This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. For a lot of us 80’s kids, King’s Quest is where it all began. The colours were vibrant, the...

This review is part of the “Let’s Adventure!” series. See all reviewed games sorted by rating here. Mystery House is an adventure game released by On-Line Systems in 1980. It was designed, wri...

2021-06-01: Note that you can actually generate the games list directly from the scummvm binary by running scummvm --list-all-games. Oops … A long time ago I reached out to the ScummVM leaders...

MongoDB has always output log entries as plaintext. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, mongod / mongos instances now output all log messages in structured JSON format. This includes log output sent to the...

With PR#2982 - ENGINES: Sanitarium engine being recently merged into ScummVM I wanted to take some time to chronicle the original development efforts which began in 2009. At the time I was looking...

During a recent diagnostic analysis exercise I needed to identify if there was additional “work” being done based on a single option being changed. As Ruby offers numerous productivity tools for de...

Ever since I started this blog in 2012, I’ve been using Octopress to generate the pages and push to generated content to GitHub Pages for hosting. Octopress is a set of scripts and helpers built on...

The N + 1 queries problem is a common issue Rails applications face whereby iterating an array of models and accessing an association results in a sub-optimal pattern of recurring queries. To addr...

A MongoDB replica set is a group of mongod processes that maintain the same data set. The PRIMARY node receives all write operations and The SECONDARY nodes replicate the PRIMARY’s oplog and apply ...

<SHAMELESS_PLUG> My previous article about initial sync progress monitoring got some attention, and as I’m a Technical Services Engineer at MongoDB, I got to provide direct feedback during t...