• Week 4 Fun

    Today is day 24 of #StayHomeMN. Each day blends nicely into the next, so I actually had to get out a calendar to try and figure out how long it has been. Twenty-four days is not a long time, but based on some of stories in the news you would...

  • Unreal Adventures - Part 3

    I woke up ready to get after Unreal Engine 4 this morning and when I entered my office there it was, ready and waiting for me! I was so happy, even though it was only a small measure of success. I completed creating a simple blueprint project as prescribed in...

  • Unreal Adventures - Part 2

    What follows is my experience attempting to build Unreal Engine 4.24 from Epic Games on Linux. Get Beer. Hamm’s beer is a good beer for building software. It’s America’s classic premium beer, born in the land of sky blue waters, and it is quite refreshing. Open beer. Drink beer. Read...

  • Unreal Adventures - Part 1

    Coronavirus, social distancing and self quarantine is what has been occurring across the country for several weeks. My employer suggested that IT people work from home, so I that’s what I do. I haven’t been out of my house in five days, but to be fair I probably wouldn’t have...

  • How to create executable kotlin jars

    I’ve been oscillating back and forth in my personal projects between using the Go and Kotlin programming languages. The one advantage Go has over all the other languages that I program in is that building an executable binary file is very easy Because of how Go relies on static linking...