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How I Made My Todo List Voting Feature

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:25:09 -0500

A look at how I implemented a voting mechanism for my todo list items, allowing users to vote on which features they want to see implemented next.

Steam Games Map

Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:14:41 -0500

An interactive 2D map of games on the Steam Store using embeddings from Qwen3

A Kopia Maintenance Warning

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:23:21 -0400

A quick warning if you’re using Kopia to manage backups for multiple machines with a single repository.

Implementing Custom Hand Gestures on Apple Vision

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:16:30 -0500

A guide on implementing custom hand gestures for Apple Vision. We’ll be using these gestures to control a Thruster toy in the Spatial Physics Playground app, by adjusting its strength and toggling it on and off without the user needing to use UI buttons.

Steam Embedding Search

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:37:37 -0500

A web application for searching Steam games using embeddings generated from game descriptions and reviews.

Steam Game Search Overview

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:44 -0500

A brief implementation overview of the entire project and how it was put together, including definitions and background information needed to understand how it works.

Part 1: Obtaining Data

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:43 -0500

Covering how to query the Steam API to get game data, and how to store it in a database from Python. It also covers some issues that arose along the way.

Part 2: Creating the Embeddings

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:42 -0500

This post covers how I used Instructor to create embeddings for my database. Details involved include how I implemented chunking, and how I stored embeddings in sqlite3.

Part 3: Querying the Embeddings

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:41 -0500

Covering the math behind embedding comparisons, how to create an index for the embeddings, and providing some examples of the results from my testing database.

Part 4: Create an API

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:40 -0500

The first step in sharing the project with others. In this post, we’ll create a simple API that can be used to query the embeddings we’ve created.

Part 5: Create a Webapp

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 10:33:39 -0500

How to write a React app when you don’t know React, using Copilot to write most of the code for you.

My Experience Using Godot

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:00:13 -0400

The title screen for my game prototype, Statue Concept.

Recently, I published my game, Statue Concept, on Itch.io and wanted to share my experience using the Godot game engine with C#. In this article, I will discuss some of the thoughts and issues I encountered while working with Godot, along with the workarounds I found. Hopefully, this will be helpful for others who are considering using Godot for their game development projects.

Statue (Game Concept)

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:06:20 -0400

A horror video game concept made in the Godot engine. Try to navigate rooms and solve puzzles while being pursued by a statue that can only move when you aren’t looking at it.

Title Screen

To send me a comment about this project, send an e-mail to: statue@danieltperry.me

Info

Status: Released (with continued development)
Screenshots: On Itch.io or available below
Download: Itch.io

Technologies & Languages: Godot, C#

Blog Post: Tutorial: Weeping Angel Effect in Godot Engine
Blog Post: Tutorial: 3D Navigation in Godot
Blog Post: My Experience Using Godot

Why?

From the Weeping Angel Effect in Godot Engine blog post:

3D Navigation in Godot

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 14:57:48 -0400

Godot Version: 4.1.1 .NET
Difficulty: Intermediate
GitHub Repository: Completed tutorial here

Related Project: Statue (Concept)
Previous Godot Tutorial: Weeping Angel Effect in Godot Engine

Introduction

Godot has some pretty good built-in tools for pathfinding and navigation, but when getting set up I found that the Godot docs don’t have a complete end-to-end example of getting everything setup. There’s lots of separate tutorials that cover different parts of the process, and if you can follow them all you can get it working, but I wanted to put together a single tutorial that covers everything from start to finish.

Repo Search

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 14:58:13 -0400

Repo Search is a tool for searching for code by what it does using natural language queries, based on OpenAI’s embeddings. Use it to help figure out what file you need to be working on!

It happens to me pretty often when working with medium to large repositories that I have no clue what file I need to be looking at to make a particular change I’m trying to create. Repo Search is a tool I made to help me figure that out quicker.

Weeping Angel Effect in Godot Engine

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:12:46 -0400

Godot Version: 4.0.3 .NET
Difficulty: Easy - Intermediate
GitHub Repository: Completed tutorial here

Related Project: Statue (Concept)

Introduction

I’ve recently been working on implementing some game concepts in the Godot game engine. One of the things I normally do when messing around with a game engine is try to recreate one aspect of a game I helped make in college, Stonewick Manor.

