cyanbane.com

cyanbane.com

Eric Thompson

Hi, I’m Eric or @cyanbane, I have been writing on the internet since before the “internet” When I was 12, I started my first BBS and started interacting with others on what would eventually become the web today. Door games, hacking and phreaking texts, warez, gamez, and ASCII Art were fantastic and hooked me from a young age. I eventually took up Visual Basic 6 to create a Dungeons & Dragons character generator, and here I am 30 years later, still loving coding. I am a coder by trade and have had this blog for over two decades. It has evolved over time and interests, and I have found myself multiple times just canning all of it and going back and starting it fresh. The site you are viewing now is probably about my 30th iteration, and it is slowly coming up on it's 25th anniversary. Welcome to it.

Latest Posts

Fallout Season 2

cyanbane.com · 2d

We finished Season 2 for Fallout last week. SPOILERS ahead, don’t read if you care.—-------------------------------------------------------------Season 2 was pretty solid. I...

The Frontier

cyanbane.com · 1w

A 16-year-old with no credentials and no capital could just do things. The world of bits offered the freedom to build without being drowned in arbitrary constraints, in a way...

Helium, it's not just for balloons

cyanbane.com · 1w

A few weeks ago when the war began me and a bunch of friends started to discuss Helium and the need for it in Medical MRI imaging. The Strait of Hormuz was the only pass through...

Idle Games Continued: Crusader's Quest

cyanbane.com · 2w

I am still playing a ton of Diablo IV in my free time. We are currently in a shortened season ( only 12 weeks ) and the new season starts in about 3 weeks with the new Expansion...

Legends of Dragaea

cyanbane.com · 1mo

So a few weeks ago I started running Desktop Heroes on a secondary PC I had (a three-generation-old gaming PC) because I snagged it for a pittance and wanted to see what all the...

Shifting Sands and Dev Windows

cyanbane.com · 2mo

Over the past couple of months, my development desktop has gradually changed into its new form. This is the interweaving of AI into almost all of my workflows. I have a...

Soup of Numbers and Operations

cyanbane.com · 2mo

"Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.""For example, AI models are trained on vast amounts...

The Whale

cyanbane.com · 3mo

Great read:What has Docker become?Docker Inc’s journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here’s what their strategic...

Katabasis

cyanbane.com · 3mo

Tuesday nights are always busy at our house. I took my son to his volleyball practice and then to a local card shop where he plays the One Piece Trading Card Game every week....

Desktop Heroes

cyanbane.com · 3mo

I've had Desktop Heroes running on a side monitor for the past week or so. It's a fun little Cookie Clicker–style game that I enjoy watching from time to time. It needs minimal...

Getting Into Lorcana

cyanbane.com · 3mo

We play some type of card game each night at our house, usually during dinner. For Christmas, I was given Unstable Game's Twisted Cryptids which we are really getting into and...

Diablo IV - Season 11 - Dungeon Tier List

cyanbane.com · 4mo

I have been playing a lot of Season 11 ( THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE, THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE! ) Diablo IV over the last week or so and was looking for a good tier list of all...

Finishing Up Maktala

cyanbane.com · 4mo

Loved this little game. A neat cross between a loot shooter and an advancement-path chooser. The premise is that you are trying to clear slimes from a 2D plane in the quickest...

Ball x Pit

cyanbane.com · 5mo

Ball x Pit is the first game I have tried ( and succeeded! ) to get all the achievements for in about a decade. I have let the game marinate for a good while since I "finished"...

Hooters II

cyanbane.com · 6mo

In the early ‘80s, longtime friends and Clearwater businessmen—DiGiannantonio, a liquor salesman, Droste, a real estate executive, Johnson, a brick mason by trade, as well as...
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