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Thursday Turn Out - 01/08/2026

ThursdayTurnOut

Thursday Turn Out - 01/08/2026

I have an hour-long commute to and from work every morning. Those two hours are spent listening to podcasts and occasionally thinking my way through coding problems. Such was the case Tuesday morning, when I was trying to figure out why my “infinite scrolling” code wasn’t working. The Place

08 Jan 2026
Monday Map Out - 01/05/2026

MondayMapOut

Monday Map Out - 01/05/2026

Yesterday, I reckoned that one of my goals for this week was to determine which coding objectives I should tackle next week. I slept on it, opened up Trello, and did this: My goal is to complete and release a “combat prototype” by Monday, May 4th. The combat needs to

05 Jan 2026
Sunday Show Out - 01/04/2026

SundayShowOut

Sunday Show Out - 01/04/2026

School starts back tomorrow: before we get into our normal classes (for me, that’s general chemistry), we have a week-long special projects course where we can teach any subject we wish, as long as it has an academic component. I chose the early history of webcomics and how that

04 Jan 2026
Thursday Turn Out - 01/01/2026

ThursdayTurnOut

Thursday Turn Out - 01/01/2026

It’s 2026! I know this because I had to correct the name of both this post, and the Word file I used to draft it, from 2025. That’s the new “previous year in the checkbook” in a tap-to-pay society. My coding goal this week was to add knockback/

01 Jan 2026
Monday Map Out - 12/29/2025

MondayMapOut

Monday Map Out - 12/29/2025

It’s the last week of my holiday break and my goal is to make it count. I’ve been getting up at 3:45 AM every morning during break to work on Just Beneath the Holler and that habit may be the only thing that’ll keep me working

29 Dec 2025
Sunday Show Out - 12/28/2025

Just Beneath the Holler

Sunday Show Out - 12/28/2025

In the last devlog, I said it should be possible for me to use FL Studio to create a looping music track within a week. And it was indeed possible, and it did indeed happen. It’s not finished, and it’s not polished, but it’s pretty good. So,

28 Dec 2025
Monday Map Out - 12/22/2025

Music

Monday Map Out - 12/22/2025

It may surprise you to find this out, but I was a bit of a geek in school. Yes, aside from the whole “new game developer” thing I also played Magic (I tapped out during Alliances because I was a broke college kid) and was in band. The eight years

22 Dec 2025
Sunday Show Out - 12/21/2025

Just Beneath the Holler

Sunday Show Out - 12/21/2025

All I wanted to do was code a simple combat system. But then I noticed a weird bug. That bug became a coding hydra whose heads would not let me rest until they were all removed. And once that hydra was slain, its final head sprouted into a new, unconsidered

21 Dec 2025

Just Beneath the Holler

Sunday Show Out - 12/14/2025

I've been working sporadically on Just Beneath the Holler since the summer and I've made some progress. At the current rate, however, I'd finish the game at approximately the same time as the heat death of the Universe. So, this website will serve as

14 Dec 2025
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