Where I write long-form about tech, games, programming, and basically anything else that can’t really fit Mastodon
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Making a Simple WoW Token Tracker Faster
I’ve worked hard the past few months to increase the performance of my WoW Token Tracker for a global audience. In this post, I detail the engineering efforts I made to increased the latency performance significantly, especially for those not in North America.
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WordPress: There and Back Again
I have tried many different blog engines and platforms over the years, but always seem to be drawn back to using WordPress. With Twitter dying, and Mastodon and Fediverse as a whole growing, I wanted to be on a platform that supported ActivityPub, be pleasing to write in, secure, and fast. This was my process…
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Developing a Simple WoW Token Tracker
Foundational to the core of the game, Gold drives the economy in World of Warcraft. The WoW Token is a way for you to spend currency and receive gold, in a first-party manner. I talk about writing a simple and scalable token tracker.
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Choosing a Time Series Database for my Projects
While purpose-built Time Series Databases (TSDBs) have been around for a while, they’ve been surging in popularity recently as people are realizing the value of data-over-time. I’ve been working on some personal projects that make heavy use of these databases, and I took some of the most popular for a spin so you can learn…