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6 days ago

Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review

The newest game in the Lifeline series is already here, and it’s incredible. Here’s my review! — The first time I played a Lifeline game was in 2015. I had just started working as a QA Engineer in a small startup company that built video games for clients. The funny thing was that everybody loved it. This little game was on every one of my friends’ lips…

Mobile

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Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review
Lifeline: Beside You In Time Mobile Game Review

Apr 8

Finding a Home in ScaleHeart

Short story #1 in The Dragon Imperium. — The first thing Emerson Brooke noticed when he got off the train with his bag was a giant black tower in the distance. The second thing he noticed was the hurry everyone seemed to be in this place: Scaleheart, the capital of the Dragon Imperium. “Excuse me?” Emerson called out…

Fiction

8 min read

Finding a Home in ScaleHeart
Finding a Home in ScaleHeart

Mar 22

New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip

Don’t develop expectations — develop connections. — Like any other business out there, Medium is trying to make a profit. And sometimes that means making decisions that we the people don’t see the logic behind — but there’s always a logic. Many spreadsheets might back it up, or a board of directors vote might back it up…

Medium

2 min read

New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip
New to Writing on Medium? Here’s Your Most Important Mindset Tip

Published in Oren Codes

·Mar 13

How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?

In this guide, I’ll show you how to install Hyvor Talk on your Ghost Blog, but you can replace that with any comment plugin you like. — Until Ghost implements native comments like WordPress that ship out of the box, you’ll need to add them manually. Some themes arrive with the code for a specific comments plugin already included, and you need to add your API Key or whatever means to make it unique to your site.

Software Engineering

3 min read

How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?
How to Add a Comments Plugin to Your Ghost Blog?

Published in Oren Codes

·Mar 11

How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)

This article shows you how to use a public fork from Casper without exposing your private information to deploy your version of Casper to your blog with a comments plugin. — Before I discovered GitHub Actions, I created many zip files on my computer, including my comment plugins and such. Now that I’m using GitHub actions, I have forked Casper — Ghost’s default theme and made the changes there, too.

Software Development

4 min read

How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)
How to Deploy a Theme From GitHub to Your Ghost Blog (With Secrets)

Published in Oren Codes

·Mar 3

It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club

Welcome to Oren Codes — my blog about programming and all things software engineering. — This month, I’m marking 4.5 years of actively developing software. By mid-2018, I managed to complete an actual Computer Science degree, and start developing backends and microservices in Python. That’s a lot of fun! My problem was that something in my mind always wanted to make a complete separation between…

Programming

3 min read

It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club
It’s Time to Acknowledge My Membership in The Cool Kids Club

Mar 2

How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them

This guide does not encourage you to delete your tweets! — So, let’s say you published a post and didn’t correctly set up your featured image for Twitter. But you only discover it after you’ve published the post and instead of seeing your beautiful picture, you see a dull preview with only your title and subtitle. How do you fix this…

Writing

2 min read

How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them
How to Fix Your Post Previews on Twitter After You’ve Published Them

Published in MidweekGeek

·Mar 2

Brandon Sanderson Dropped The Ultimate Bomb on YouTube

Let’s talk about that video that Sanderson dropped on his youtube channel and what it all means for us. — So, Brandon Sanderson just released a new video on YouTube and dropped the ultimate bomb. Here it is: So, what do you think about it? So, now that are past the danger zone of ruining the surprise, I gotta admit to you something: FIVE EXTRA FREAKING…

Writing

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Brandon Sanderson Dropped The Ultimate Bomb on YouTube
Brandon Sanderson Dropped The Ultimate Bomb on YouTube

Feb 22

Brandon Sanderson Changed My Creative Journey

Day #8 of the Annual Writing Challenge. — In 2019, Brandon Sanderson visited Israel. By then, I was wholly obsessed with his book series — Stormlight Archive — and brought the three books I had for signing. I didn’t have much time while he was signing my books, but I did tell him about my friend who got…

Writing

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Brandon Sanderson Changed My Creative Journey
Brandon Sanderson Changed My Creative Journey

Published in Annual Writing Challenge

·Feb 21

My Favorite Food To Eat In Front of The Computer

Day #7 of the Annual Writing Prompt. — Yes, yes — I know eating in front of screens is unhealthy. But we all do it in some way, so let’s get past that and talk about the food itself, shall we? BTW, if you’re vegan or vegetarian, I’m sorry — you can move on from this post now. …

Food

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My Favorite Food To Eat In Front of The Computer
My Favorite Food To Eat In Front of The Computer
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