Hi! If you haven't guessed from the website title, you are on the blog of John "Jeffrey" Westhoff.
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Now that that's out of the way, below you'll find my random blog posts in newest-first order - enjoy!
Game Jam 3: The Preservening
Written Mar 31, 2024 - Projects
The rollercoaster of game jamming continues with our March entry.
Continue reading ↦The Best Use for AI
Written Feb 18, 2024 - Projects
If I learned anything this past year, it’s that everyone thinks these chatbots are going to replace us.
Continue reading ↦A year? of Game Jams
Written Feb 18, 2024 - Projects
My friend Emil and I entered a game jam in January, another in February, and plan on one in March. This has been a rollercoaster of the highest order.
Continue reading ↦In-Browser Terrain Rendering with Godot and Terrain3D
Written Feb 7, 2024 - ProjectsFor a while now I’ve been wanting to create a simple social networked game. Basically just a chat room where you can explore a 3D world, in browser. Recently, since I’ve been entering game jams for fun and learning the Godot Engine, I decided to actually work towards this dream. For a start, I grabbed this super helpful starter project to learn how the high level networking feature works in Godot.
Continue reading ↦How do I have so few posts about laptops
Written Feb 2, 2024 - BlogApparently it’s been a few years since I last yelled into the void about what laptop I use. Well, in that time, a lot has changed. First off, I gave my prized collection of x230 ThinkPads (and a few others) to my sisters, nieces, and nephews. Apparently they’re all broken at this point and I’m not allowed to have them back for repairs. Because of this, I got myself an x250, which was my main laptop for about two years before I gave it to my mother-in-law.
Continue reading ↦Removing Boilerplate In Teams Messages Via Email
Written Feb 1, 2024 - Blog
Microsoft Teams allows you to message a channel by sending an email to a certain address. This is great unless you are at a corporation that appends some boilerplate to all outgoing emails. Then it is frustrating and sad.
Continue reading ↦Towards More Accessible Video Games: Part 1 - Overthinking Everything
Written Sep 16, 2022 - Projects
I mentioned recently a desire to create more accessible computer games. In this blog, I briefly cover some early findings towards that goal.
Continue reading ↦July 2022 Update
Written Jul 17, 2022 - Blog
I haven’t really worked on anything I felt was worth posting here, but I really don’t want to have gone an entire half year with no blog post. So, I figured I’d do a write-up of everything I have done since I last posted, mostly with the intent of it being a reminder that I actually did stuff.
Continue reading ↦JSON Viewer
Written Mar 2, 2022 - Projects
Free json viewer built using this library I found.
Continue reading ↦AlephZeroChess 2 - Lessons Learned from WASM
Written Dec 18, 2021 - Projects
I’ve had some new-found motivation to work on my big chess game, but hit a silly problem.
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