Last year I wrote 12 notes posts, which is better than the 2 posts I wrote in 2023 when I tried this trend. I’m hoping to do better this year, but we’ll see how it goes.
2026 - Week 01
You can't update your 3D printer's firmware in LAN-only mode
I bought a 3D printer 3 years ago and it looks like its firmware has been out of date for almost as long now.
Ain't Nobody Got kotlin.time for That
I remember this famous scene in the TV show Malcolm in the middle where the father realizes that a lightbulb died and decides to change it, this is pretty much what happened to me as I decided to update some of our dependencies.
Unity games' player preferences on macOS
I’m not a game developer, but after more than a year doing shenanigans at Sound Games, some of my colleagues’ knowledge has somehow transcended the limits of the physical world and travelled toward my office in Vancouver, where I’m now brave enough to spend more time in the Unity editor. I’ve had to learn how to reset the state of a game without making changes to said game and it took me way too long to remember how some of this works from my days building iOS or macOS apps.
Updating dependencies in a gradle project
If there is one hill I’m willing to get mildly injured on, it’s that you should keep your dependencies up to date.
