On February 18th 2023, our family bought it’s first BEV. A 2023 Ioniq 5 which replaced our 2014 Mazda 3. Over the next year, we drove a total of 35,000 km, with many long road trips through extreme weather conditions. Our experience has been nothing but incredible and has cemented that the future is in...
Description For a recent software engineering challenge, I needed to recreate a well-known game where a player needs to guess a 5-character word. I decided to improve my attempt and learn how to better manage state in React using nextJS. A new word is chosen every reload and gets a maximum of 5 attempts toContinue reading “5-Character Word Game”
The Plant Pal Assistant (AWS – LLM) project was part of the 2024 UBC CIC Hackathon. The event provided the required infrastructure for the attendees to learn or practice using Cloud Computing and Generative AI to create creative and…
As a team of 6, we created a narrative, 2d side-scroller using the Godot game engine. As project lead of our team of beginners, my role was to ensure a feasible project scope based on a very tight deadline…
The Nourished by Caroline Theme is a custom WordPress theme derived from the Twenty Twenty-Four theme, designed for the ‘Nourished by Caroline’ vegan food blog and professional business website. This theme showcases the power of WordPress’s Full Site Editing (FSE) feature…
The project’s focus was to learn the principal elements of developing a first-person shooter in Unreal Engine 5. It focused on learning how to implement character movement, combat elements, enemy AI, environment design and managing game modes…
This is part two of the Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games tutorial on GameDev.
I made the obstacle course my own, using the created C++ blueprint to make moving and rotating obstacles…
This is part one of the Unreal 5.0 C++ Developer: Learn C++ and Make Video Games tutorial on GameDev.
For this course, I simply familiarized myself with blueprints, creating assets and using some minor logic to start the player with…
I recently purchased a 3d printer, the Creality Ender 3 V2 and have some prints from Printables, and some of my own prints which can be found here.
For a birthday present for a family member, I decided to make…
Over 15 years ago I tried to learn blender when I was just 11/12 years to learn Blender to be able to add assets into my favorite game: Oblivion. I never got far with the attempt, but ten years later…
Earlier today Valve announced the Steam Deck, a handheld PC built with custom hardware with the support of AMD. The device itself is incredibly interesting, sporting a quad core Zen 2 CPU with the latest RDNA 2 APU available…
This will be my first post with some actual hands-on time with the Spectrum, but it most definitely will not be the last! I plan to answer as many of the community’s questions as I can about the…
Hatley Naturals is an ecommerce website that sells candles and other wellness products. This repository contains the source code for the theme, built as a custom theme for Shopify…
The Parlee Digital Theme is a custom theme for the Parlee-Digital Frontity project. It is built using the @frontity/mars-theme starter theme as a base and includes several custom components and features.
2019 was a fantastic year of learning, challenges and successes. I read some new fantastic novels, I enjoyed new and old songs and learned a ton from some of my favorite podcasts. Please enjoy the list I have made of…
Caroline and I arrived in Lloret de Mar, Spain on September 30, 2019. Though it was our first day in Spain, I will mostly write about our first full day which was on October 1, 2019. On September 1, 2019…
As I was exploring Twitter today, I came upon what I believe to be the easiest way to add a dark theme to a website using only CSS.
When I had previously explored how to add a dark theme…
The physical storefront, office or commercial location is a necessity for almost any business. Business leaders will fuss over the look, the location, the amenities available for clients, etc. What I have often found is that most business leaders pay…
For many growing businesses, the decision to lease new assets is an easy one. They need the assets for operations, their needs as a growing company can change dramatically in a short span of time and in the current, fast-paced…
The last month has been very hectic. Caroline, my fiancé, was offered a job working as a dietitian in Vernon, BC a little over a month ago. Having lived exclusively in New-Brunswick, it was a big decision for us to…