https://www.radicaledward101.com/ Recent content on radicaledward101 Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 05 May 2018 22:51:18 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/about.html Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/about.html Hi my name is Edward Modecki-Mellett. Around the interwebz you can usually find me posting as radicaledward101. In March of 2011 I graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.S. in Computer and Information Science. Before that I attended Bishop Watterson High School, and Our Lady of Peace. In June of 2011, I began work at Tata Consultancy Services in Milford, OH, near Cincinnati. I enjoyed the work, but I missed Columbus quite a bit. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2026/09/02/marriage.html Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2026/09/02/marriage.html I’m married now! We had a wonderful ceremony and reception. My wife worked so hard on everything to make it absolutely amazing! I put in a lot of work as well of course, but she really owned the event. The planning and lead up activities pretty much consumed our entire existence this year. Now I’m trying to remember how to relax. Miniatures With the wedding prep going on, I haven’t done much hobby stuff at all, but I did manage to play a couple of rounds of Space Station Zero. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2026/06/23/new-energy.html Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2026/06/23/new-energy.html I’ve been thinking a lot about life and what I want to do, but I haven’t really gotten anywhere. The whole world seems to be in flux anyway. So it’s a perfect time be confused along with everyone else. I’m finding that I need to strap down everything I can to stay sane. But even as I strap things down more things fly away. I have 3 big tentpole creative projects that I hardly ever work on, but that take up a significant chunk of my mental energy. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/07/13/all-kinds-of-things.html Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/07/13/all-kinds-of-things.html The big news is that we’re engaged! I’ve been working toward this for a long time and I finally set things up so I could ask the way I wanted. And she said yes! It was a great day! Friday was a not so great day, we got rear ended on the freeway. Luckily everyone is ok, but the back of our van is smashed in. So we’re car-less until the insurance companies sort stuff out. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/06/08/columbus-arts-festival-2025.html Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/06/08/columbus-arts-festival-2025.html I started a new project this weekend that is taking a lot of my attention. I don’t know how I feel about it yet. We went to the Columbus Arts Festival today and it was great! We saw The Whiteouts, a local punk band I’m otherwise unfamiliar with, play a set under the railway bridge. Such a unique venue. I bought a print from Taylor C Adams. We weren’t able to stay too long, but we got to see almost everything and we got some excellent soft pretzels! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/26/never-trust.html Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/26/never-trust.html “Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t tell where it keeps its brain.” - Arthur Weasley1 In the age of AI this quote pops into my head unbidden, but before it was so directly applicable, I started using a reworded version: Never trust anything if you can’t tell where it gets its funding. This is a different way of thinking of the warning “you’re not the customer, you’re the product. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/24/patreon-philosophy.html Sat, 24 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/24/patreon-philosophy.html I’m sending you money. This is what I ask in return: Do stuff. Use this money for you Work in public I’m paying you because I want you to be able to keep doing what you’re doing, or do something new! I expect you to use this money to eat. To go to the doctor. To buy your bus pass. To pay for web hosting. To go on vacation. To pay for whatever you need to be yourself and keep creating what you want to create. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/11/ramping-up-week-notes.html Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/05/11/ramping-up-week-notes.html This week I returned to an essay I’ve been struggling to write for over a year. It feels like once a month or so I start over. Just refining and re-bullet-pointing the same ideas over and over again. All of the lists I have so far are pretty much the same. I think I need to find a solid 8 hours of contiguous free time to bang out a full draft. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/28/vacation-week-notes.html Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/28/vacation-week-notes.html Just got back from vacation and we found the coolest store! Retro Jake’s in Richmond, Indiana. They’ve got a sizable arcade and an excellent game selection from NES through the modern era. We spent a couple of hours there. I played a few games of DDR, a little Mortal Kombat 4, a bit of CarnEvil, and picked up a few games for my collection. I got Streets of Rage 2 and Menacer for Sega Genesis and Star Wars Racer Revenge for PS2. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/20/easter-week-notes.html Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/20/easter-week-notes.html Happy Easter! This was a packed week! No special topic this time, but still lots to talk about! Games This was a game heavy week! I played the demos for Urbano, Haste, Rollin Rascal, and So to Speak. In particular I highly recommend Haste for its gameplay. I’m a little disappointed to find that it’s a rogue-like though. I would have much preferred something that respects my time more. The game-feel is absolutely stellar though. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/14/side-quests.html Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/14/side-quests.html This week I gave a tiny peek behind the curtain on what I’ve been working on with a technical blog post about Sega Genesis development. I don’t think I will have anything else to share in that space anytime soon, if ever, but I would love to prove myself wrong. Writing that post was part of a new plan I have to hopefully create smaller side quest releases as I work. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/11/rescomp-extension-sgdk.html Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/11/rescomp-extension-sgdk.html SGDK is an amazing framework for building Sega Genesis games. Among its features is the tool rescomp, which compiles resources like images and audio for use inside your game. The rescomp tool offers a path for extension. I’m currently using a rescomp extension to import my collision map from a csv file in ldtk’s super simple export. This guide should allow you to more easily write extensions for your specialized resources as well. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/06/week-notes.html Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2025/04/06/week-notes.html The world is impressively messy right now. I must admit that I’ve mostly turned inward. My focus over the last few months has been on a project that I don’t really want to talk about until I have something to show. Hopefully the first small piece will be ready to present soon. I’ve enjoyed over a year of taking the bus to work now. The difference between busing and driving is incredible. