A month?!
OH NOES! It's been a month! That sucks. I definitely like getting stuff out every week. Haven't had a lot recetnly. I'm continuing the Magic the Gathering bit. Most of what I've been doing on the site (MTGDiscovery.com) has been around…
Collecting Magic: The Gathering
I'm a collector. Always have been. Toys, needed ALL of the ones pictured on the back. Action Figures, wanted the whole set. It's... a small problem for me. I want to collect. I'm careful about what I get involved with because of it. I…
Ktor on Azure
Ride Along : Ktor API on Azure OK - Who's ready to see me SUFFER!!! I'm working on a website... huh... wonder what's got me blogging again... that's right CODING!!! Anyway - website. In Kotling. Using Ktor. I need a host. I'm familiar…
Stupid UI
I don't like working with the UI. I often exaggerate and go with "I hate the UI". It's not a space I really enjoy working. I enjoy (most) everything between the UI and the Database. I've got my actual phrasing down to…
Kotlin Ktor Static Routing Not Working
OK - I'm an idiot. We know this. I'm developing a site (I'll write about it later... even though it might be up by the time this is published... DEAL WITH IT) and am using it as an opportunity to learn and use Kotlin! I&…
ToSystem - My Primitive Protection
I'd written up an almost complete post about my ToSystem abstraction... and it got deleted... About 4 months later, I'm re-writing it. Mostly because I have NO idea whast I wrote before. :) This ToSystem type had an evolution with my understanding of "objects"…
AntiPattern: Factory Pattern
I'll start this piece with the place I will use the factory pattern, refactoring. It's a great way to decouple classes w/o having to rearchitect the inline-instantiated class. It's still a smell in the system. It still needs to go away, but…
30: Follow the lemmings with care
First - Lemmings don't do that [https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness/]. OK.. Next... ... Yeah... I don't understand this principle. ... Sure. Don't just do what everyone else does, or what you're always done. I've seen some articles recently bashing…