Monday, April 8, 2024

Totality 2024

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 We almost didn't even make this trip. We had seen it before, and the eclipse was scheduled for a very inconvenient time for us. The ori...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Gravity Simulator #1,000,006

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I've written a lot of gravity simulators. This one is the first time I've built one into a game engine. First, I created a Node2D an...

func _process(delta)

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 I wish that GodotScript was just Python. It isn't, for a reason, but I don't know the reason yet. It could be: GodotScript came fir...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Fallout from the Unity Disaster

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 I have always been a low-level kind of programmer. I have a good intuitive sense of How Things Work, but I tend to build my own mental abst...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Velocicoaster

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 On Friday, May 26, I rode the Velocicoaster in Universal Florida. I almost didn't for a couple of reasons, but I am glad I did. I'm...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Shipometer progess

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 We are on Shipometer 23.04 now. Shipometer 23.03 is a failure, for perhaps multiple reasons. First, the shipometer is a HAT for a Raspberry...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Jewel of the whenever: Matrix Multiplication

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Eigenchris (I kinda wish I thought of that first) has a series of videos on tensors. I can't give my opinion on the series yet, because ...
Friday, September 9, 2022

The One Picture that explains Phase Locked Loops

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 A Phase Locked Loop has always been mysterious to me until now. The following three pictures explain it all, and the third one is where the...