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/10/03/about-ai.html Thu, 03 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/10/03/about-ai.html I won’t be using generative AI on this website. I won’t be using generative AI on my phone. I won’t be using generative AI on my personal computer. I’ve been trying to collect my thoughts on generative AI for months. I can’t seem to write something that I’m completely happy with. So I’m going to post this as-is. All opinions are a work in progress. For the rest of this article assume AI means generative AI. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/09/30/metaphor-refantazio.html Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/09/30/metaphor-refantazio.html So I played the demo of the new game from the Persona team, Metaphor ReFantazio. Most of it anyway. I won’t be buying it. Normally I wouldn’t want to post a negative review of anything, but I think my reasons behind that decision are interesting and say something about my identity. So here we are. I’m about 7 hours in. Many of my favorite games are not much longer than that. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/09/06/catching-up.html Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/09/06/catching-up.html This past weekend we went to Matsuricon. We had an excellent time! We got to see ProZD review Ohio foods in person! The AMV competition entrants were great. The dealers hall had a lot to offer. I’m old now. I’ve felt this for a while. My joints hurt in the morning. I’ve got a handful of mild chronic illnesses to manage. I struggle with staying up late. But my girlfriend and I still had a place at Matsuricon. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/05/05/low-buy.html Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/05/05/low-buy.html At the start of this year, I decided to take up the “No Buy Year Challenge” that got popular on YouTube around New Years. More specifically I went for the “Low Buy” variant. If you’re not familiar, the challenge is to go a whole year without buying anything, outside of a few predetermined exceptions like food and toiletries. I found out about the idea from this video by Grace Nevitt, but there are a ton of other videos out there. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/01/15/winter-cleaning.html Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2024/01/15/winter-cleaning.html I just closed all 228 of my open mobile tabs. I went through each and every one first, putting the ones worth saving in appropriate places in my notes, TODO lists, to read lists, and wish lists. My open tabs had become a sort of an awkward unstructured TODO list of their own. I had tabs open for things I wanted to buy, articles I wanted to read, websites people had shown me on Discord, articles that bloggers had referenced. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/12/03/nothing-changes.html Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/12/03/nothing-changes.html In this case the main message - “nothing changes if nothing changes” - a call to actively engage in your own life - is something I needed to hear. It is an excellent shorthand phrase for a theme I’ve seen before but often forget. “People have to save themselves. One person saving another is impossible.” -Meme Oshino, Bakemonogatari While the “nothing changes” version of the message is excellent branding and shorthand for the concept, It undersells the problem. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/11/24/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.html Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/11/24/zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom.html Spoilers probably. You have been warned. I originally wrote the following at the beginning of October 2023. It is now the end of November. I’ve been hesitant to post it because, pretty much immediately after writing it, I finally spent some time in the underground after spending 20+ hours solely on the surface. If you’ve played the game, you’ll know that means I unlocked an ability that I probably should have unlocked much earlier, which means some of my observations are a little… off. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/10/01/fall-2023.html Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/10/01/fall-2023.html I took a break from blogging this summer. It was somewhat intentional as I had nothing to write. The format I had here was boring me and I couldn’t figure out what else to write. Still, I feel better when I’m writing. So not writing at all has probably done more harm than good. My departure from the blog started out as an experiment with morning pages - a meditative practice where you write from stream of consciousness for 3 pages each morning. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/08/14/blag-article-wiki-links-in-hugo.html Mon, 14 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/08/14/blag-article-wiki-links-in-hugo.html Edit 2025-06-27: Since I originally wrote this article I’ve gone back and added similar syntax for image links! The article has been updated accordingly. If you would like a copy of the original article find me on Discord and I’ll send you a copy. Since I started using Hugo for this site there’s been one major missing feature for me - wiki style links. In this article I will describe a hack to add the syntax as part of a custom theme. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/04/09/busy-april.html Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/04/09/busy-april.html As winter comes to a close I’m prepping for a busy April. We’ve got multiple trips out of town planned. The Columbus Crew season is in full swing. The weather is nice enough that I can start working in the garage again! I’ve got a library hold placed on Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act that should be ready soon and I’ve been working my way through my first read of Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/19/lists-refresh.html Sun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/19/lists-refresh.html One of the very first things I created on this site was my list of lists. At the time I had intended for it to be kept up to date as I found new stuff and my tastes changed. What I’ve found is that much of my personality was cemented in place in high school and college. I’ve made very few changes. More recently though I’ve found that my tastes are changing. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/12/identity.html Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/12/identity.html I’ve been struggling a lot with my identity lately. The eternity of 2020 has done a lot to push mortality into the minds of everyone. But I also feel that I’ve been experiencing a heightened push in that regard from other angles as well. We watched Breaking the Rules, which was really not very good, but did make me think. Then I got the kidney stone over the holidays, which, while not life threatening, kind of put my life on pause for a month. