Writing

As folks might know, in my free time I am building a Halo Infinite companion app called OpenSpartan. It now supports medal visualization.

An update on the OpenSpartan development and how data within the app is stored.

I alluded to the fact that in my free time I am building a little project called OpenSpartan. I thought I’d share a bit more as to what it is.

As I am building OpenSpartan as the experience to analyze stats for Halo Infinite, I wanted to have a quicker way to analyze my performance.

I am both surprised and not surprised - AWS announced (close to a month ago) the fact that they are retiring the AWS documentation on GitHub.

I thought that it’s worth for me to at least try to use Linux as a daily driver and build my own opinion about the operating system.

The new PowerToys are out (we’re at version 0.70.0) and with it comes a new version of Awake, the caffeinate tool that folks are used to on a Mac, brought to life on Windows.

I was recently setting up a new Windows machine for work - a desktop machine that actually has enough storage for me to run local SQL experimentation. I diligently followed the steps to create a bootable Windows 11 Enterprise USB, got the disks properly formatted, installed the OS, and tried to start customizing everything to my liking only to hit a brick wall.

If there would be some absurd world where I would be able to choose two pieces of the common vocabulary that should just vanish, it would be “just” and “works for me.” We, folks in tech, got way too comfortable throwing these around.

If product management was ever perfected and applied evenly to every single company and industry, we’d likely swim in products that solve all our problems. Unfortunately, good product management is unevenly distributed and often takes on patterns and practices that are very far from optimal.