Something Else - A mod for OpenMW

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...

March 30, 2023

Making and Testing My First nixpkgs Change

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....

March 13, 2023

My First Nix Derivation: OpenStreetMap Overpass Server

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....

October 23, 2022