Creating New From Old – Home Movie Magic

Creativity and filmography seems to run in the family. My refugee grandfather was an avid home movie enthusiast before anyone else we knew. His inspiration kicked off three generations of Creative Types, but his life's work sits hidden away in a film can. It is time for that to change - and time to teach MY grandkids producing home movies, right from the beginning.

New Tech Success Cycle

Business success depends on a hundred factors carefully managed with constant watch and handling, focused on all the balls in rotation. Paying attention to EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME will turn tears of pain to tears of happiness.

3D Animation: Juggling Perspectives & Connecting Dots

Seeing is one thing; doing is another. I have had my hands on 3D animation software from day 1.1, but I lacked the time and willpower to slog through slow computer processor rendering. While it was fun to behold, 3D technology has changed like quicksilver. This is the story of what flowed through my hands, and slowed through my mind.

How to Build a Simple TCP Client in C

engram Command Line Interface in C

Fake Fact Friday: August 12, 2022

How to Build a Simple TCP Server in C

Building a Promise Pool in TypeScript

Switching to C Over 'Modern' Programming Languages

In computers, we often refer to a native language as the language understood by the computer. I've recently flipped this around in my ponderings and thought more about what my personal native programming language is.

El Logo Loco - Design at the Five & Dime

Logos have a long history of group, product and ideology representation. Modern logos symbolize the organizations and brands they represent, and act as an identifying trademark for entities of all types. What used to be an expensive and lengthy logo design process is now a DIY dream.

July 2022 Newsletter

VHS Is Back (Confessions of a Former Tape Junkie)

Did you hear VHS is making a comeback? Poor picture quality did not matter back then - why would it now? Having dumped a personal fortune into the format, there is no pleasure in dumping unfortunate tapes in the garbage. Press Pause on this Rewind.

How Can a 10 Second Video Take All Day? Part 2

As video content gets shorter in step with modern attention spans, entertainment value needs to go up. How do you figure out the creative parts and pieces in short order? Fortunately, thousands of media assets are available online, shaving eons off production time.

How Can a 10 Second Video Take All Day?

In the age of Tik-Tok and flavor-of-the-month mob apps that instantly share minute insights to the world, a more complex video will take more time to produce. Here is a creative project review of our own making.

Five Positive Interactions for Every Negative One

One piece of leadership advice that has stuck with me is the idea that for every negative interaction you have with someone, you need to have 5 positive ones to offset every 1 negative

Building Pong in C with SDL2 and Emscripten: Part 1

Simple demonstration of compiling a C SDL program to web assembly using emscripten

Car Trek Technology - Joy Ride of the Century

The world as we know it was made small by automobiles, and made bigger by the car radio. While it took many basic inventions and technologies (metals, wheels, lubricants, etc.) to build the first car, technology now pervades through all parts of the automotive food chain. The pace of change was not always so fast, so enjoy this slow walk through mobile dashboard technology.

Old Movies Are Garbage (In the End)

For over 100 years, film presented the world before our eyes in ever increasing volume and scale. Adding up to BILLIONS of feet of product, no movie patron gave too much thought about where all the movie reels go when they leave the theater.

June 2022 Newsletter

Introducing my dad as a new author

Reflections after a year of publishing on Medium

Reflecting on the Future - A Mirror Sample of Thinks to Come

Mine and mind the media of the past to posit a picture of the future - in small measured samples. We will think quietly and calmly before expressing thoughts and opinions resulting from forward reflection; and aim to throw back light or sound on bygone eras with words and images.

How to Use Path Aliases With Create React App (CRA), Webpack, and Typescript

Building an App for Myself to Enhance Language Learning

I've started to craft my own structure for learning and as usual it has led me to build a small app to help consolidate knowledge

Taking Flight Without a Smart Phone

Reflections after one month with a feature phone

How to Deploy a Simple NodeJS Server to Linux VM

An introductory lesson on how to run a nodejs server on linux VM

I Can No Longer Compile My First Flash Game

A tale about game development and techonlogy obsolescence

How to Replace Webpack in Create React App With esbuild

My Experience With the University of British Columbia (UBC) Co-op Program

A reflection on my experience through all stages of the co-op process from student to employer

Hey Siri, We're Breaking Up

Motivations behind switching from a smart phone to a feature phone

Every Workday Should be a Hackathon

Getting stuff done and having fun don't have to be mutually exclusive

3 Lines of Code Shouldn't Take All Day

Reflections on my time at Electronic Arts and techniques used to improve iteration times in video game development

Using Github Actions to Deploy a React App and Express API Over SSH in 15 seconds

How to Build a Note Taking Command Line Application With Rust: Part 2

Reading, updating, and deleting notes from an sqlite database

How to Set Up Server Side Rendering (SSR) With React, express.js, and esbuild

Tutorial for setting up SSR for a React app with express.js and esbuild

How to Build a Note Taking Command Line Application With Rust: Part 1

Creating and saving notes to an sqlite database

Building My First Command Line Interface (CLI) with Rust

After telling myself over and over that today is the day I start learning rust. I finally successfully built a command line app for engram.

Bundling Your Node.js Express App with esbuild

Tutorial for setting up esbuild to bundle an express.js app

Breadth-First Search a Walk in the Park

Today I went for a walk, and I'd like to take you along for a ride