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Category: technology

Modern Data Ownership Challenges

Modern software vendors collect a lot of data. On the surface it is to improve their product, determine which features are being used, detect problems before they get too big, and many other reasons. Under the surface, this data can be used for marketing, for sale to other companies (and government agencies), and like the […]

kennebel
Published on 2025-12-12

Broadside #2, Working menus

(the gif animation is a little choppy, but the actual execution of the effect is very smooth) Table of Contents Overview This round was focused on reorganizing the scenes in order to support a smoother transition from the Main menu area to the Battle view and back again. Scenes and Transitions While browsing various Godot […]

kennebel
Last modified on 2024-12-15

Broadside, Update #1 – Menus and Scenes (and files)

Table of Contents Overview This update session, I worked on building a rudimentary user interface, and looked at how to switch between scenes. I also learned about the option to have Godot ignore a folder, so you can put files in the project, that won’t be a part of the development process. UI’s The Godot […]

kennebel
Published on 2024-12-11

Broadside, Update #0 – Trying out Godot

Godot Engine is similar to Unity and Unreal Engine, but is completely open source. https://godotengine.org Project Overview https://github.com/kennebel/Broadside After a more than a decade of using Unity personally and professionally, I have decided to try out Godot. I played with Godot and GDScript a little, but I felt like i was fighting the alternate syntax […]

kennebel
Published on 2024-12-08

WordPress error “The response is not a valid JSON response”

So, while installing WordPress on my server, ran across an error when trying to save page edits: The response is not a valid JSON response All of the articles and help docs I could find online were unable to help. The reason is because the articles all presumed that you are running Apache for the […]

kennebel
Published on 2024-11-13