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/05/full-weekend.html Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/03/05/full-weekend.html This weekend was huge! I feel like the year is really getting started :) On Friday my girlfriend and I went to The Arnold Fitness Expo. We took the bus because I like to take the bus to the convention center. Unfortunately it was raining quite hard and we got soaked getting to the bus stop. Despite never really drying out, we had a great time! The highlight of the event was getting to see a bunch of World Chase Tag matches live. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/02/10/graceful-degradation-in-web-libraries.html Fri, 10 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/02/10/graceful-degradation-in-web-libraries.html Web UI libraries should do everything in their power to render something relevant given absolutely any input. This, even if the consumer fails to include the necessary input for the component in question to function correctly. When graceful degradation is discussed in programming it is generally in regard to what a web app should do when various web features are not supported: if JS is disabled, do X. If the api fails, do Y. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/29/intentionality.html Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/29/intentionality.html I’ve been leaving a note at the end of a lot of my writing to “do the thing I want to do, not the thing that is easy.” I think I’ve actually been managing to do that a little. I may not be able to keep it up all the time (or at all!) but it really does feel good when I can do it. Above anything else, Obsidian has helped me to succeed in this area. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/23/ohayocon-2023.html Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/23/ohayocon-2023.html My girlfriend and I went to Ohayocon this weekend. It was great! Really good to be back at a con after so much time. This was our first con since the lockdown. We decided to ease our way in and did Saturday only. We attended panels on zine making, slice of life anime, and traveling to Japan. The slice of life anime panel gave me a kick in the pants to start watching Super Cub and reconsider Kaguya-sama (although calling this slice of life is a stretch). https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/16/3-qualities-of-good-documentation.html Mon, 16 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/16/3-qualities-of-good-documentation.html Content Quality Relevance Discoverability For documentation to be good it must meet all three criteria. Failure of any of the three indicates that the documentation is fundamentally flawed. It may be costing you or your organization much more than the time and energy spent producing it. Content Quality First the document must accurately communicate information. It should be up to date when written and updated regularly when the underlying information changes. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/09/arriving-late-for-a-new-year.html Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2023/01/09/arriving-late-for-a-new-year.html I got sick on December 19th and didn’t stop. I’m now on my final dose of some antibiotic I’ve never heard of following shock wave lithotripsy. I’m incredibly lucky it was just a kidney stone (and food poisoning before that). But it did pretty much destroy any plans I had for the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. During my sick time I did a lot of vegging. I had filed vacation for the final two weeks of the year anyway. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/27/another-phone.html Sun, 27 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/27/another-phone.html So I got another phone. Because of this I’ve updated and added to my articles about phone setup: Termux and git hugo rsync I’ve also purchased a few peripherals to try to make up for the sad state of modern phone features. I got a case, a usb-c u-bend, a headphone jack usb-c splitter, and a small bluetooth keyboard. So far I have only tested the keyboard, which failed spectacularly. Whenever it times out to save battery, it fails to reconnect and has to be setup from scratch. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/26/hugo-on-android.html Sat, 26 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/26/hugo-on-android.html I mentioned back in 2019 that I needed to writeup how I’m using hugo to build this static site on my Android phone. So here it is! Only 3 years later First I’ve got my complete setup to clone the git repo written here (just updated!). apt install hugo in termux cd to the hugo folder run with drafts locally with hugo server -D --noBuildLock Go to http://localhost:1313 to review kill with ctrl+c when done Do a final build with hugo --noBuildLock Then push with rsync as detailed in another of my old writeups I’ve had to add the –noBuildLock flag to the hugo commands because of an issue with build lock on Android. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/13/haibane-renmei.html Mon, 14 Nov 2022 01:27:12 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/11/13/haibane-renmei.html Haibane Renmei is an anime I return to again and again. There’s an idea introduced in the first few episodes that resonates with me far outside the bounds of the show: The main characters are restricted to only own items that are used. I never finished the show. So I never learned why this limitation is placed on the Haibane. The more important thing for me is that this limitation sounds like an interesting guideline for myself. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/10/09/boosted.html Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:50:44 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/10/09/boosted.html I got my covid vaccine booster on Friday. Pretty much lost Saturday due to side effects, but as of today I’m feeling much better! Destiny 2 I’ve been playing catch up on the season content and a lot of Crucible (the PVP mode). I definitely think the new skill based matchmaking has helped make the experience better for me. I’m pretty bad, but I’m no longer consistently getting blown out every game. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/10/02/flesh-and-blood.html Sun, 02 Oct 2022 14:20:44 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/10/02/flesh-and-blood.html Following my Dominaria United prerelease attendance for Magic the Gathering, I wasn’t quite feeling like MtG was right for me. Star City Games also had Flesh and Blood at the Con in Columbus. So I had the game on my radar, but, to be honest, I was looking at every trading card game in print in the hopes to cure the itch. Options After watching a lot of videos, I had ruled out Yugioh and Pokemon from my current interests. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/09/18/building-a-second-brain-with-obsidian.html Sun, 18 Sep 2022 21:12:11 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/09/18/building-a-second-brain-with-obsidian.html Lately my YouTube feed has been flooded with Tiago Forte and his book, Building a Second Brain, which I might get soon but I haven’t read yet.* I’ve been interested in the idea of creating a knowledge base for a long time but I never found quite what I was looking for in terms of software. I really wanted a non-hierarchical system like MediaWiki, but with a more easily maintainable storage mechanism than a relational database. