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The madness behind the curtain: a deep dive on SwiftyBot and SwiftyLink.

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2021 has been a weird year. It was the year where, in 2020, we believed we would get back to normal. Sadly, that has not happened yet, and we spent our summer in various ways. Some traveled. Some cooked. Others coded - and I am one of those people. Flooded with a backlog of projects that I have been itching to restart, I started working furiously on those old projects in late May to early June. Working as furiously as I have was never a shock to anyone, nor was it a wake-up-call to my skills and talents - it was simply my way of disconnecting from the complete madness that society is nowadays. Inspired by my work on StormBeatz, I later decided that it was time for a new, fresh project - one that combined three of my favourite things: music, discord bots, and the Swift programming language. I bet you can already tell that this will be an adventure - and I do not disagree. This was, quite simply, one of the hardest projects I have ever tried to finish, and the crazy thing is: I am not do...
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Modding my Oculus Go; what an adventure.

MAJOR UPDATE - November 1st, 2020: The Oculus Go was just released, and for a starting price of $299 for 128GB of storage, its a slam dunk of a deal! Please opt to get that if you’d like one, otherwise you can find an original Quest for $150-$200. The Oculus Go was recently discontinued with the new shake-up of a lineup. The original blogpost is below however, just for archival and legacy purposes. ORIGINAL POST - March 2020: I’ve had my Oculus Go for 3 months now (almost approaching 4), and I have been blown away by the features it brought. VR to the masses, huh? Who woulda thought? However, there are a few limitations that have been brought to my attention after I used my Rift side by side. In this post, i will take a deep dive and have a little fun explaining the gripes I have with this, how I modded this thing, and if it can be compared to the Oculus Quest. Oculus Go: why would people choose this? The Oculus Go is best described as a standing point between the Gear VR, which ...
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Fixing a Nexus 5X - and learning it’s impossible.

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2021 - Hello all! I have recently found my Nexus 5X I used in this blog, and I will continue to find a way to fix this bootloop. I will post a new update once I have successfully gotten it to work. ORIGINAL POST: In late 2015, Google announced the Nexus 5X and the Nexus 6P, the last Nexus-branded devices in their lineup. I switched from my iPhone 6, which I was rocking when it was announced, so I could give Android a try. It all blew me away. Android Marshmallow was quick and responsive and free of all the bugs I encountered in Lollipop, introduced “Now on Tap” (My FAVORITE feature of 6.0), and more. I used the 5X until Apple announced the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, the second glass backed iPhones equipped with the fastest Phone SoC, the A11 Bionic. I was reluctant to get rid of this phone, as I grew too close with Android, and I was getting started with learning about the internals. In the end, I sold it for $150, and put that money towards an iPhone 8 Plus, which I a...
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