Author: Cont
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Windows 11 July 2026 Update Breaks Dell Laptop Charging — Full Fix Guide
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday update (KB5101650) is causing Dell laptops to stop detecting AC power. Battery shows ‘plugged in, not charging’ with nonsense time estimates. Here’s the…
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OpenCode Rename Chat: Keep Your AI Sessions Organized
Tired of stale, auto-generated AI session titles in OpenCode? The opencode-rename-chat plugin lets you rename sessions on the fly and add status markers like [WIP], [REVIEW], and [DONE]…
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Dynamic Split-Screen in Godot 4: GPU Shader-Based Approach
Traditional split-screen in local co-op games has always been a compromise. Two players on one screen usually means either a fixed vertical/horizontal divider — permanently sacrificing half the…
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Physics-Based Crate Carrying in Godot 4: A Spring-Damper Approach
In our ship-driving game Runners, players need to haul crates across ship decks, through doorways, around corners. Early prototypes used the standard Godot approach: press F, reparent the…
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Collision Jitter from Thin Objects: Why Your Floor is Bouncing
Understanding how thin collision shapes cause physics jitter and best practices for stable floor placement
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Deploying SongWalk: CI/CD with Drone, Docker, and Nginx Proxy Manager
Building the app is half the battle. Getting it deployed and staying deployed is the other half. For SongWalk, that meant setting up a proper CI/CD pipeline that…
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Making a Web App Feel Native on Mobile — SongWalk’s PWA Journey
When I first built SongWalk, it was a desktop-first Flask app with a retro Windows Media Player aesthetic. That was intentional — the whole idea was to evoke…
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The Problems SongWalk Had to Solve
Every project looks simple from a distance. "A little app for sharing music with friends" sounds straightforward enough. Upload some MP3s, generate a link, press play, done. But…