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/08/25/final-fantasy-finally.html Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:20:27 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/08/25/final-fantasy-finally.html After more than 5 years of playing off and on, my best friend and I finally finished Final Fantasy XII! I’ve been playing FFXII off and on since its release in 2006. So when we committed to play the game together I was hopeful we would actually complete it. I had no idea it would take this long. We only played on Fridays for a few hours and only in person. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/24/hmm.html Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:10:30 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/24/hmm.html I’m in a bit of a holding pattern here. My freshly rekindled Magic hyperfixation is simmering along. Other than spending money and watching YouTube, I haven’t done much with it. My new plan is to put together a commander deck for Friday Night Magic, go once, and then re-evaluate my priorities. Gaming As expected, I’m finished Destiny 2’s Season of the Haunted seal! Trying to figure out how much time I’m willing to put into Solstice. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/19/magic-maybe.html Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:43:42 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/19/magic-maybe.html So much stuff going on, but in the middle of it all I have, at least temporarily, found my next hyperfixation. It’s Magic the Gathering… I’m pretty ambivalent about this, but I seriously have no control over it. Even though large portions of me want to ignore it, I can’t help myself. I’ve played Magic off and on since Mirage, which was released in 1996. I really like the gameplay. I really like the fun of opening packs and seeing new cards. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/11/break.html Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:34:44 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/07/11/break.html So first the power failed, then our government failed, and then my health failed. I haven’t written here in a while. I went from an American existential crisis directly into a pretty hefty covid infection. I made it 2 and a half years without getting sick, but, unfortunately, the streak is broken. I’m not going to write anything more direct about the Supreme Court here. I’m not going to write further about my time with covid either. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/21/power-fail.html Tue, 21 Jun 2022 22:06:41 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/21/power-fail.html I joined many members of my city in losing my power last week. We’re very lucky. We have enough money that the loss of groceries didn’t really affect us. We were able to go elsewhere to eat, and then to the movies to get cool. I know a lot of others are and were not so lucky. I hope that the powers that be can take this failure and work to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/12/art-or-whatever.html Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:51:20 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/12/art-or-whatever.html We attended the Columbus Arts Festival on Saturday. There were a few artists showing there that I was excited to see, but overall the art itself was less important than the food and the excuse to be out and about. We took the bus to get there, my first bus trip since the pandemic. I absolutely love riding the bus. The routine of walking to the bus stop, waiting, getting on, paying, start stop start stop along the route is very satisfying for me. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/05/long-weekend.html Sun, 05 Jun 2022 16:00:00 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/06/05/long-weekend.html The long weekend stretched into a long week. I wrote about half of this a week ago but never finished. Changes to my routine, even good ones like an extra day off, always seem to mess me up. My sleep schedule is no longer a schedule at all. My mom went out of town on vacation this week. So I walked one of her dogs, Lily, for a few days. She’s a bit afraid of everything, and a lot afraid of me, but I managed to get her to walk for me! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/22/so-much-has-happened.html Sun, 22 May 2022 18:20:04 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/22/so-much-has-happened.html No post last week. My friend was very sick. He seems to be better now though! These past two weeks have been very very busy for me. I had a lot of fun, but also a lot of stress and even fear. I’m going to focus on the good times here, although some of those were stressful in their own way. One of my friends had a birthday this weekend. We went out to a bar at peak times for the first time in years. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/22/sunglasses-fix.html Sun, 22 May 2022 17:53:04 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/22/sunglasses-fix.html A few years ago, my girlfriend asked me to fix her sunglasses. The ear piece had snapped off. At the time I thought that maybe it would be possible to 3D print a replacement, but I couldn’t wrap my head around how to do it. The project was never high priority and so it got buried under other TODOs only to be resurrected this week. While the final product is a little rough, it looks good from a distance and is 100% functional. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/08/destiny-bucket-list.html Wed, 11 May 2022 22:25:18 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/08/destiny-bucket-list.html I made a mini-bucket list for Destiny 2. I can feel my enthusiasm waning and I want to get some big things done before I fall off. This way I can look back on my time with the game with satisfaction, rather than with regret and vague plans to return some day. I tend to leave a lot unfinished when my hyperfixations fall off. The worst part is, I never completely lose interest, just enthusiasm and focus. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/04/they-broke-halo.html Wed, 04 May 2022 22:15:46 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/04/they-broke-halo.html This is a copy of the actual bug report I filed today with 343 Industries, the main dev team for Halo Infinite. I can’t overstate how disappointed I am. Normally I would not condone using bug report forms for feedback submission, but, as stated in the ticket description, I could not find a better way to do this. Halo Infinite Bug Report Title Patch removed all my favorite parts of the base game - skill jumps, mangler cheese, etc https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/02/spring.html Mon, 02 May 2022 17:23:00 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/05/02/spring.html It’s actually nice out! I worked out for the first time in months last night because the bar was actually warm enough to touch. It was a great session! Next year I really need to figure out a better way to heat the garage and equipment for workouts. It stays cold in there for way too long. My Destiny 2 obsession continues, but I believe I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/24/priorities.html Sun, 24 Apr 2022 20:45:04 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/24/priorities.html My current hyperfixation continues to be a pretty big priority for me. However I’m trying to think a bit more and ensure that I’m doing at least some other things too. One of the rules I try to live by is Leave things better than you found them. Googling this doesn’t give me a good source in the first page and I’m not up for digging right now. I try to practice this in an everyday kind of way for myself. