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Completing the Windows version Creating an installer for my program was elementary. I only needed to install an additional extension for Visual Studio. The extension is named Visual Studio Installer Projects. To create the installer, I used the following guide on YouTube: I do need to say that finding a simple solution was a nice change ... Read More

3 12 Rules for Lofe: An antitode to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson The book presents 12 rules to follow to keep your life in control through the chaos that is called life. This is the second time that I am reading this. I lost interest in JP’s work after reading a lot of horrible things about him. Why am I re-reading this book now? While reading... Read More

What is MotionMedia? MotionMedia is a command line application made with C++ for the Raspberry Pi. The program will use the connected camera module to detect people and a screen to display a video if there are people within the camera’s field of view. There’s isn’t much yet but I hope I will be able to present a demo soon! Adding OpenCV to the... Read More

Factfulness - Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World is a book written by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, and Anna Rosling Rönnlund Factfulness is all about knowing the difference between dramatic narrative and actual facts. Everyone gets bombarded with bad news every day making our world seem to keep getting worse. The authors present 10 steps to... Read More

Working on MacOS and Windows Versions I updated the MacOS source to code use char arrays instead of char* to fix memory problems. On the Windows side, I created post-build event commands to copy library files and assets to the build folder and updated the additional library location option in the project properties. Setting up post-build even... Read More

Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Maté The book presents a research on how trauma and stress have long term effects on both mental and physical health. The appearance of autoimmune illnesses, cancer, and ADHD have perceptibly risen affecting a significant portion of the population and medical scientists have been unable to discover the cause The str... Read More

Progress with the windows version I worked on the completing the input logic for the Jumping Ball application. Figuring out character deletion was extremely easy. The only thing that I needed to do is to copy the interiorTextbox.content to a temporary variable with one less character. an iteration with strlen(interiorTextBox.content) - 1 was m... Read More

Working on the windows version Just as expected. More weird character string memory problems. It is unfortunate that I have to rewrite the code that manages character input and deletion. After some experimentation, I managed to fix the character input. I deleted most memory allocations and used character arrays instead. The arrays are very easy... Read More

Upgrade Buttons Upgrades are a very important feature for any clicker game that exists. They give a sense of acomplishment and progress during gameplay. I had a hard time finding a good layout for the user interface of the game. In the end, I decided to just go for it and change things that I do not like. I created a new header and a source fi... Read More

Hello blog! At long last! I got my very own blog! I have been using third party blogging services on the web for quite a while but I decided to create my own thing to have complete control over the content and ownership. One of the problems of the modern era is that ownership has startd becoming something of the past. What is wrong with owning... Read More