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Adventure Outliner – Authentication and Portraits

Scopique March 1, 2021

Man, sometimes things are way more difficult than they should be. Exhibit A: “dropping in” Firebase Authentication and Firebase Storage. I freely admit that my development style is unfortunately guerilla: I’ll go searching for ways to accomplish what I need, add it…

Adventure Outliner – Registration

Scopique February 25, 2021

This is now an actual, “working” website. Working is in quotes because A) it’s not a complete website, and B) nothing really works except the link to HOME and the link to LOGIN. Everything else is basically static with the idea that…

The (Latest) Project, Revealed

Scopique February 23, 2021

Usually when I get to the point where I give into the desire to talk about a project I know for a fact that I’m dooming it to abandonment. This has been my M.O. for so long that I can set a…

Battle of the Network Databases

Scopique February 22, 2021

I have to say, the more I work with React, the more I hate working with the requirements for my day job. I can’t just switch over to React at work right now but that’s OK since I’m still not 100% on…

React – Losing at Mind Games

Scopique February 18, 2021

Yesterday I had a mental meltdown with my React project. I might have mentioned that I was reading a book on working with React and a C# back-end API, and that this book was written from the perspective of using TypeScript rather…

React – What a Drag

Scopique February 16, 2021

Welcome back to our irregularly scheduled series of posts subtitled “Scopique Swears a Blue Streak At React”. Since my initial foray into the world of React, I quickly cooled on the investigation mainly because I didn’t have a lot of use for…

AdventureCo – Squishy Pancakes

Scopique February 11, 2021

GM’s Log, Stardate 98712.94. Angstrom Base has been compromised by what appears to be a newly discovered and invasive species. Initial analysis indicates that this single-celled parasite is not native to Dran’Ankos, though its presence has devastated this research post. The Away…

Waiting for the Next Big Thing Might Not Be The Issue

Scopique February 9, 2021

I read an article at PCGamer entitled “I’m tired of waiting for the next big MMO” and it hit me hard because in reading the article I realized that the man the author was talking about used to be me. I used…

AdventureCo – These Are The Voyages of the Starship Edmund Fitzgerald

Scopique February 4, 2021

GM’s Log, Stardate 98608.9. We have been patrolling the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone for several weeks now with no incidents to speak of. We have, however, gained a shadow in the form of two Galor-class cruisers on the Cardassian side of the divide.…

Hey, HOSAS – Hands On Stick and Stick for Space Sims

Scopique January 31, 2021

I’ve been meting this out on Twitter, but I am at a point now where this subject deserves it’s own post. Last week — on my birthday, no less — my trusty Saitek/Logitech X-52Pro died. I had just reinstalled Elite Dangerous, as…