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/18/falling-off.html Tue, 19 Apr 2022 02:20:24 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/18/falling-off.html I blew clean past my normal weekly posting time. That’s ok though. I made no promises to anyone, including myself about that. And I will continue to make no promises moving forward. Destiny 2 I had my first real hiccup in Destiny this weekend. I ran into the limits of solo play hard. Then had a big fail in a matchmaking queue that was incredibly embarrassing. One teammate made it clear they were upset as well even without voice chat. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/10/yet-more-destiny.html Sun, 10 Apr 2022 19:15:51 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/10/yet-more-destiny.html Another week full of Destiny is under my belt. My best friend and I finished the Witch Queen Legendary campaign! It was excellent from start to finish, with only a little falloff in enjoyment when we cheesed the final boss. I’ve been very happy with the game so far and there is a ton more to do! We have 2 other old campaigns to do, as well as strikes and dungeons. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/04/more-destiny.html Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:25:45 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/04/04/more-destiny.html Nearly all of last week, when I wasn’t working, was dedicated to more Destiny 2. Bought the Witch Queen campaign and it is just incredibly good. Running it with my best friend. One of the bosses took us probably an hour and a half with just a ton of wipes. And it felt like a fun rather than a drag. I’m 1537 gear level now. Only 13 away from the powerful cap. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/28/recovery-and-destiny.html Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:45:11 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/28/recovery-and-destiny.html Having never really recovered from the sleep schedule destruction of daylight savings time, I elected to take some vacation at the end of the week. I devoted that time solely to two pursuits: waking up on time and going to sleep on time. As a result my brain was fuzzy and I accomplished basically nothing else. Instead I played Destiny 2. I logged about 44 hours in the game in the last week and a half as a result. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/21/saving-daylight-losing-sleep.html Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:45:29 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/21/saving-daylight-losing-sleep.html Daylight savings time has absolutely destroyed me this week. I did nearly nothing I planned on and zombied my way through. I’ve heard similar things from those around me. Instead of pushing through, next time I should just step back and focus on resetting. I have slips in sleep schedule pretty often and that always works best. It’s just hard to remember to do the right thing when I’m already sleep deprived. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/14/polaroid.html Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:40:50 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/14/polaroid.html Over a year ago, my Polaroid 600 Business Edition started draining the batteries of film continuously, causing me to waste a lot of money on unused shots. I set it aside, planning to buy a replacement camera. Since then, I’ve shopped around for a new camera, 600 or otherwise, but haven’t been able to settle on anything. The Polaroid 600 cameras on ebay are all either untested or expensive. Modern digital cameras are only in the high end due to phones. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/06/again.html Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:43:59 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/06/again.html 3D Scanning As I write this, my second 3D print of a scanned object is printing off. By the time I post this a full single-topic article will be up describing my experience. I started working with this device over a year ago. Why did it take me so long to get back to this? I’ve put more detail in the article, but it really comes down to procrastination. Getting this done has been hanging over my head, in part because the scanner is a loaner. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/06/sense-scanner.html Sun, 06 Mar 2022 19:00:13 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/03/06/sense-scanner.html A while back my girlfriend’s step-dad leant me 3D Systems’ Sense 2 scanner. I similarly got access to an old MonoPrice MP Select Mini 3D Printer from a friend who had upgraded quite a while ago. So I theoretically have both ends of the 3D replication pipeline now. Unfortunately, just like with the MP Mini, there are some limitations. And, while the MP Mini has (or at least had) a thriving community to support it with guides, tutorials, hacks, and mods, the Sense 2 does not seem to have the same support. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/27/progress.html Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:30:46 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/27/progress.html I released a new long(ish)-form blog article Please take a look at my latest single topic article, on understanding systems from different points of view, when you get the chance! I worked hard on this! It has been in draft form for more than 2 years -_- I’m glad I finally sat down and cleaned up my thoughts on this topic this week. Airsonic Possibly the last time I will write about Airsonic for a while, not because of any issues, but because of how well it is going. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/26/know-your-system.html Sat, 26 Feb 2022 22:35:43 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/26/know-your-system.html I believe there are 3 things you need to know to interact with any system optimally: How it was intended to work. How people think it works. How it actually works. Knowing how the system was intended to work can help in finding the optimal way to interact with it. If you work with a system with the designer’s intentions in mind, you can take a path that is compatible with their future plans, and even their oversights. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/21/rambling.html Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:16:16 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/21/rambling.html Airsonic + beets My airsonic + beets journey continues. It turns out there’s no really good way to merge singletons into an album in beets aside from re-importing (references here and here). So the tracks I imported with the -s flag have been an enormous pain the ass. In addition I somehow did something, I don’t know what, that wiped all the track data for the Umurangi Generation and Umurangi Generation Macro soundtracks. