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I thought I'd capture some of my thoughts about using AI as a technical writer. You can read about it on the docsascode.io blog . Here...

As part of a side project I've been working on, I wrote an introductory post about the docs-as-code workflow . Here's the introducti...

I'm currently using the LTS build of Unity (2021.3.17f1) and Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to develop a 2D game with my kids. I'm usin...

As part of my ongoing effort to expose my kids to various science topics, I picked up a Python game development book for kids and I'm wo...

I started playing Minecraft a few years ago because I thought it would be an interesting game for my creative daughter. That turned out to b...

I'm super excited to have opened up the web application version of  Reel BJJ for public Beta feedback. Reel BJJ is a video management a...

I recently ran into an odd problem on my home Windows 10 PC. Even though the machine is my home PC and isn't part of a domain, I started...

I read the documentation on both the Auth0 site and the Cypress.io site about using the two technologies together with the Angular framewo...

I’m using the Phaser game development platform to teach my kids some video game design and programming concepts (I previously used LEGO to d...

I got some nasty errors when I tried to use NPM and Node.js in the new Windows Terminal for Windows 10 (which BTW has a cool split-pane fea...

I hadn't played much Minecraft since a co-worker showed me an original beta version, but I knew enough about the best selling PC game ...

I'm not sure what caused this issue. I've had this GCP Python app running for many months, but today the deploy command failed with...

I got some inexpensive unofficial PS3 wireless controllers for my SUMOSYS retro game console and the standard setup instructions didn't ...

Now that I've got the Beta of Hive Video  live, I'd like some feedback, so I'm getting the word out about some of the best use c...

Having worked in the Microsoft SharePoint space for many years, I know that it's unusual for SharePoint Independent Software Vendors (I...

I'm thrilled to return to blogging after a crazy few months working on my web app for  YouTube videos: Hive Video . The Beta is...

This post has been adapted (abridged) from the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Debugging an Instance documentation. I wanted to see the file st...

Let's say I want to send an HTTP GET request to a Google API using the super helpful Postman application. That's simple enough, I...

At first blush, getting a complete Angular web application deployed and running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)  can be a daunting task. ...

Here's a walkthrough of how to set up MySQL on Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) Cloud SQL service. 1. Create a Google account ...