Nerd Talk
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Learning Godot Engine
So funny enough, I started writing this post well over a year ago. I’ve been wanting to learn Godot Engine for a while now, maybe 2-3 years. I ended up becoming intrigued with Godot when I was looking for a solid open-source game engine that was available for Linux. Godot was the first result that…
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Arch Failed To Commit Transaction (Invalid or corrupted package)
Long story short, this error popped up when I was running an update in Manjaro using the Add/Remove Software program. As a result, the in-progress update failed, and I wasn’t able to get past it. Even after restarting my computer, restarting Add/Remove Software, I still ran into the same error. After some research, I discovered…
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Desire
Camera: RED Scarlet W Lens: 70-200mm with 4x diopter Collaborative project with Tim Searfoss The challenge and inspiration with this project was to find a way to create a narrative story without leaning on the crutch of dialogue and without the use of a “normal” wide-angle lens. Everything in this video project was all shot on…
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Using WP_Query() to sort datetime meta_value
Just like the title suggests, I’ve spent the last several hours struggling with meta_query to return CPTs based on some datetime picker meta_value. Let me explain my setup. I’m writing a plugin that stores data from a custom_post_type for gym classes with a handful of custom fields put into place using ACF. One of those…
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Happy New Year!
Goodness! It’s been a while! I finally got a chance to hop back onto the blog and give some much needed updates (plugin updates, and life updates). I know this is primarily a technical blog and I’ve got more of that goodness coming, but I figure I’d stick with tradition, and do a “happy new…
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God Is
This week I managed to finish up a project that took the better part of a month to go through the concept, design, testing, and final delivery. This project was created for Grace Family Church to introduce a series entitled “God Is” which details the attributes of God and the bigness of God. My objective…
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Divi Visual Builder Not Loading
Divi Visual Builder Not Loading… Divi Visual Builder not loading? I recently installed Divi on a new server and realized that in doing so, I strangely couldn’t access the Divi Visual Builder anymore… The Divi Visual Builder just sat there and spun forever. So upon further inspection… I open up the console to see what…
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Failed to Build Nettle6
Hey guys, I was trying to build a copy of Local by Flywheel on Manjaro Linux, but ran into this error… ‘ Failed to build nettle6 ‘ nettle6 is a dependency of Local, but after the attempted build of the package, I got the error failed to build nettle6 : If you happen to come…
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Open In Unity Not Working
Open in Unity Not Working I’m trying to download some assets from the Unity Asset Store, but clicking ‘open in Unity’ is not working. Chrome prompts me with an “XDG-Open” dialogue. Even after selecting “ok”, nothing happens. So far, there are lots of complaints about the Unity Asset Store and how the only way to…
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My First Game Jam 2020
Welcome to this post-mortem article on my first complete game submitted to My First Game Jam 2020. This was such an amazing experience, I want to share as much as I can. It’s good to be back! I feel bad for dropping the ball on weekly posts… especially after doing it for an entire year!…