Posts from 2025

Back in march I decided to rant because I was having a rough today. Today is the opposite of that day. I'm relaxing at the end of a long semester filled with the good, bad, and ugly. I'm enjoying the...

While I was working on Kray, I crossed 700 hours of work on Kotlin. This post will be about my thoughts about the language. For reference, I started with Kotlin all the way back in 2020 to 2021....

As of writing this post, I now have a 405 contribution streak on GitHub. What does this mean, and is it really that big of a deal? The Quest on Contribution Graphs If you've used Duolingo,...

This is the first blog post written in the converted format for NuxtPress, which is a blog software that I wrote that I can host on Cloudflare Workers and don't have to manually create new jekyll...

Took a nice 3 1/2 month hiatus. A lot has happened in my personal life, many ups and downs back and forth. CmdFX development has slowed down as I have began to focus on my Congressional App Challenge...

Kotlin is a modern programming language that has gained popularity for its concise syntax and interoperability with Java. As I've been exploring Kotlin, it's come to become my favorite programming...

Computer Science is mathematics with extra steps. Everything is math with extra steps, but it matters what the extra steps actually are. This article will detail how to properly understand and...

The Combinatory video game works as a mathematics game where you swipe tiles and combine them into eachother using mathematics operations, trying to get a specific score. This article will detail how...

Been through a few revisions since v0.1.0 of the cmdfx Game Engine. This is a short video showcasing the features in v0.1.3 of the engine, which included some new features in the Physics Engine. The...

Introduction We all love C, right? You can basically write anything that you want. But that comes at the cost of you trying to debug everything. So, I'll explain my process of writing unit tests in...

Introduction Tabroom is a website used by the Speech & Debate community to check tournament data, read ballots, look at judges, and basically serves as the primary hub of managing competitions. It...

Note: I am not associated with WakaTime, nor did I get paid anything to write this. I just think it's a great tool that I wanted to share with you. Here's my WakaTime profile for reference. I have...

Exactly one year ago, I made the decision to change my username from "GamerCoder" to "gmitch215." This was a significant change for me, and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on why I made this...

Today is an interesting day. I deal with a lot of personal stuff that I frankly won't repeat on here, but let's just say that I was told the same thing again for the 1,874th time today. What changed?...

This will be a series of posts talking about the LevelZ File Format, a file format I created for my video games. The project is an open-source project under Calculus Games. It's used in Combinatory...

This is the first build of the engine, and it's still in development. The engine is written in C and C++, and it's designed to be easy to use and flexible. It's still a work in progress, but I'm...

This will be a short series on how I made the Combinatory video game using the KorGE game engine. I will be going over the basics of the game engine, how I set up the project, and how I implemented...

How do you properly name a programming project? This is one of the most pressing issues for developers in 2025. This is arguably more important than AI replacing everything or your favorite language...

Tabroom.com is the official(?) platform for Speech and Debate data. It's used to record all of the ballots and data for tournaments in the activity. During my high school career, I developed...

A few days ago, I released version 0.1.0 of my CmdFX video game engine. I previously wrote about how it aims to operate as a video game engine inside your terminal. The initial release didn't really...

I've recently started development on cmdfx, which is a lightweight, minimal game engine for your terminal. I got the idea while working on kasciffy, an asciffier for Kotlin Multiplatform. I thought...

Today I'm going to be writing about two programming languages that seem to always have people fighting over which is better: C and C++. Introduction In case you aren't familiar, everything is...

Starting 2025 with a new project, gitle. It's a gradle plugin that downloads and builds Maven/Gradle dependencies that aren't published to a repository, like Maven Central, GitHub Packages, or any...