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/14/organizing-music.html Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:04:02 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2022/02/14/organizing-music.html So I’m attempting to set up my music collection with airsonic and beets. So far airsonic works great… for the music which happens to be in a /artist/album/track folder structure and is properly tagged. So the most common solutions for getting your music organized this way are MusicBrainz Picard and beets. Picard is a non-starter for me because my music is on a headless server with only web interfaces and shell connections exposed. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2020/06/28/valorant.html Sun, 28 Jun 2020 18:51:34 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2020/06/28/valorant.html So Valorant’s big Twitch takeover during the lockdown is old news now… I got into the beta pretty early. Sadly I didn’t have a lot of free time to actually play right after I got in. I did get 3 full matches in during my first week with a key. I realize for most gamers that isn’t a lot, but the first to 12 format is still a pretty big time commitment for me right now. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2020/06/21/corporate-process-change-cycles.html Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:17:21 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2020/06/21/corporate-process-change-cycles.html Within corporations there are attempts at innovation that move processes within the plane below. The hope is that every change will increase speed to market without affecting risk. However, in reality, for a process of adequate maturity, almost all changes will move along the line pictured below. Typically a negative symptom of this is a loop of process changes that repeats infinitely and goes something like this: Firm is at point A - medium risk and medium speed to market Firm finds a reason to consider this speed to market to be too slow (perhaps smaller more risk tolerant competitors are observed) Firm moves to point B via an “innovative new process”. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/24/library-books.html Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:45:31 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/24/library-books.html I have two books to return to the library today: Farsighted by Steven Johnson and Japanese Culture by Roger J. Davies. Until very recently I almost never read non-fiction books. I think school kind of ruined that experience for me and I’m only just now recovering. Farsighted The first of the two books, Farsighted - How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most, was a very entertaining read. It’s the kind of self help book that contains only a few small action items. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/23/cardboard-keyholder.html Sat, 23 Mar 2019 08:28:20 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/23/cardboard-keyholder.html I really want to start making more stuff. To that end I’ve started writing down any ideas I have for things I need as they appear. I’ve posted whiteboards around the house to record stray thoughts and I keep my notebook close when I’m out in the world. One idea that I got was to create a key caddy, kind of like the ones that people keep next to their door if they have multiple key rings. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/17/pihole-pivpn-split-tunnel.html Sun, 17 Mar 2019 18:47:23 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/03/17/pihole-pivpn-split-tunnel.html With much help from my friend Uriah I’ve been able to set up Pi-Hole and PiVPN for my phone. This will let me block Reddit and Hacker News. The combination of those two sites has latched onto the addiction centers of my brain to a physically harmful level. I’ve been losing sleep looking at memes… as ridiculous as that sounds. So what all did I do? First we gathered materials. Uriah provided me with a Pi Zero and a usb ethernet adapter. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/27/open-tabs.html Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:05:28 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/27/open-tabs.html From time to time I like to clear out some of my open tabs on my phone. I do a little write up of each one. You can see the last two iterations of this series here and here. This one is going to be a little different. I have a bunch of long-lived tabs open for a small number of categories. Iyashikei 癒し系 means healing or therapy in Japanese (source: Jisho. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/21/open-tabs.html Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:03:13 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/21/open-tabs.html From time to time I like to clear out some of my open tabs on my phone. I do a little write up of each one. You can see the previous iterations of this series here and here. And I just noticed that my last post in this series is missing a 0 in it’s path. sigh… Anyway, here are some of the longest running pages in my mobile browser right now! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/15/debugging-aem.html Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:52:00 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/15/debugging-aem.html I wrote a new blog post that outlines a number of techniques for decompiling and debugging AEM source code. You can [find it on my company’s engineering blog]https://web.archive.org/web/20230609044544/https://engineering.icf.com/decompiling-and-debugging-aem/)! Update 2025-04-08: It looks like the old ICF Engineering blog finally fell off the face of the internet. I’ve linked to the web archive version for now. I may repost the content here at some point in the future. I also noticed at least one website that has wholesale stolen the content word for word with no attribution, which is super frustrating. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/11/aem-polish.html Fri, 11 Jan 2019 22:04:53 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/11/aem-polish.html I wrote a new blog post that outlines an a binch of little things AEM customizers can do to make their AEM instances shine. You can find it on my company’s engineering blog! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/01/new-year-starto.html Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:21:32 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2019/01/01/new-year-starto.html Japanese Word of the day: くだらない - from Jisho.org: good-for-nothing; stupid; trivial; worthless My friend sent me the sentence “この世界はただのくだらないゲームです” as a quote from No Game No Life - “This world is just a shit game”. I’m not actually sure where he pulled that quote from. So I’m not sure if that’s the exact wording from the novels or not. I’ve really enjoyed NGNL and this is one of my favorite quotes from the series. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/12/31/year-end-review.html Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:18:49 -0500 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/12/31/year-end-review.html This year sucked. However some things worked. Tops Video game of the year Magic the Gathering Arena Arena reignited my interest in Magic for the first time since the Scars of Mirrodin block (2010-2011). Right after New Phyrexia was released I ended up putting my time into fighting games, especially Vampire Savior and I didn’t have any time for Magic anymore. After playing this game a lot off and on since about a month before the open beta I’ve also bought a decent amount of cards and attended a prerelease. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/12/4/open-tabs.html Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:43:43 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/12/4/open-tabs.html This is my second time taking a look through my open tabs. I have a lot of long lived tabs once again! Time to clean house and get some of these archived. Even with all of these closed I still have 67 tabs open on my phone’s browser… You can see part 1 of this series here. From Truant to Anime Screenwriter This is the offical translation of an autobiography by an anime screenwriter on JNovel Club. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/26/a-quick-test-for-json-post-requests.html Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:54:32 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/26/a-quick-test-for-json-post-requests.html I wrote a new blog post that outlines an easy way to test consumers of POST response bodies that contain JSON. You can find it on my company’s engineering blog! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/16/definition-of-default.html Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:54:32 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/16/definition-of-default.html I wrote a new blog post about the definition of default in AEM components. You can find it on my company’s engineering blog! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/03/phone-site-push.html Sat, 03 Nov 2018 19:11:45 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/11/03/phone-site-push.html I can now push to my site from my phone via rsync! I added my Termux install’s ssh pub key to my nearlyfreespeech.net account. I wrote a one line script to make the rsync call that Guillermo Garron describes on his blog: rsync -v -rzz --checksum --chmod=Du=rwx,Dgo=rx,Fu=rw,Fog=r --delete <path-to-site>/ <user>@<server>:/<path> I had to install rsync via the following command: pkg install rsync The -z compression option Garron recommends doesn’t work in Termux but switching to -zz (as the command’s own warning states) does work. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/31/plan-ahead-icf-blog.html Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:31:23 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/31/plan-ahead-icf-blog.html I wrote a new blog post about planning for accessibility, analytics, and SEO requirements. You can find it on my company’s engineering blog! https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/19/making-android-ringtones.html Sat, 20 Oct 2018 03:30:49 +0000 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/19/making-android-ringtones.html I’m adding ringtones via Termux because you can script the process! Instructions assume a ~ (Termux home) start point. Download the file from wherever you’re keeping it. You can use curl or some other such thing. There are some Creative Commons files you can get off YouTube with youtube-dl (although YouTube frowns on downloading their videos at all). youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <link to YT video> You then need to move this to the Ringtones folder (or Notifications or Alarms depending on your usecase). https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/01/quote-of-the-day.html Mon, 01 Oct 2018 12:52:42 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/10/01/quote-of-the-day.html “Not a fan of Christians professor?” “Fucking vermin. Spreading a plague. It’s amazing really. Ideological infection was perfected two thousand years ago. Nothing’s been better at in than Christianity.” -Injection #3 - Warren Ellis It’s important to note that the professor here is not a character that the reader is intended to sympathize with. So this quote does not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ellis. However, with the current problems our society is experiencing with viral ideas, I think we should spend at least some time looking at the history of the viruses that have come before. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/07/13/friday-the-13th.html Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:02:27 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/07/13/friday-the-13th.html I haven’t written anything here in quite a while. Work got crazy and my house projects got intense. I guess I haven’t yet figured out how to make blogging a core part of my routine. Since I last wrote a lot has happened! I attended Colossalcon, which was great! My panel proposal for Matsuricon got accepted. So I need to start preparing that… https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/29/open-tabs.html Tue, 29 May 2018 22:54:35 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/29/open-tabs.html I have well over 100 open tabs on my phone right now. I think I use my phone’s browser as an extension of my working memory. So I’m always afraid to close anything that’s open if I still have active thoughts on the subject. Luckily Chrome automatically archives tabs that have been inactive for a while so my phone can still function in this state. What follows are a few of the tabs I have open. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/28/cloning-github-android-for-blogging.html Mon, 28 May 2018 10:32:35 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/28/cloning-github-android-for-blogging.html I’m writing this entirely from my Android phone! I spent quite a few hours trying to figure out how to get a clone of my git repository on here and hit a lot of dead ends. I tried multiple sets of instructions for AIDE and mGit with no success. Finally I found the Termux app which actually supports everything I need! For some reason Termux was not coming up in any of my searches for git clients on Android. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/27/mixed-feelings-adidas-skateboarding.html Sun, 27 May 2018 08:49:07 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/27/mixed-feelings-adidas-skateboarding.html First, for the video itself, the style and visual choices are excellent. Patrik Wallner has created something really special here. The minimal narratives that are mixed in add a layer of depth that give the video a punch not normally seen in these kinds of pieces. We get to see the skaters waking up, setting up tricks. There’s an extra focus on framing and shots of background are interspersed in a way that reminds me of something from Kyoto Animation. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/20/perusing-my-old-bookmarks.html Sun, 20 May 2018 17:26:07 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/20/perusing-my-old-bookmarks.html I have a lot of bookmarks. Like a lot. With the exception of the ones in my toolbar I never ever look at them after I save them. I always intend to. Everytime I make a bookmark, I figure I will get back to it at some point in the future. It’s usually something I don’t have time for right at that moment or something I enjoyed so much that I want to be able to find it again. