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Click-to-Edit in PyQt6

Qt is a pretty powerful toolkit for building desktop apps. I’m not a desktop app builder, generally, so it seemed reasonably to start by using something that includes a great deal of functionality packed in, and has a long history of commentary and examples1. Related, you can use …

Representing Retro Grid Maps

Modern computer RPGs have complicated, detailed, three-dimensional maps, but it was not always thus. Back in the 80s, as they were first crawling from table to monitor, the capabilities of the PCs of the era were better suited to the more spare graph paper maps of old AD&D modules …

Why Am I Learning Rust?

Professionally speaking, I’m no longer a software developer, and haven’t been for a few years1. Indeed, my time on the operations side of the aisle has done nothing but increase my preference towards proven, off-the-shelf solutions. Not Invented Here? Great, sign me up!

Yet, I insist on …