Micah's Secret Blog

With just a basic working knowledge of writing Bash scripts and understanding Unix tools and their design philosophy, you can easily create scripts to automate your workflow and improve your productivity. In this post, we'll get our feet wet in writing Bash scripts and combine them with some powerful Unix tools to create a powerful and versatile toolset. We'll also explore how you can use Hammerspoon, a macOS automation tool, to take your automation to the next level.

As part of my design course requirements at Rice University, I will be creating a game in a group of 4 using the Godot engine over the upcoming semester. This blog post will serve as a progress log for the game's development and hopefully provide some good insights into the game development process from someone who has never made a game before.

Over the summer, after finally getting around to learning Vim motions (see blog post #9), I quickly fell down the Neovim rabbithole and have been procrastinating work by tinkering away at my configurations ever since! This post will be sharing setup that I have currently landed at to turn my Neovim editor into a supercharged workhorse.

I love databases, but they are still largely a magical black box to me, so in this post, I'm going to explore how SQLite's query optimizer works. We'll delve together into the process of how SQL queries are parsed, optimized, and executed, with a particular focus on the optimization phase. By the end of this post, you'll have a better understanding of how SQLite's query optimizer works and how it can help you write more efficient queries.

The vimtutor program is the essential starting point for anyone looking to learn the basics of using Vim. In as little as a half hour, you can learn 90% of what you'll ever need for vim, however, there are many useful motions and commands that are left out of the program. This article details the simple software package I wrote to address this limitation, vimtutor-sequel.