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• Card deck in C

  December 15th, 2025

  I'm working on a Raylib game in C. It's a Scoundrel clone, which is a card based dungeon crawler. Anyway, I thought I'd share a code snippet of how I am generating the deck of cards using C.

• Hosting this blog

  December 9th, 2025

  "Every developer should host their own blog". Is a statement repeated regularly across socials. I agree, they should. But I didn't untill now, so don't beat yourself up over it. Here is a quick run down of how this blog is hosted.

• Advent of code d6

  December 6th, 2025

  Phase one for day 6 only. Phase 2 beat me. Spent over an hour on it, but the left vs right justifying of numbers got me. I may come back to it, but I've spent all the time I want to on it tonight.

All Posts (76)

• 2025 - 57 posts

• 15/12 Card deck in C
• 09/12 Hosting this blog
• 06/12 Advent of code d6
• 05/12 Advent of code d5
• 04/12 Advent of code d4
• 03/12 Advent of code d3
• 02/12 Advent of code d2
• 01/12 Advent of code d1
• 01/12 A year of experiments
• 28/11 Neovim 0.12 adds vim.pack
• 27/11 Part-time sheep farmer
• 23/10 Go install script
• 21/10 Managers, managers, managers
• 10/10 mise-en-place
• 01/09 Generate SQLite table types for Typescript
• 21/08 Literal templates
• 20/08 Template strings as a view engine - Part 2
• 17/08 Template strings as a view engine
• 08/08 Object field validators in Typescript
• 05/08 Feature flags db schema
• 31/07 PostgresSQL full text search
• 27/07 startswith and endswith
• 21/07 Stack Overflow is dieing, no wonder
• 18/07 Trimming strings in c
• 15/07 Banned from lobste.rs and Hacker News
• 15/07 Making a StringBuffer in C
• 14/07 Use Codium not Code
• 10/07 Get inode type in C
• 17/06 Handle Spring form errors with JTE
• 16/06 Add a CSRF token to HTML forms with JTE
• 29/05 Spring database seeding
• 28/05 New Lib: Blueprint Factory
• 26/05 New Lib: Placeholder Image Generator
• 19/05 Request cache in Spring
• 12/05 Checking ownership in Spring
• 09/04 Slurp - A Java task runner
• 03/04 Using CPU branch prediction in Java
• 02/04 Using Docker on Linux Mint
• 02/04 Install OpenJDK on Ubuntu
• 01/04 Yoda Conditions
• 25/03 Tower of Hanoi in Java
• 06/03 AxeRunner
• 05/03 European Alternatives
• 24/02 Using a virtual screen size in Raylib
• 18/02 Using astyle to format C code
• 17/02 Creating a database dump with SQLite
• 17/02 Optimise SQLite for Laravel apps
• 16/02 Backing up an SQLite database
• 14/02 GameDev in C Part 4: A Snake Clone
• 01/02 I'm off social media
• 31/01 GameDev in C Part 3: Drawing a Slime
• 31/01 Linting is procrastination.
• 23/01 GameDev in C Part 2: Raylib
• 21/01 GameDev in C Part 1: Hello World
• 20/01 Homer's Drinking Bird
• 04/01 I joined social media
• 02/01 2025 new year's resolutions

• 2024 - 19 posts

• 31/12 Setting up PostgreSQL and Lua in Docker
• 05/12 Rust, the Cunning Wizard
• 25/11 Partial function implementation
• 18/11 Chicken Farmer, a Snake clone
• 16/11 Useful ImageData Methods
• 31/10 Using the form attribute on buttons
• 21/10 I wrote a test framework in Julia
• 17/10 Sensible SQLite defaults
• 15/10 Prevent pixel art blur on canvas
• 09/10 Add IF NOT EXISTS to your migrations
• 06/10 Using a PostgreSQL enum for state
• 01/10 Conway's Game of Life in Go
• 30/09 Writing a DB migrator in Go
• 22/09 Creating a Pong clone using Raylib and Go
• 15/09 Bit shifting to increase performance
• 07/09 Generate OG images for blog posts
• 17/08 One assertion per test please
• 12/06 Slugs with an ID fallback in Laravel
• 06/06 Seeding a Laravel DB with Irish Counties