Brian Douglas

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2026 - (18)

• I'm a "Software Engineer"
• Featured in GameDev Weekly Again!
• Degrees to Radians
• Featured in GameDev Weekly
• gamebot.studio
• GameDev in JS "The Canvas"
• Bye bye Github
• Use it or lose it
• Binary Search
• Using git hooks locally
• Use an index when sorting
• http_status_codes table
• Add generics to MariaDB Node Connector
• Modeling Tags in a Postgres schema
• Some useful rsync tips
• Install Temurin JDK on Fedora
• The future of videcoding
• 2026 new year's resolutions

2025 - (58)

• Please don't write code
• Card deck in C
• Hosting this blog
• Advent of code d6
• Advent of code d5
• Advent of code d4
• Advent of code d3
• Advent of code d2
• Advent of code d1
• A year of experiments
• Neovim 0.12 adds vim.pack
• Part-time sheep farmer
• Go install script
• Managers, managers, managers
• mise-en-place
• Generate SQLite table types for Typescript
• Literal templates
• Template strings as a view engine - Part 2
• Template strings as a view engine
• Object field validators in Typescript
• Feature flags db schema
• PostgresSQL full text search
• startswith and endswith
• Stack Overflow is dieing, no wonder
• Trimming strings in c
• Banned from lobste.rs and Hacker News
• Making a StringBuffer in C
• Use Codium not Code
• Get inode type in C
• Handle Spring form errors with JTE
• Add a CSRF token to HTML forms with JTE
• Spring database seeding
• New Lib: Blueprint Factory
• New Lib: Placeholder Image Generator
• Request cache in Spring
• Checking ownership in Spring
• Slurp - A Java task runner
• Using CPU branch prediction in Java
• Using Docker on Linux Mint
• Install OpenJDK on Ubuntu
• Yoda Conditions
• Tower of Hanoi in Java
• AxeRunner
• European Alternatives
• Using a virtual screen size in Raylib
• Using astyle to format C code
• Creating a database dump with SQLite
• Optimise SQLite for Laravel apps
• Backing up an SQLite database
• GameDev in C Part 4: A Snake Clone
• I'm off social media
• GameDev in C Part 3: Drawing a Slime
• Linting is procrastination.
• GameDev in C Part 2: Raylib
• GameDev in C Part 1: Hello World
• Homer's Drinking Bird
• I joined social media
• 2025 new year's resolutions

2024 - (19)

• Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
• Rust, the Cunning Wizard
• Partial function implementation
• Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
• Useful ImageData Methods
• Using the form attribute on buttons
• I wrote a test framework in Julia
• Sensible SQLite defaults
• Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
• Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
• Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
• Conway's Game of Life in Go
• Writing a DB migrator in Go
• Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
• Bit shifting to increase performance
• Generate OG images for blog posts
• One assertion per test please
• Slugs with an ID fallback in Laravel
• Seeding a Laravel DB with Irish Counties