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Diablo 2 OCR
If you can believe it: a few neat tools I made to get better items in the game Diablo 2 are the bedrock of my programming career.
This post is about the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool I made to pickup “good items” in D2 and encouraging kids to pursue weird passions.
wrote this on 7 January 2021 -
Is Bitcoin a pump and dump scam?
Whenever rich people tell me to invest in something and give improbable predictions of how much money something will be worth in one year, I tend to think, “How is this a scam?” I remember in 2017 hearing Bitcoin will be worth 100K by the end of 2018 and saw a few friends of mine lose quite a bit of money after the crash from its peak of 19k.
wrote this on 29 December 2020 -
Building Virtual Spaces
The discipline of computer science is typically likened to varying types of engineering such as mechanical, civil, electrical and so on. In terms of planning, this makes a lot of sense. A software developers process is similar to an engineer’s “development loop” in the early stages in the sense that a developer (usually) plans out a broad architecture and
wrote this on 6 December 2020 -
Websockets and the Frontend
WebSockets are great. They provide a bi-directional, real-time data flow between the server and the client. This connection can often be an elegant solution when one needs a constant stream of data to/from the server. There’s a whole host of everyday use cases, one of which will I will explore here.
wrote this on 21 November 2020 -
First impressions: Digital Ocean App Platform
When I first learned about the new Digital Ocean App Platform, I was pretty excited to see Heroku have some competition! We use Heroku on many projects and love its simplicity, but hate how quickly it can get expensive.
I attempted to set up one of our client’s projects on this new platform to give it a spin. Here is my experience.
wrote this on 14 November 2020
