I started off this year with the best intentions of blogging more detail about my personal projects. Well that didn’t go according to plan. Looking at my previous post dated 15th April and the lack of posts since then means that I failed. 2020 has been a crap year with COVID and the impact on people’s lives. I had grand ideas on things that I wanted to do and get done, and none of them happened....
It’s the first blog post for the year 2020 and already it is four months in. Sadly it isn’t the best time for the world. The global pandemic of COVID-19 is really changing the way we all live and play with social distancing measures taking place in many countries. While I’ve not been able to get out and about it has given me some time to do some cleanup and house-keeping of my environment, hobbies and interests....
Welcome to the new blog layout. After so many years of using a wordpress website, I have decided to switch to a static generated website using Hugo as the rendering engine. This should make the site a lot more faster and responsive as I don’t have to deal with the slowness and dependency of a database. By using Hugo, I can simply create new pages/posts as markdown text files (and using my favorite editor - vim)....
Dear 16 year old me, As part of my quest of porting over your old Microbee computer game Adventureworld that you wrote back in 1990, I’ve been studying the code and trying to work out what the 16 year old me was thinking at the time. I realise that that you believed that this was your first real big ‘awesome’ application, but seriously you really need to learn some standards NOW before you get yourself into real trouble....
I’m now back from hibernation after a long break from updating my blog. I’ve also spent a bit of time away from pioneer space sim. I kind of got a little bit overwhelmed with the detail that pioneer space sim required. I just simply couldn’t keep up with the fast pace of some of the current developers, and it was becoming a chore. It just wasn’t “fun” anymore, so I decided to take a bit of a break from it for a while....