Blog Post Listing
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Blog post: How to Make an Anime Quote Maker More Awesome
Posted on August 20, 2021My quote maker remains my favorite code side project. So I can't help but keep adding more controls and features.
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Blog post: What Makes Zagreus a Good Man?
Posted on April 7, 2021Zagreus' character from Hades has been well-received by gamers. But what makes him a powerful warrior but also a good man?
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Blog post: Hades and my Two Types of Failure
Posted on March 1, 2021Hades is a great game, and as a bonus, put my fears of failure in a new light.
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Blog post: How I Debugged a Ruby Program by Stripping
Posted on April 17, 2020A Ruby program I wrote hit a tough snag when trying to download info online. But thanks to the program's dubious nature, I can't reveal the full context so easily.
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Blog post: How to Laser-Cut an Anime Drawing
Posted on November 25, 2019One of my (oddly specific) hobbies is laser-cutting anime images. A few MakeHaven members have been curious how, so I wrote a tutorial on making your own.
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Blog post: Explaining (and Celebrating) my First Twitter Bot
Posted on July 8, 2019After weeks of looking for a workable approach, I finally build a Node Twitter bot to automatically share anime quote artwork.
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Blog post: Eevees, Quizzes, and Singletons, Oh My!
Posted on April 5, 2019I celebrate a long-overdue side project by examining its most important pieces - services, singletons, and which Eeveelution matches my personality.
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Blog post: How to Refactor an Anime Newsletter
Posted on January 28, 2018I revisit my first real Node program to refactor it with more ES6 syntax, asynchronous functions, and anime wallpaper feeds.
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Blog post: How to Make an Anime Newsletter
Posted on July 30, 2017For my first web project that wasn't a website, I broke down a goal that involved Node, scheduled functions, the Twitter API, and a feed of anime wallpapers.