I joined social media
Twitter to be exact. Please become an apostle of mine. My handle is BrianDouglasIE.
Hi, I'm Brian. Welcome to my blog. Here I write about the things I've learned whilst creating stuff on the web.
I hope that you will find something noteworthy here, that will pique your interest, and that you will visit again soon.
Recent Posts
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2025 new year's resolutions
In 2024 I started this blog. I was somewhat successful in that I churned out 21 posts in 6 months.
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Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
I did a quick exploration into Lua after seeing is used in the CS50 game dev course.
Older Posts
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Rust, the Cunning Wizard
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Partial function implementation
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Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
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Useful ImageData Methods
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Using the form attribute on buttons
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I wrote a test framework in Julia
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Sensible SQLite defaults
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Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
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Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
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Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
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Conway's Game of Life in Go
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Writing a DB migrator in Go
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Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
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Bit shifting to increase performance
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Generate OG images for blog posts
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One assertion per test please
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Slugs with an ID fallback in Laravel
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Seeding a Laravel DB with Irish Counties