Wings of Saint Nazaire

Wings of Saint Nazaire is a retro space combat sim in the vein of Wing Commander and X-Wing.

I haven't played this yet, but it looks great. I logged thousands of hours in Wing Commander universe and I love that look. Also, I'm wondering if it is easier on the system requirements!

New Day

I'm going to be posting more on here again. Really pumped for work today! I want today to have epic levels of progress.

Other random thing, I have a tough time determining if what I am writing is a 'Standard' post in WordPress, or just a 'Status' post. I'll just do whatever I think is best. OOh, and now I see the 'Aside' post type. So many options! Totally going to try them all out.

Highest of fives to everyone.

Jason

I've been trying for weeks to write this.

We were friends and at one time housemates, although we hadn't been close really since he moved away. I thought about him all the time, but too busy to send him a note or call, although that would occasionally happen.

He ended his life a couple weeks ago.

I am angry and sad and it is not diminishing. I just can't think about it. When I think of him I am forcing myself to think of a good memory with him; walks to monterey market, playing Magic, watching anime, him always being the scorekeeper and keeping things in gnumeric, his funny way of sitting and crossing his legs when on a couch or floor..

I've been reading a book on Stoicism the last couple months, and had been making a list of questions to ask my illustrious philosopher friend, to see what he thought. Now I can't.

The "what if's" just don't stop. I don't understand why. I do know I could have done more, and by more I mean anything at all.

Beautiful bus ride home from Forge. Unusually clear skies.

Nearly there on Nickelpinch

Lot's of progress today on Nickelpinch while the kids napped. I am about 2 hours away from it being at v1.0.0 and I am super excited to use it.

Once it's working I'll be revamping the http://www.nickelpinch.org page with up to date info. Stay tuned!

Excited to code tonight

Setting aside some time tonight to work on Nickelpinch, my open source finance app I've been working on. Hope to be in alpha by end of the night!

Yum

One of the many benefits when working at home is having an amazing partner make a tasty lunch for you.

Finally installed Wordpress app on my phone. Now I have zero excuses to not post more!

Laravel; Auth::attempt() works but user not logged in.

This was a funky problem that took me a while to figure out.

When a user was logging in, the Auth::attempt() was returning true if there were good credentials passed. However! Using Auth::check() or any other Auth method showed the user wasn't actually logged in. What the heck?

After much hunting, I found this answer on Stack Overflow.

The problem is you have used "userId" as your primary id - but you have not told Laravel.

I realized I did NOT use id as the id for the users table, I went with uid because I thought it made more sense. That's fine, but then you need to tell your Users model what the primary key is by adding this line.

protected $primaryKey = "[your-primary-key-here]";

If you were searching and having this issue, I hope it helped!

Fun fact: increasing the font size of Sublime Text 2 has greatly helped my ability to focus. Apparently trying to work w/font size of 11 isn't possible anymore with my eyes. Changed to 18 point and it is wonderful.