Zack Mulgrew

I haven’t booted my Arch Linux box in over two years. Yesterday I booted it up and did a full system upgrade. And it worked. No issues. Very happy.

My next project will make extensive use of <iframe>s and I couldn’t be more excited. #web2point0

The XNA/MonoGame content pipeline is... interesting. When it works, it works, though. That’s good.

I’m going to work on the game tonight. #gamedev

I used to write functions with only one return statement. Now I fail fast and exit early. It’s possible for people to change.

Currently executing a plan to migrate an application from Scala to Java. I’m going to miss writing Scala every day :(

I did it. I finally did it. All socks came out of the wash in pairs. This is some kind of record.

Today I had two different team mates review a piece of code I wrote during a refactor. I got a lot of great feedback. The interesting thing is that I got two completely opposite opinions, which I must now figure out how to reconcile. #programming

I did something amazing today. I upgraded from webpack 1 to webpack 4 and it only took me all day.

I got a Pac-Man plushie for my daughter. She calls him “waka”.

Working on the game again after a long break. Finally getting around to cleaning up all the things... #refactoring #gamedev

Also now I can render more than one room at a time... so that’s good ;)

Rewrote my map rendering code using code that I wrote ~5 years ago as the base. Interesting how my design process ends up being cyclical. Went from C++ to C# but the shape is mostly the same. #gamedev

Fixed it. The problem was I had been serializing in row-column order but deserializing in column-row order. Also I had been computing the row offset using the width of the wrong area . Good news is now I can load Tiled maps!