#engineering#agents#ai
Some Notes on OMO Orchestrator Claude Alternatives
I'm a big fan of my current agentic coding stack: OpenCode for harnessing basics, skills, and...
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#gamedev#engineering#gamedesign
[23/52] Game Engine-ering: Railway Empire DLCs Ranked
We're going to introduce a new sub-series this week. If you haven't noticed in our previous "software...
Brian Kirkpatrick11 min read![[22/52] Random Software Project: dev.to Frontend Conclusion](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F25jy062b8agbmugse3qv.png)
#frontendchallenge#javascript#three#space
[22/52] Random Software Project: dev.to Frontend Conclusion
It's Over, Man! We've reached the final episode of our three-parter on what was once the...
Brian Kirkpatrick8 min read![[21/52] Random Software Project: Solar Planets](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F0nfuo5pk14glclzvtcry.png)
#javascript#space#yarn#numerics
[21/52] Random Software Project: Solar Planets
What was once a one-parter intended to turn around over the weekend for a challenge submission has...
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#threejs#javascript
[20/52] Random Software Projects: dev.to Frontend Challenge
We're going to use the current dev.to frontend challenge as a means to explore how to quickly put...
Brian Kirkpatrick13 min read![[19/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Statics](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F80kpqt5t6br3wcuyjjrz.png)
#engineering#fundamentals#statics
[19/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Statics
Are you excited? I'm excited! Today we're going to dive into our first specific topical area in...
Brian Kirkpatrick16 min read![[18/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Teh Maths](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fg9rd126ikn28hor40x9f.png)
#engineering#math#fundamentals
[18/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Teh Maths
For a survey course, we try and look at just enough detail to "wet your whistle". But today we're...
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#cloud#digitalocean#terraform#minecraft
[17/52] CloudInit, DigitalOcean and Terraform (a minecraft adventure)
Software time today, baby! And it's something kind of fun. I swear. There's a fun project I recently...
Brian Kirkpatrick10 min read![[16/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Units & Measurements](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fyakx17piym2aa2dhk8nc.png)
#engineering#units#measurements#fundamentals
[16/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Units & Measurements
After the introductory knowledge graph and transport theorem, today is the first segment of our...
Brian Kirkpatrick11 min read![[15/52] The Three Languages an Engineer Needs To Know (or maybe it's more)](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fte73qwxejx9rg9jtct7i.png)
#languages#engineering#programming#career
[15/52] The Three Languages an Engineer Needs To Know (or maybe it's more)
We're going to revert to type, just a little bit, for today. I want to develop an idea that has been...
Brian Kirkpatrick9 min read![[14/52] Fundamentals of Continuum Engineering](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fpdhp0mcooeiccdmcpzzw.png)
#engineering#continuum#mechanics#logistics
[14/52] Fundamentals of Continuum Engineering
Definitely something a bit different today! We're going to look at the game "Railway Empire", and...
Brian Kirkpatrick6 min read![[13/52] Fundamentals of Systems Engineering Models](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fqu1be9398kgjqryn6des.png)
#engineering#systems#models#process
[13/52] Fundamentals of Systems Engineering Models
We're going to continue focusing on key overall concepts in engineering. We're targeting a 2nd- or...
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#engineering#graphtheory#fundamentals#knowledge
[12/52] Fundamentals of Knowledge Engineering: Introductory Graphs
Today represents the first in a long-promised transition of the series away from purely software...
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#opengl#cpp#sdl#glsl
[11/52] OpenGL is Still Decent, Actually
I know... I promised I'd be doing more engineering. We'll get there! But I was consuming some...
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#math#problemsolving#constraints
[10/52] Spicy Math!!!
Fun tangent today--some spicy math! We're going to look at some fundamental problem-solving skills...
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#devops#terraform#digitalocean#automation
[07/52] Automated Deployment with Terraform and DigitalOcean
We've got some code, and we want to share it. Throw it up on a VM! Who has time for containerization,...
Brian Kirkpatrick12 min read![[08/52] CAHSR April Finance and Audit](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F4f6rs3y8cvahukh7u3jd.png)
#engineering#systems#management#accounting
[08/52] CAHSR April Finance and Audit
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKlrY0_VOc Introduction Timestamp:...
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#kubernetes#terraform#digitalocean#cloud
[06/52] Accessible Kubernetes with Terraform and DigitalOcean
Kubernetes can be a beast, if you haven't paid the price needed to wrap your head around the full...
Brian Kirkpatrick21 min read![[05/52] The Beauty of Zig-WASM-Python](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F078o7rhjhkjcjwshnns2.png)
#zig#webassembly#python#dll
[05/52] The Beauty of Zig-WASM-Python
If you're poked around a few things, you know that WASM can be pretty neat. That having said, it...
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#cmake#cpp#msvc#windows
[04/52] MOAR CMAKEZ!
One of the more wonderful things about CMake standardizing C++ codebases is that programs (like...
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#reverseengineering#softwareengineering#programming#career
[01/52] - Introduction and Media Production Pipeline
This is an attempt to document and outline a bare-bones, minimal-overhead pipeline for generating...
Brian Kirkpatrick4 min read
#dreamhost#digitalocean#cloud#terraform
What Happened to DreamHost?
Forgive the Rant What on earth am I even talking about? Here's some background, so you...
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#c#cpp#cmake#git
[03/52] - CMake and Git Submodules: More Advanced Cases
Background There's a saying in political circles: "Libertarians agree on only two things:...
Brian Kirkpatrick11 min read![[02/52] - DFGV: Self-Contained Full-Stack Web Apps](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fbncsc6ry06cb4z9rajld.png)
#flask#vite#docker#python
[02/52] - DFGV: Self-Contained Full-Stack Web Apps
"Stack" is a loaded term. I did a substantial amount of development in college and grad school (both...
Brian Kirkpatrick9 min read
#cpp#testing#cmake#submodules
Basic C++ Unit Testing with GTest, CMake, and Submodules
Reusing C++ projects is a bad enough experience. When it comes to the complexity overhead introduced...
Brian Kirkpatrick5 min read
#javascript#webdev#node#json
Give Me A .JSON, Vasili; One .JSON Only, Please
Meta-files proliferate in a JavaScript package (no matter what Node-based or submodule management...
Brian Kirkpatrick7 min read
#cpp#cmake#sdl#gamedev
Felt Cute, Might git rm --rf
Background A while back, I wrote an article on the evolution of game engines from beginner...
Brian Kirkpatrick3 min read
#kubernetes
3 Commands for Cracking the K8s Rosetta Stone
Honestly, these are more for my own notes than anything else. YMMV. Might add more than three, but...
Brian Kirkpatrick2 min read
#aws#terraform#docker#cloud
AWS Terraform for Single Containers
I recently worked through and wrote up a basic comparison of cloud providers, with the intent of...
Brian Kirkpatrick9 min read
Porting from RequireJS to ES6
Background We have a modest (6-figure SLOC) size codebase for web applications that has...
Brian Kirkpatrick6 min read