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January 01, 2019 /
Hello, world! Allow me to be the first to welcome you to my personal corner of the web, and to the year 2019! What's that? I'm not the first to welcome you to the new year? Aw, shucks. Regardless, if you've followed me around the internet for any length of time, you'll notice quite a few new things around here! What you're looking at isn't just a reskin of an existing site, it's a ground-up rebuild at a new location. Yep, that's right! Just check your address bar! I'll wait. So, what about the old site? ...

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December 06, 2018 /
ThinkBoxly was the original tech blog I started all the way back in 2012—before many of today's major web publications even existed! Initially, it was intended to be a tech news and reviews portal, but with time, it evolved into something more personal. From 2017-18, it served as a devblog for VNgen, the first product developed under the XGASOFT brand. Today, it lives on in these archives as a record of over 200 posts and 50 videos created in its lifetime, collectively generating hundreds of thousands of ...

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Update 36 - Starting From Zero

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Update 36 - Starting From Zero

August 04, 2018 /
When you've spent long enough on the journey, sometimes it's easy to forget the destination. When Yugure no Kagami was first conceived four years ago, I had no idea it would be this long before I got there. But as this devblog stands to witness, it's been a long process of laying the foundation for the purpose of saving time in the future. By building VNgen once and building it right, I've positioned myself (and other developers!) to quickly and easily create content without compromising on functionality ...

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Update 35: Building (With) Tools

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Update 35: Building (With) Tools

July 20, 2018 /
A wild devblog appears! For the past couples of months, I've taken a bit of a break from the regular devblog-style posts to cover some related topics instead. Each one was important to me, but there's another reason for the hiatus as well: behind the scenes, things were shifting gears in a big way. It's taken time, but the foundation is laid and I'm now settling into the process of building with tools, not just building tools. It's been enlightening to place myself in the shoes of a consumer using VNgen in ...

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Say Hello to XGASOFT 2.0!

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Say Hello to XGASOFT 2.0!

July 08, 2018 /
It's hard to believe almost a year has passed since XGASOFT's main site first went live, and along with it, the unveiling of Yugure no Kagami to the world. Since then, however, my development efforts have been laser-focused on completing VNgen, the engine designed to make it possible. It might've looked like nothing was happening, but the planets are aligning and it's time for that to change. And change it has: xgasoft.com has been completely revamped from backend to frontend, and is about to see a lot ...

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Update 34 - I Hate Delays

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Update 34 - I Hate Delays

May 18, 2018 /
I hate delays. I hate my delays. If something else is delayed, I can wait. There's plenty to do in the meantime. But when I'm the one that has to make the call, it's a different issue. If you know me very well, you'll know I'm terrible at giving ETAs, which is why I hesitated to give one for VNgen until the very last. And to be fair, based on what I anticipated VNgen 1.0 to be at the time, it was a reasonable estimate. But the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced VNgen was missing something ...

Update 34 - I Hate Delays