Sanders Lauture

Learning Curve

I still remember when I first started playing Super Monday Night Combat. There was only one tutorial video and then you were thrown into games with people who may have been playing for months. Even though getting up to speed at the beginning was difficult I had a lot of

Adjusting

I now live in Seattle. This post is for Saturday, June 3, 2017. It's been 6 days since I left Boston. I haven't really thought about being gone. I've been so focused on getting setup here I haven't had the time yet. Surprisingly it is possible to get an apartment

Growing Up

This post is for Saturday, May 27, 2017. I started going to Moses Brown back in 2002 when I was entering 3rd grade. On one of my last days at my old school I started to cry during one of our all-school meetings. That was the first time I remember

Hyper Light Drifter

Originally I actually started writing this post on Saturday. Today is Monday. This post is now about my favorite game of all time, Hyper Light Drifter. There are no spoilers in this post. There will also be "holy shit I'm moving" updates at the end. This post is for Saturday,

I'm Still Leaving?

I'm still writing posts. Of course this post is late. This post is for Saturday, May 13, 2017. Throughout the week people have been asking me how I feel about moving. The only time I felt pure excitement was when I just got back from visiting Seattle. Over the last

Graduation

I'm going to try and write posts every week for the next couple of weeks. We'll see how well that goes. This post is for Saturday, May 6, 2017. I graduated from college. I haven't fully internalized it yet. I woke up today and slightly freaked out thinking that I

Use a Password Manager

Because the next couple of posts are going to be variations around graduating college, leaving Boston, moving to Seattle, and getting acclimated there, I decided to make a random post not about any of those topics. TL;DR: Use 1Password [https://1password.com/] right the fuck now. My first password

Replacing nginx with Caddy: One Year Later

TL;DR: My updated Caddyfile [https://gist.github.com/golf1052/16f6a1b5141887ee3274]. I feel like reviews of a product a few months or even a year out aren't done that often so I'm going to look at Caddy again. I've been using the new hotness known as Caddy [https://caddyserver.com/

LastBeanpot 2017

HackBeanpot 2017 finally happened last weekend. It was great, as always. This year was a little different though because I didn't make anything, unless you count plusplusbot. Also HackBeanpot 2017 started a year ago for me because I somehow wound up on the core organizing team. I didn't really mistakenly

On Leaving

The reasons for leaving seemed so clear at first. Live in a new place, experience new things. But as I get closer to actually moving I'm starting to wonder if I'm making the right decision. For the few days I was there Seattle seemed amazing, it filled me with the

One Word Titles

I don't really have much to say this year. I lied. Last year my post was a short, optimistic post. [https://blog.golf1052.com/u/] Fully based in what I was feeling at the time. Basically all my posts are. Short snippets of what I'm feeling at that moment. Almost

Trump: Week 1

Some pictures from in front of the Boston Public Library protesting the anti-immigration executive order. A little about the Statue of Liberty. "Fundraising for the [Statue of Liberty] had begun in 1882. The committee organized a large number of money-raising events. As part of one such effort, an auction of

Death

I usually listen to music that doesn't have any words. Anamanaguchi, Tycho, C418. When I do listen to music with words I almost never pay attention to them, I'm bad at finding the deeper meaning, bad at stringing together words into coherent thoughts. But sometimes I do pick up on

Change

There is also a spoken version of this available here [https://soundcloud.com/golf1052/change/s-BCa9O] or here [https://golf1052.com/media/change.mp3]. Hello from the last day of 2016! I've been doing this blog thing for three whole years now [https://blog.golf1052.com/a-nother-look-back/]. In terms of

Full Moon

Back when I was a Boy Scout I didn't tell anybody that I was a Boy Scout. I was 12 when I first joined. I remember during my entrance meeting my Scoutmaster asked me if I wanted to be a Boy Scout. I said yes. I lied. So every Thursday

The Box

I built a box. More specifically it's a LED light box that responds to music. It was fully inspired by this box from Anamanaguchi's Endless Fantasy video. I wanted to build the box at some point in 2014 but I didn't get around to it until this summer. I started

Hate

Ugh. Today is an important day. Yes, the election is today. Please go vote. Tomorrow is more important. Tomorrow is the first day we, as a people, as a country, can start to heal. It seems that people on either side hate the other side. How could they support this

Pumpkin

"I really want donuts right now", they said as both of them walked up to his car. "It's like 8 right now but whatever", he said as he opened the driver side door. They both got in and he turned the key in the ignition. "Your car better start this

What Happened

So I was pretty on the fence about writing this post, mainly because I have work in the morning but I knew I would forget everything if I just went to bed so here we go. The last few months were a pretty tumultuous time for me. I find that

Black

He lied down and breathed in deeply. Waves of sleep began to flow over him, slowly enveloping him. His eyes closed, darkness swirled around him. He began to hear rumblings, like a large storm approaching in the distance. The sound of rain started to fill his head. He felt wind

Blue

He felt that it was finally time. He wanted to tell a story. He had no idea how he was going to do that. He took a deep breath and typed out a message > Hey I made an Instagram. Come check it out I guess. https://www.instagram.com/poptartkid2825/

Fin

This post uses nomoji. An emoji filled version of this post is available here [https://blog.golf1052.com/fin]. My last day of coop was the last Friday in August. It pretty much was like any other day of work. During my stay a few people had left for various

🏁 Fin 🏁

This post extensively uses emoji. An nomoji version of this post is available here [https://blog.golf1052.com/fin-nomoji]. 🙋🏾 My last day of coop was the last Friday in August. It pretty much was like any other day of work. During my stay a few people had left for various

Play Me A Trip

Don't really have much to say this time around. It's my last week of co-op this week. I made another mix, keeping with the do things once a year trend [https://blog.golf1052.com/music/]. The mix is partially inspired by this post [https://blog.golf1052.com/driving-at-night-during-a-thunderstorm/]. I was

post-success depression

There's nothing like the feeling of achieving something you've always been working towards or experiencing something amazing. It's like a dream come true. But there's always the day after the happiest day of your life. It's not like that day will be bad, you're still riding off the joys of