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2026

June

> Speed scale walk animations in Godot dynamically

Run and walk animations have a natural movement speed at which they look good. If you want to move faster, you have to speed them up!

May

> Use Quaternius Assets In Kenney's Asset Forge

Quaternion has made some awesome tiling asset packs. And Kenney has made an awesome app for assebling them!

April

> Side mouse buttons on MacOS

Enable browser navigation with mouse buttons on MacOS, using the LinearMouse app!

March

> Better markdown links

The number of ways you can do a hyperlink in markdown is absurd. And I may just have found the best one!

February

> Get tile rotation from TileMapLayer

Extract the tile rotation from a TileMap or TileMapLayer in Godot 4.6

January

> Code Quality in Video Games

Some projects achieved greatness despite their horrible codebase. But even more never saw the light of day because of it.

> Steam Deck Default Password

Default sudo password for steam deck

2025

December

> Create Click Mask In Godot

Editor script to quickly create a click mask from a sprite in Godot. Useful for texture buttons!

November

> Alfred - Index External SSD

Since Apple's SSD prices are getting ridiculous, I've taken to using an external SSD for some stuff. And Alfred should know about it!

October

> Godot 4.5 - varargs

Godot 4.5 added support for functions with variable number of arguments. Also known as variadic functions.

September

> Switch from iTerm2 to Ghostty on MacOS

The dropdown terminal is the sole reason I've been using iTerm2. Now that Ghostty can do it too, I can save some RAM by switching to it!

> How to run Nakama on Raspberry Pi

Use the Raspberry Pi at home to simulate a Nakama game server situation, instead of running the containers directly on your development machine.

June

> Astro 404 page with Caddy

Point Caddy reverese proxy to a custom 404 document

April

> How to dualboot PopOS and Windows

The linux transition has begun!

March

> HTMX Prompt Default Value

Pre-fill a HTMX prompt with a default value.

> How to lock nodes in Godot Editor

Useful for editor plugins and tool scripts

February

> Godot Rider Hide UID files

How to hide Godot 4.4 UID files when using the Jetbrains Rider editor

> Git Push All Remotes

Push all changes and tags to all remotes in your local repository

> My Godot Editor Theme Settings

I really like the yellow accent color!

January

> Uninstall GHC from MacOS

Remove Haskell from your system

2024

December

> Astro 404 page with Apache

Apache serving 404 routes automatically with htaccess

November

> Self host Plausible analytics

How I run Plausible in a container behind Caddy reverse proxy on a Hetzner VPS

October

> GFM Callouts in Astro

Enable GitHub style callouts in Astro blog

> Prettier Astro in WebStorm

Configure Prettier for Astro files.

> Astro Could not transform image

Error caused by a missing NPM package

> Localization in Astro

Translate your website to multiple languages

> Turso on Netlify

Query a Turso database from Astro with Netlify Functions

September

> I added comments to my website!

Hosted on GitHub for free :)

March

> Publish your Godot game to Itch.io with GitHub Actions

The glory of continous deployment!

February

> Force refresh Godot's file system inspector

Refresh Godot editor file system window with a script. Comes in handy when making editor plugins that create files.

> Force Next.js page render dynamically

It's so simple - just a single function call away.

January

> Don't break words along hyphens

The default whitespace break CSS behavior is to split words along hyphens. We don't want that.

2023

December

> Leetcode 202 - Happy Number

For the love of God - STOP stringifying numbers just to process the individual digits. Please.

> Add captions to images in Obsidian

Have the obsidian markdown editor display images as if they were figures - with caption below.

> Reverse sort with a numeric string key

I actually used this for a Godot engine contribution!

> Enter the newest subdirectory.

Stop rummaging in your side projects directory. Just go to the latest one.

November

> Convert python objects into dictionaries

JSON serialization is one thing. But how to turn your classes into dictionaries?

> Turn screen recording into a gif

Useful script to turn .mov into a .gif

> Terminate a process that listens on a port

You forgot to shut down a development server, and now it's running in the background, taking up your favorite port. Kill it mercilessly.

October

> Add Vercel Analytics to Astro Website

Even though Astro is not a React project, it's extremely easy to add vercel analytics!

September

> New website!

New look, new CMS, still Astro!

February

> Emoji shortcuts on MacOS

It's common to see ':wink' turn into 😉 in apps like Discord. Set this up on your Mac - with text replacements.

2022

December

> My Raspberry will pay for itself in just 25 short years

It's doing its best.

> Change textures from the Godot editor dropdown

Dropdown selection that updates the game instantly.

> Un-dash filenames with Bash

Renaming 3000 files with a bash script. From some-icon-name.svg 👉 SomeIconName.astro

November

> 5 MacOS Tools I use every day

My Mac is a workhorse and I want to get the most out of it.

> Markdown really is a great language

A tribute to markdown.

> Pick the right tool for the job

Astro vs. Nextjs

> My blog is live!

What is a website without a blog?

July

> Automate tasks with a simple Bash script

Write a script instead of checking a website every day.