Alec Troemel

Hi!

my name is Alec Troemel, and you found my website. Here’s some things about me.

Im a Christian, I currently attend Eastview Christian Church.
I Currently work at this cool place called Mirus Research.
Yes I do agree that Emacs is the best editor.
In my freetime I enjoy...
- Making tiny games in Fennel and TIC-80, which you can play on my itch.io page.
- Making music, which you can take a listen to at soundcloud or simply by scrolling down.

here's some longer stuff that resembles blog posts.

(May 05, 2023) Ludum Dare 53 Postmortem :coding :games
(Mar 25, 2023) Rhythm - A devotion for in between church services :faith
(Feb 22, 2023) Legend of Outer: Majoras Wilds :games
(Jan 06, 2023) 2022 in review while looking ahead to 2023? :life
(Nov 08, 2022) Zelda Style Dungeons and the Stories They Tell :games
(Oct 31, 2022) Ludum Dare 51 Postmortem :coding :games
(Jun 01, 2022) GMTK 2022 Postmorten :games :coding
(Feb 12, 2022) Why I Dont Support Crypto :coding
(Jan 01, 2022) Goals for 2022 :life
(Dec 28, 2021) Wide Linear Level Design in Solar Ash :games
(Nov 26, 2021) Eastward Analysis :games
(Apr 10, 2020) Haproxy, Cloudfront, and S3 :coding
(Mar 01, 2020) Wondersong Analysis :games
(Mar 22, 2020) Broken Age Analysis :games
(Oct 01, 2019) Grep Tips :coding
(Sep 01, 2019) Burrito Meal Prep :life
(Aug 01, 2019) An Idea about School :life
(Aug 01, 2019) Joycon Shell Replacement :life :games
(Aug 01, 2019) Ludum Dare 44 :games :coding
(Apr 14, 2019) Lets make a board game :games
(Mar 12, 2019) Morse Code Cheat Sheet :life
(Feb 27, 2019) Cloud DNS Python SPF :coding
(Dec 04, 2018) Ludum Dare 43 :games :coding

Recent short thoughts.

(2023-4-01) Wrong Assumptions

I've learned that when given the oppritunity to make a wrong assumption, I will 99% of the time.. Though I honestly have never had the thought to apply that idea to coding and abstractions!

"... the dynamic at play on Facebook, where the company throws family members, lifelong friends, and chance acquaintances — strong ties and weak ties, to use the sociological terminology — into your feed so that, over time, you stop being able to distinguish them, stop being able to tell who your real friends are or what a real friend even is."

source

(2023-3-19) Jelly Physics

the creator of Jelly Car made a video explaining its physics system. Some edge cases you dont really need to worry about, but one you do is maintaining a rigid body's shape after deformation! (Consider simulating gas within the shape like a balloon)

(2023-3-17) Humility

Saint Augustine once said

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

God help me to be humble.

(2023-03-15) Shorts

This is a a place for short stuff, lets see if I use it...

Here's some people that resemble friends

Games played this year.

Title	Maker	Status
Splatoon 3 Single Player	Nintendo	:complete
Outer Wilds: Echo of the Eye	Mobius Games	:complete
Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask	Nintendo	:complete
Wavetale	Thunderful	:complete
Metroid Prime: Remastered	Retro Studios	:complete
the Racheteer (Playdate Season 1)	Shaun Inman, Matthew Grimm, Charlie Davis	:in-progress
Zniw Adventure	Azure Mountain	:in-progress
Portal	Valve	:complete
Portal 2	Valve	:complete
Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom	Nintendo	:complete

Books read this year.

Title	Author	Status
Fairy Tale	Stephen King	:complete
Water from a Deep Well	Gerald L. Sittser	:in-progress
The Hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle	:complete
Around the World in Eighty Days	Jules Verne	:complete
The Mote in God's Eye	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle	:in-progress