the US was any metric to go by. I still shudder at the thought of such a thing even being allowed to happen. It’s nearly the end of the year, and it doesn’t seem like we’re in a better place now than before. COVID cases...

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Unscripted: A Post-mortem

Good writing is difficult; between getting the occasional writer’s block and articulating everything in just the right way, it can be tricky to write a story that captivates readers. Taking that piece of writing and pushing it to the next level by making it a video game? In some ways, it’s liberating, since you don’t need to write a lot of details that the game itself could present; in others, it’s just as restrictive given...

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A Curse Throughout Eternity - A Post-mortem of Planting Uneasy Feelings

When I first set my goals for 2021, I had anticipated learning a lot more about Kotlin and its quirks. As the year progressed, I didn’t touch Kotlin at all, instead using Python for various projects (namely Candella AppDB and No Love). When I looked back at my goals a month or so ago, I questioned whether I would ever use Kotlin for a project this year. That concern was addressed pretty quickly thanks...

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