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Mount and Blade Bannerlord: My quarterly addiction

Written on Jan 23, 2025 (updated Apr 22, 2025)

Bannerlord has turned into one of those games that a few times a year I get addicted to, have a blast but also have no idea what I'm doing.

#bannerlord #mods #mount-and-blade

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Coding

I finally got around to creating my first deployment pipeline

Written on Nov 1, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

For the first time in my life, I have written a deployment pipeline for a personal project. Here's how it went and what I learned.

#automation #deployment #github

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Life

Ranking the POVs in Heroes of Olympus

Written on Oct 21, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

I'm deep into Heroes of Olympus book 4 so I figured now would be a good time to think about whose POVs I enjoy the most, and least.

#heroes-of-olympus #percy-jackson

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Coding

Why am I just finding out about #region?

Written on Aug 14, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

As much as I love to organize my code, I'm ashamed to admit I never knew that #region. A way to create custom, collapsible pieces of code.

#code-quality #vscode

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Coding

You can use nesting selectors natively in CSS now

Written on May 3, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

Nesting? Natively? Yes, please. The new & nesting selector is here and it's pretty awesome.

#css

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Anime

HiDive’s website redesign is an accessibility nightmare

Written on Apr 26, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

I recently checked out HiDive's newly redesigned website. It's pretty... until you look under the hood.

#accessibility #anime #hidive

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Coding

NUXT: Accessing DOM in a composable

Written on Mar 7, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

Accessing the DOM inside of a composable is easy as long as you know you have access to lifecycle hooks.

#nuxt #vue

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Coding

Aspect-ratio is so easy and so awesome

Written on Jan 28, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

The aspect-ratio CSS property is so easy and awesome, how could you not love it? Let's look at the old way, and the new way of achieving an element at a specific aspect ratio.

#css

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Coding

Tailwind is actually pretty freakin’ cool

Written on Jan 21, 2024 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

Modular CSS? What?! Well, it's here, and it's pretty cool. Let's talk about the ups and downs of using it.

#css #tailwind

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Coding

Nuxt3 Prerendering: How to wait on async content

Written on Oct 4, 2023 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

While learning Nuxt3 I ran into, and resolved, an issue. Here's how to make sure the prerendering engine waits for your async content.

#javascript #nuxt #vue

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Coding

Determine if a YouTube video is region locked using YouTube Data API v3

Written on Dec 16, 2022 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

I needed to know if a YouTube video was region locked... so I went down the rabbit hole and learned how to use the YouTube Data API.

#api #youtube

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Coding

Line clamp… I love you

Written on Jul 8, 2022 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

Multi-line truncating has always been rough. But, what if I told you, you could do it with pure CSS? Yes! It's possible!

#css

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Anime

A bit of a rant about Crunchyroll dubs

Written on Sep 1, 2021 (updated Jan 12, 2025)

I just wanted to watch a German dub on Crunchyroll... little did I know the amount of frustration I was about to experience.

#anime #crunchyroll #german

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