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!
My Post-Covid Camera Setup
Written May 19, 2021 - Blog
Ever since the world has ended and all of my meetings with people are online over video, I needed a web cam.
Continue reading ↦Using TiddlyWiki Behind Apache
Written May 18, 2021 - Projects
This is mostly a reference for future me, or anyone else who wants to use https://tiddlywiki.com/ behind a proxy with apache.
Continue reading ↦How That One Facebook Phishing Thing Worked
Written May 5, 2021 - Blog
A few days ago I got the same message from several friends on Facebook:
Continue reading ↦Getting Free Analysis from Games on Chess.com with Lichessify
Written Apr 27, 2021 - Projects
I have been playing like, a normal amount of chess lately. I’m not yet past the “don’t just move your queen to her death” phase yet, but I have noticeably gotten better since I rage-quit last year against my little brother.
Continue reading ↦My new-er favorite thing - RP2040 with CircuitPython
Written Apr 20, 2021 - BlogBack when I did my Model M thingy with CircuitPython, I encountered a lot of difficulties doing I/O. For one, the I/O speed was much too slow for bit-banging anything in Python. Now, you could write some C and call it from Python, but that defeats the benefit of working with Python to begin with. Additionally, hardware peripherals seemed to be destined to be behind in Python. I doubt this will ever change, but a certain recent product seems to offer a bizarre best-of-all-worlds.
Continue reading ↦Running ncurses Applications on Windows
Written Mar 18, 2021 - Projects
A few weeks ago I finally beat the game a few friends and I wrote a while ago, hag. This sparked a desire to get the game running on Windows, the operating system of choice for e🅱️ic gamers.
Continue reading ↦The Unlikely Cost of Hobby Software Development
Written Feb 15, 2021 - Blog
A game I started writing in High School just almost cost me $98, and not in any way that makes any sense.
Continue reading ↦Spidior: Because Regex Wasn't Awful Enough
Written Jan 29, 2021 - Projects
I’ve occasionally found myself wanting to refactor code in ways that current free tools don’t make easy for me. I wish I had something to make it easier.
Continue reading ↦AI Game Sandbox
Written Oct 30, 2020 - Projects
Just a place to mess around with the most current version of my AI Game.
Continue reading ↦AI Game 6 - Recovery
Written Oct 28, 2020 - Projects
I found an unfinished blog post from Halloween of 2017. Given the state of the world, it might be worth revisiting.
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