Category: Personal

  • Review: Roguelike Development with JavaScript by Andre Alves Garzia

    Here’s a secret: I used to harbour ambitions of being a games developer. The closest I came to realizing this ambition was in high school. Over the course of an evening, I taught myself how to use an early version of GameMaker. My first effort was a hyper-casual game that looked (and felt) like someone…

  • Graphics glitching on your ASUS TUF Gaming F15? Here’s how to fix it

    Graphics glitching on your ASUS TUF Gaming F15? Here’s how to fix it

    Last week, I impulse bought myself a new gaming laptop: the ASUS TUF Gaming F15. I’ve primarily used Macs for the past few years, but I was no stranger to the Windows world, and I braced myself for an evening of updating, rebooting, updating, and rebooting some more. Eventually, I found myself using the latest-and-greatest…

  • Review: JamDoughnut is a cashback app for the impatient

    Review: JamDoughnut is a cashback app for the impatient

    One of my ambitions for 2022 is to dust off this long-neglected blog and get into the habit of regularly producing articles. And so, it’s somewhat fitting that my inaugural post of this year is a review of JamDoughnut, an intriguing consumer finance app in the UK available for both iOS and Android. If you’re…

  • How to mount HFS Classic drives on MacOS Catalina and later

    How to mount HFS Classic drives on MacOS Catalina and later

    Apple discontinued support for classic HFS (also known as Mac OS Standard) volumes in MacOS 10.15 Catalina. As a result, Macs running the latest version of MacOS cannot mount volumes created on vintage machines — such as those running Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Drives using the antiquated vintage HFS file system appear…