Posts tagged "software"

Agentic Development: Porting from ImGui to Spry

Rewriting Cleat's UI and open-sourcing the toolkit that replaced ImGui

Docs Aren't an Artifact (anymore)

Text-To-ASCII: A Free Browser-Based ASCII Art Generator with 500+ Fonts

ASCII art isn't a relic of the '90s — it's thriving in Discord servers, GitHub READMEs, code comments, and Slack channels everywhere. We built a **free, browser-based Text-To-ASCII generator** that puts 500+ fonts, ANSI color gradients, and one-click platform-specific copy at your fingertips. No install required.

Building the Chiptune Challenge: A Year-Long Music Competition Platform

A deep dive into the architecture behind the Chiptune Challenge -- a year-long 8-bit music competition featuring daily song releases, multi-tier voting, Discord authentication, bracket tournaments, and 12 unique monthly themes.

lolrus

Build The Tool You Need. Introducing: lolrus

GameDev Detour & Year In Review

We’ll return to the regularly scheduled GameDev programming in January. Most of December was spent on a detour. The detour was to help make my life a bit easier. Actually…a lot easier.

Zixel: The Miscellaneous Sprint

Sprint 4 took a little bit of an unexpected detour. I started working on adding some core features to the room system. Notably, transition effects between rooms. After the room transitions were functioning I took a brief detour to add some 2D lighting to the game.My goal is to start working on The

Zixel: Sprint 3

The third sprint of Zixel is in the books and went by quickly!In just one week, I was able to tackle:

Building vs. Buying Software in the Agentic AI age

Throughout my career, I’ve held several positions as a software engineer. When developing an in-house solution, the “Build vs. Buy” argument was always a hot topic.Why pay a developer “X” dollars to build a feature that “Y” developers already built? Shell out the cash, and move on, right? Even be