Nerd Talk
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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!…
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How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi Development Server
How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi Development Server Starting with a fresh install of Raspian: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install apache2 sudo apt install php sudo apt install mysql-server php-mysql (mariadb-10.0) sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-apache sudo certbot –apache Next, you just set up your MariaDB database and install WordPress.…
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Jonah And The Whale (Game)
A while back, I was tasked with an animation project that was essentially a video game version of the famous story of Jonah and the whale in the Bible. After assessing the project and seeing how much animation would be involved, and the ultimate goal of the project… I figured it would be easier (and…
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I Created an RFID Check-In Prototype With a Raspberry Pi
RFID Check-In on a Raspberry Pi Hey guys! What’s going on my name is Matt and today I’m not doing a museum update and I’m not doing a 3d house model thoseare two other projects that are crazy and I’ve been doing other stuff and so… This video is for one of the projects that…
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Failed to Commit Transaction (Conflicting Files) Manjaro
How to fix Failed to Commit Transaction (Conflicting Files) Error in Manjaro Linux This error is usually thrown after an attempted package upgrade using either pacman, the GUI, or another package manager. Below is an example of the error: This can happen with pretty much any package, depending on what else you’ve got installed on…
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How to Fix Unable to Lock Database Error in Arch Linux
How to Fix Unable to Lock Database When I try to update my machine by running sudo pacman -Syyu I get an error saying it’s unable to lock the database. Below is an example: But as you may have noticed, by removing a special database lock file, I was able to solve the issue. You…
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The Museum: Update #2
Progress update for my new web developer portfolio. Creating a 3D museum to showcase all my stuff from 10 years of film and video production. Final product will be a static HTML website that features a full screen 3D museum environment that the user can walk through and interact with. If you missed the first…
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The Museum: Update 1
The first update of who knows how many… Super excited to start a new project!
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How to Use Yubikey on Linux
How to Use Yubikey on Linux Initial Setup: Additional Tools: Yubico provides a proprietary 2FA authentication tool that enables use of the key with services such as Protonmail. It can be downloaded from their site. Another tip: If you’re having trouble getting your YubiKey to show up on Linux (I’m running Manjaro), you’ll want to…
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How To Pause and Resume FFMPEG
How to Pause and Resume FFMPEG This is the story of how I learned how to pause and resume ffmpeg. I’m a pretty big multitasker when it comes to computing. I usually end up with a few hundred tabs open when I’m browsing and I always have a terminal open. Last week I was doing…