Hello world! I’m Dan Hildebrand and this is a blog about me exploring my many interests and sharing a slightly refined version of my inner monologue. I took a stab at defining my intentions here: https://alces.space/about/ I’ve missed the exercise of writing to articulate and evolve ideas, so I promise that this will be evolving as I do, which means we could cover some serious ground. I’ll link to projects here when I publish them, but until then, check out some of my posts below.
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Learning While Leveling: Terraria
If Malcolm Gladwell could see my Steam account, he’d agree that out of the handful of games I’ve sunk some time into, Terraria is by far the game I’m closest to mastering. (just for the record, I’m nowhere close to my 10,000 hours, but I am over 1K including all that AFK item farming…) Terraria …
An Introduction to Learning While Leveling: Discovering Lost XP
Have you ever spent waaaay too many hours doing something only to realize that it probably wasn’t worth it? Any gamer who’s ever gamed can probably share horror stories of a time when they logged hundreds of hours to attain something that most definitely wasn’t worth it, especially once you log off and re-immerse yourself in …
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Python PSA: Pitfalls of Pivoting from requests to urllib3
Let me start this quick Python PSA with a major disclaimer: I have no idea what I’m doing or talking about and the entire reason for any issues I’ve encountered was my desire to avoid diving too deep into documentation while porting from one Python HTTP package to another, but… I’ve been using Habitica for …
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