Sometimes I need to remind myself to do something real. Sitting in front of a computer, especially when working from home, can really mess with my perception. I think anyone who works from home can relate. I’m privileged now in that I can have a separate work office from my gaming area, but still, existing in the same space without a change of scenery is draining.

When working in tech, there is nothing physically tangible that I can see from all those hours spent developing systems. Yes, you can fix a bug and see the error count go down or see a reduction in support requests— but you can’t touch that.

Perfectionism is the root of my procrastination.

Like this saying goes, the last 20% of completing a project takes 80% of the time. It’s easy to get carried away trying to ensure everything is perfect, and this is especially true if you’re working on a passion project.

This is something I personally notice with this blog and with working on the projects around the house. I have a high degree of motivation when starting a new project, but there comes a point where that excitement is traded for apathy. Once that initial excitement dies down, I find it really challenging to keep my interest in the project.

Deadlines are important.

Frankly, I’ve been treating this place with zero respect. When I first started this blog I had high hopes of posting frequently with all types of content: tutorials, game devlogs, reviews, and any topics I found interesting. Because it was a personal project, I believed the freedom from deadlines would motivate me to have a high level of creativity. Essentially creating a self-perpetuating loop of creativity. However, without the discipline to finish a project—blog post— from start to finish in a reasonable timeframe, I found myself drowning in the direction of this place.

So you’ve upgraded from your trusty G29 to a fancy direct drive wheel and now you’re stuck with a perfectly good shifter collecting dust? Same here! In this post, I’ll show you how I hacked together a simple adapter using a Raspberry Pi Pico that lets you use that G29 shifter as a standalone USB device. This little weekend project saved me about $300 compared to buying a new shifter—and honestly, it was pretty fun to build.

Hi everyone and Happy New Year!

Change is in the air and this website isn’t immune. I’ve had this website on the backburner for a few months now. The truth is I struggled with what direction I wanted to take this website and I was never really happy with the direction it was going.

I love playing indie games and working on projects. But over the last few months I’ve just been so busy that I never had enough downtime to play through a whole game– let alone write a blog post about it. There’s going to be some changes here, but let me let me update you with whats been going on since I last posted.