Something Else - A mod for OpenMW

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:46:29 -0400

Something Else is a source-level mod that adds machine-generated text to OpenMW, an open-source reimplementation of the game engine from The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

The name comes from a new button added to the dialogue window that allows you to enter a custom line of dialogue to speak to an NPC.

The button

To send me a comment about this project, send an e-mail to: somethingelse@danieltperry.me

Info

Screenshot of generated dialogue
(using OpenAI’s GPT Chat Completion API)

Making and Testing My First nixpkgs Change

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:59:00 -0400

I have a little experience with Nix, but not a whole lot. Recently a post popped up on Hacker News about Zero to Nix, which I decided to run through on my MacBook.

After fixing a minor Mac-specific bug (specific to the Zero to Nix installer), I had a Nix installation ready to go! All I needed was something to do with it.

I eventually managed to make a PR to nixpkgs (basically Nix’s package manager) for something I personally would find useful, so I thought I would stop and write about something small I struggled with along the way, being new to Nix.

Borg Explorer

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:07:55 -0500

Borg Explorer is a cross-platform application for Linux and Mac that allows you to browse through your Borg repositories without needing to mount them. It is intended to be a simple alternative to the borg mount subcommand for cases where FUSE mounts are not available.

To send me a comment about this project, send an e-mail to: borg-explorer@danieltperry.me

Info

Icon

Screenshot

Status: Semi-Active Development (Updates when and if I need them 😊)
Source/Download: https://github.com/Netruk44/borg-repository-explorer
Technologies & Languages: Electron, HTML, Javascript, CSS

Why

I began using Borg this year (2022) to manage my machine archives. Currently, my ‘main’ machine is my M1 MacBook Pro. MacOS doesn’t natively support FUSE mounts, which is how one usually browses Borg archives after creation (through use of borg mount). Therefore, I was in need of a GUI for Borg that didn’t rely on the mount subcommand.

My First Nix Derivation: OpenStreetMap Overpass Server

Sun, 23 Oct 2022 11:08:52 -0400

I stumbled upon Nix recently and I thought it was a very interesting project. If you’ve managed to find this post, then I imagine you already have an idea of what Nix is. But if not, they’ve provided a handy page describing exactly what makes it so convenient for developers.

One of the things you find out very quickly when you start learning Nix is that a lot of information teaching Nix is in the form of blog posts from random people sharing what they’re doing to learn Nix. All of the blog posts seem to be called “Learning Nix” or “Teaching Myself Nix”, and so on. I figured I might as well add to the noise here with my own story on learning Nix 😊.

Walking App (Application Concept)

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 21:40:06 -0400

A Godot-based application for tracking where you’ve been in the world, making use of OpenStreetMap data. This is a prototype for a larger idea that may be pursued in the future.

Concept

An application intended to help you thoroughly explore an area of the world. Pick an area of the world map with roads or paths that you’d like to explore every part of. Then, import GPX files tracking previous excursions through that area, and try to ‘fill out’ the entire map by visiting every point.

Old Website

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The old personal website.

Don’t look at it, it’s horrible.

Link: https://old.danieltperry.me

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DanielTPerry.me

How I Made My Todo List Voting Feature

Steam Games Map

A Kopia Maintenance Warning

Implementing Custom Hand Gestures on Apple Vision

Steam Embedding Search

Steam Game Search Overview

Part 1: Obtaining Data

Part 2: Creating the Embeddings

Part 3: Querying the Embeddings

Part 4: Create an API

Part 5: Create a Webapp

My Experience Using Godot

Statue (Game Concept)

Info

Related Posts and Projects

Why?

3D Navigation in Godot

Introduction

Repo Search

Weeping Angel Effect in Godot Engine

Introduction

Something Else - A mod for OpenMW

Info

Making and Testing My First nixpkgs Change

Borg Explorer

Info

Why

My First Nix Derivation: OpenStreetMap Overpass Server

Walking App (Application Concept)

Concept

Old Website

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy