We back (again)

Hey everyone! Long time no see, again.

I've properly gotten the blog back up and running. Just wanted to make a post to go over a few things.

New site who dis

The elephant in the room is probably that I've totally refreshed the website. Over the last few years, the uptime of the site has been...spotty, at best, mainly because something was going wrong with MySQL on my webserver and it kept crashing. I couldn't think of a good way to fix it (I'm very much not a sysadmin guy!) so I decided to just ditch WordPress altogether and make my own site. I know how to program!

So, the new site has been made, and has actually been up for a few weeks now (I just forgot to write a post about it lol). It's fully custom-made, using a fair bit of JS (but no Node; I wanted to keep things lightweight). I pushed an update a couple weeks ago to add better navigation and dark mode, so hopefully it's not too confusing to get around.

I'll definitely make some more improvements in the future, such as better ways to navigate the post list as it grows over time. Keep an eye out. I try to do maintenance on Saturdays at 2pm MT, so if there's ever any instability around that time don't panic.

Current projects

When I last actively did anything on this blog, my fancy new project I was working on was Delve, a survival-sandbox game inspired by Minecraft. I am actually still working on it! The project went on hiatus for a few years because of me being too busy with work, but now that I'm in a spot where I have a little more free time, I've been getting back into it.

I did have to restart almost from scratch because the graphics library I was using got abandoned and didn't work anymore, so I instead went the full psychopath route and programmed everything in raw Vulkan. I'm now at the point of adding some basic game logic in, as well as getting a client/server architecture up and running before it becomes a problem to reverse engineer one in. Might post some devlogs in the future, I just haven't done any yet since it's mostly reiterating stuff I've already done.

I'm also writing a sci-fi novel! Check it out on this very site. It's early in the writing process but I'm releasing it in a serialized manner because I think that helps with my chronic inability to finish projects. Feel free to check back every now and then, or wait until it's done if that's more your speed.

Canada

You might notice me spelling stuff a little weird, words like centre and colour. I'm actually writing in Canadian English now instead of American English, since I'm in the process of moving to Canada. I'm not quite there yet, but I figured I'd jump the line a little bit for my novel, so I don't have to go back and edit it to be consistent later. I use the same program to write blog posts as I do book chapters ( Obsidian ) so it's just set to Canadian English everywhere. Figured I'd point it out so nobody's confused, since it's been previously established that I'm American lol.

Things you might see on this blog

I'm going to post stuff on the blog when I've got something I want to talk about. I've got a pretty wide range of interests these days, so although you can still expect to see programming and gaming related content, there might also be some posts about music, politics, or just general thoughts on life.

I'm hoping to add a post category system in the future so you can filter out topics you don't care about. For now though hopefully the post volume won't be too overwhelming.

Conclusion

That's all I really had to say. Again, keep an eye out - I don't have any RSS feed system set up on this site, but if you want to keep posted with what I'm working on in a social media setting, instead of sitting here refreshing the blog over and over, you can find me on Bluesky .