AleWrites
Articles about books and game development
Playing Patton Strikes Back
July 29, 2026
I took some time yesterday to play an old DOS game: Patton Strikes Back. What an interesting rewind! For those that aren't familiar, it's an old strategy game about the Battle of Bulge. It's real-time with a pause button that lets you issue order. It also pauses the game naturally when you clikc on…
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New Data Engineering Project
July 23, 2026
I'm thinking of using the steam api to build a data engineering project for my portfolio. It would require me to use dbt, airflow, and PostgreSQL to find insights into what people are buying, how they're reviewing and what they're wishlisting. I thought it might combine my love of game development w…
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Creating a Cat-ching sun demo
July 21, 2026
I've been using Claude code to teach me how to rebuild the pygame about cats in Godot. It's been really useful to slow down and explore architecture decisions and best practices. It took some getting used, and I had to, at least in the beginning, nudge the AI to check current documentation instead o…
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