Getting threejs up and stumbling

Most of the time I tend to stumble in a side-project. I stumbled into vue, stumbled into nuxt and at this moment, I decided to check out a bit of threejs. Initially, I thought this was a case of just using npm i three and start developing, but boy, whas I wrong. ...

September 14, 2021 · 4 min · 647 words · Jens Penny

Battlestations

If the first weeks are any indication, you’ll spend a significant amount of time here. And since our setup is working pretty well, I’d decided to share it here. ...

August 26, 2021 · 3 min · 566 words · Jens Penny

G-day

Well, the title of this blog-series is not pure fiction anymore. I have a beautiful baby daughter. ...

August 14, 2021 · 1 min · 196 words · Jens Penny

Breech

Me and my partner are expecting our first baby soon. Until now, we passed a couple of very important goalposts. ...

July 22, 2021 · 2 min · 264 words · Jens Penny

Moving data from XML to sqlite

I’ve done a small project to parse a big xml file, and save the structured objects into a sqlite database for easier migration. The idea is that I absolutely detest xml exports, and that reasoning about data is still easier in their database-formats. Especially if you want others to use the same data. The export to sqlite is because its a good, compact format, and because it migrates pretty well to other databases like postgres. ...

6 min · 1229 words · Jens Penny