Hopefully you are already using a password manager to keep a separate (long, complex, unique) password for each website you use, updating your software regularly, and not clicking sketchy links on the internet. Another thing you can do to defeat identity thieves is to freeze your credit.
New year, new PC.
A growing list of resources for teaching a video game design course to hippie children at Xanadu.
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Warhammer 40k rules and resources, 10th edition update.
Squad-based combat in the 40k universe.
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Notes from working through the first half of the 8th edition Study Guide.
Notes from AWS Innovate 2023: Every Application Edition.
We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.
Get your phone back if you lose it in the desert!
Burning Sky: Gate Pass, the Fiery Forest, Seaquen, and beyond.
Welcome to Ye Olde Renegade Faire!
Resources for science fiction wargames in the ravaged galaxy.
Specs and software.
Tools and resources for learning the open-source Godot game engine.
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Tools and resources for learning game development, focused on C# and MonoGame.
An example of using Brython to embed Python in an HTML script tag, scroll down for the source code. (You can also press F12 or right-click -> Inspect to view the full page source, but the Python code will be minified.)
Articles, videos, and other resources for computer science students.
Updated again (hopefully for the last time) on 4/16/2022: Covid-19 transmission and positivity rates are low across the state and region. The virus will continue to mutate, so there is always the possibility of a dangerous new strain... Barring something like that, the worst of this pandemic is behind us (at least here in the US mountain west), and it is reasonable for most people to go back to living like we did before March 2020.
On training to teach CYB 110 (Introduction to Cybersecurity and Privacy) for concurrent credit through the University of Idaho.
How to play Skull, a simple card game for 2-6 players.
Hitting the Discord API like it stole something from you, for fun and... no profit, just for the luls.
A packing list for the end of the world.
Making old things new again.
Another super-simple attendance helper. Copy/paste a table of values, and any duplicates will be removed.
Handy resources for any humanoid tortoises on the island of Bosa.
🎄 On the first day of Christmas, my web design teacher gave to me...
Super-simple tool that compares two lists, and writes duplicates to a table. I'm told this is useful for our building attendance process.
Articles, videos, and other resources for web development students.
Articles and videos for database students.
Blogs, tools, and games for cybersecurity students.
Quality of life mods for Sid Meier's Civ V, packaged as a DLC (so that you can still get Steam achievements). No hacks or cheats, these are just bug fixes, cosmetic tweaks, and Quick Turns for computer players.
A growing collection of resources for teaching cybersecurity, databases, and web development; online and in-person.
How to play Blood Bowl and participate in the Boise Brawlers 2020 summer league. May Nuffle have mercy upon us all.
How to play Warhammer 40k, especially Tyranids and Genestealer Cults. Updated for 9th edition!
What's the deal with those Navy videos?
This is not real financial advice. I have no fiduciary duty toward you, whoever you are. Past results are not indicative of future returns. Proceed at your own risk.
When you want to play Magic, but the gathering is not allowed: instructions for setting up and playing with M:tG Arena and Cockatrice.
Leadership is "the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered."
Those who come visit you are enemies. Don’t open the door for enemies.
Scrolls and codices for the wise and venerable rulers of Unicornia.
Some information about how to stay lucid while dreaming, and why you might want to.
How to learn about your own personal genome.
The Four Kinds of IT Work and Eric's Three Ways.
Tools and tips for running tabletop role-playing games.
Saving money is one of those things that is simple, but not easy. You just have to spend less than you make, how hard could that be? (/s) With this framing, it is pretty obvious that someone who is unhappy with their current savings rate has two choices: make more, or spend less.
New research on the human microbiome.
Use a long, random, unique password for every web site where you have an account. Really, use a different one for each site. The best way to do this is with a password manager like LastPass (but a stack of index cards is probably fine too). You still need to memorize your passwords for LastPass and primary email account. It's easy to generate good, strong passwords from any line from a book or song. For example, "He's in it for the quiche, you might as well not ask him for no free stuff, capiche?" ==> !Hii4tq,Umawnah4nfsc?
A reading list.
Some things you can watch to learn about software engineering and DevOps.
In Magic, it's really important to always have a plan for how you are going to win. In particular, one player should always be trying to bring the game to a close, while the other should be trying to draw it out... "Misassignment of Role = Game Loss."
I recently finished a fake travel web site for Spanish students. You can see it, or the GitHub repo.
Recipes for cider and kombucha.
Tell me what you did today, and I’ll tell you who you are.
How to get healthier and stronger.
Information about doxxing, data brokers, and how/why you can opt out. Sort of.
On the practices and capabilities of high-performing tech companies.
Going weird places and doing weird stuff.
On the values and principles of Lean and Agile methodologies.
Here are my transcribed notes from Dev Ops Days, Boise 2019.
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We got married!
Nuestra Viaje a Chile.
I have been a lot of places, and seen a lot of things. But this was something else...
Scrum roles, sprints, artifacts, and estimation.
Burning Man 2016: Welcome to the vacant heart of the wild west.
This is more or less the talk that I gave to some OU honors students on September 3, 2015, as part of a sort of lecture series on 'Majors and Careers in a Volatile Economy'. It seems mostly correct in retrospect, if not terribly well-written.
In what is surely a sign of a deeply diseased mind, one of my first thoughts upon reading the opening chapter of 'Walden' was to compare Henry David Thoreau (unfavorably) with Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight Roy Nelson.
Once upon a time, in a faraway land called New Jersey, there lived a woman and her three lovely daughters. They were reasonably happy, although it must be said that raising three teenage girls is quite a task for anyone, especially a single mother. The youngest daughter, who had been rather unfortunately named Blue, went through a rebellious phase about the time she turned 18. She decided that she no longer wished to live with her family, and began chasing boys in clubs and bars, in the hope that one of them might be able and willing to sweep her off into a life of comfort. This seemed easier than finding a job and roommates, especially since she really was quite attractive.