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  • How hard could it be? 

    Jan 8, 2025
    CoverSlay the Princess
    9/10
    Published:
    Oct 23, 2023
    Author:
    Black Tabby Games

    Slay the Princess is a breathtaking visual novel that explores obedience, rebellion, heartbreak, love, and everything in between. Emotional voice acting, unreliable narrators, and multiple player “personalities” set this game apart.

  • Dec 2, 2024
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    The <canvas> element may be the best thing to happen to HTML since <marquee>. I’ve been using it a lot for various projects recently and thought it’d be nice to collect some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned into once place.

  • Poking NVRAM like it's 1994 

    Oct 4, 2024
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    In early 2022 I got several Sun SPARC servers for free off of a FreeCycle ad: I was recently called out for not providing any sort of update on those devices… so here we go!

  • Using ZFS and Photoprism 

    Jun 28, 2024

    Google Photos is wonderful. It backs up my photos and videos, tags them, and makes them available to share with my family.

    But I also don’t trust that Google will never accidentally “loose” my photos. Here is the process I use to back up my Google Photos data to a self-hosted instance of Photoprism.

  • Editor Mode, and Conclusion 

    Feb 1, 2024

    I recently rediscovered an obscure 1997 Simon & Schuster / Marshall Media edutainment game for Windows 95 that I played as a kid: Math Invaders. In this part, we’ll investigate whether we can enter an “editor mode”, hinted at within the strings contained within the program. There’s even a ✨surprise ending✨ that I didn’t see coming!

  • Everyday Phrases That Don't Make Sense Anymore 

    Aug 18, 2023

    Language is strange – why do we say “hang up the phone” even when using a cell phone? This page documents some examples of “skeuomorphisms” in our common vernacular.

    I’ll be updating this page as I come across more!

  • Reversing (Undocumented) Settings 

    Mar 16, 2023
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    I recently rediscovered an obscure 1997 Simon & Schuster / Marshall Media edutainment game for Windows 95 that I played as a kid: Math Invaders. In this part, we’ll investigate disassembling and reverse engineering the binary to identify an undocumented settings file format.

  • Reversing Asset Storage 

    Feb 23, 2023
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    I recently rediscovered an obscure 1997 Simon & Schuster / Marshall Media edutainment game for Windows 95 that I played as a kid: Math Invaders. Let’s reverse engineer the game a bit and see what we can find; are there any secrets, unused assets, etc?

  • Sep 29, 2022

    Recently I began using Oh My Posh for PowerShell 7+ (pwsh). One thing I noticed however is that it takes upward of a second to activate in my pwsh $profile. Let’s dig in and see if we can’t improve that.

  • Static Websites with Jekyll 

    Aug 22, 2022
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    Sidneys1.com is built statically using Jekyll, and then published on the world wide web, GitHub Pages, Tor, and IPFS. How is this all accomplished, and how can you host your own website this way? Let’s walk through it step by step. We’ll be looking into (over the course of several posts):

    • Building a website with Jekyll
    • Hosting on NearlyFreeSpeech.net
    • Customizing the site layout and adding useful features
    • Hosting on GitHub Pages
    • Hosting on IPFS
    • Hosting on Tor
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