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/15/all-consuming-leisure.html Tue, 15 May 2018 21:02:27 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/15/all-consuming-leisure.html We’re all finding that the war for our attention is difficult to deal with. This is a key piece to the modern realization of the cyberpunk dystopias promised to us. I’m constantly fighting and losing against the advertisements and feeds and algorithms. Even the things I like are run in such a way that they are as addicitive as possible. They have to be in order to compete with everything else. https://www.radicaledward101.com/lists.html Mon, 14 May 2018 20:51:25 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/lists.html Edward’s favorites in a variety of categories https://www.radicaledward101.com/links.html Mon, 14 May 2018 20:49:03 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/links.html Links to other pages Edward owns or manages https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/13/setting-up-hugo.html Sun, 13 May 2018 14:10:35 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/05/13/setting-up-hugo.html I started setting up Hugo to run my site. Hopefully this will decrease the friction for blogging and I’ll start writing more, but I make no promises. So far Hugo seems to be a pretty straight forward site generator. After developing Adobe Experience Manager customizations professionally for 5 years this feels nice and simple. When I was picking between the various blogging platforms I had a number of criteria: Minimal Set Up Full Control Over Design and Markup Minimal Cost (this quickly led me to static site generators) Markdown support Full Control over site structure I also looked at IndieWeb support. https://www.radicaledward101.com/artsupplies.html Sat, 05 May 2018 22:18:33 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/artsupplies.html A list of my collection of art supplies for reference when buying new stuff https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/03/17/adding-https.html Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:31:00 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/03/17/adding-https.html So I finally took the time to set up https on my site. For some reason I thought it was going to be harder. Many thanks to the Let’s Encrypt guys for making this the most braindead simple process in the world. I feel bad for not having done it before. I guess I just expected it to be more involved. I’ve been trying to bite the bullet and actually complete things on my TODO list lately. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/03/17/removing-google-analytics.html Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:04:00 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2018/03/17/removing-google-analytics.html I decided a few weeks ago that it is time to remove Google Analytics from my site. I initially included it so that I could mess around with the service because I occasionally use it for work. Since then I haven’t used it at all and I realized that this is just one more source feeding the Google ad machine. No one visits my site now. They have no reason to, but I do want to start creating more content here. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2017/03/01/on-the-501-developer.html Wed, 01 Mar 2017 14:54:50 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2017/03/01/on-the-501-developer.html Note: I’ve back-dated this post to the release date of the video to fill in some history in my blog. While doing this is sort of gross, I want the timeline here to be a reflection of my actual activities as much as possible. Hopefully I’ll write a post about my reasoning at some point. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2016/12/06/flip-flappers-gif.html Sat, 24 Dec 2016 15:38:18 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2016/12/06/flip-flappers-gif.html I cut this gif of the Flip Flappers leads freaking out from the end credits of the show: It’s almost, but not quite, a perfect loop! I wanted this to be a quick one and isolating TT-392’s animation was more time than it was worth. I really enjoyed this show! Note: I’ve back-dated this post to the day I cut this gif to fill in some history in my blog. I want the timeline here to be a reflection of my actual activities as much as possible. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2016/02/07/tumblr.html Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:58:40 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2016/02/07/tumblr.html From August of 2013 to February of 2016 I did all of my blogging type activities on my Tumblr. Hopefully at some point I will move the more important bits over to this blog to save them from the inevitable loss of tumblr in the future. It looks like there are current instructions for doing so on Tumblr’s Zendesk. Most of what I did during that period was drawing. I tried to draw an image a day and then schedule them for posting later when I had a decent set built up. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2010/01/15/mvc2-random-team-generator.html Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:02:30 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2010/01/15/mvc2-random-team-generator.html In 2010 I was heavily embedded in the Columbus 2D fighting game scene (think Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat). Many of these games offer an option to randomly select a character, but Marvel Vs Capcom 2 does not. Character selection for the game is actually quite complex as well. For a short time there was an online util that you could use to get a team. It was very simple and at some point it dropped off the internet. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2009/11/15/kolumbus-5.html Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:19:47 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2009/11/15/kolumbus-5.html KoLumbus is an annual meet up for players and developers of Kingdom of Loathing. I ran KoLumbus 5 in 2009 with much help from the previous organizers and a couple of my closest clan mates. Well over a hundred people attended over 3 days. You can still see a thread were we planned the event on the game’s forum. Note: I’ve back-dated this post to the last day of the event to fill in some history in my blog. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2008/11/10/armadillo-asphalt-apocalypse.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:13:03 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/2008/11/10/armadillo-asphalt-apocalypse.html Much of college is a blur. I was incredibly depressed at the time and I think I’ve bottled up those memories as tightly as possible. However when I Googled myself I found this old game I helped out on called Armadillo Asphalt Apocalypse. I still occasionally talk with one of the other guys who put much of the work into the game. I do now vaguely remember messing around with it, but I can’t for the life of me remember how heavy my contribution ended up being. https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/1987/12/23/birth.html Wed, 23 Dec 1987 03:44:29 -0400 https://www.radicaledward101.com/blag/1987/12/23/birth.html So I was born on December 23, 1987. That’s public record. I’m thinking of maybe slowly filling in holes here in my blag’s chronology with links and archived content from between 1987 and now. I might never get to all of it, but I want to get some of the more interesting items in.