Dalius's blog
Dalius Dobravolskas's blog about IT and other stuff.
Saturday, October 31, 2026
The most beginner friendly tools to make a card game
Here is how I came with idea for this article. Users want comparison with other tools to get the feeling what Card-a-mon offers. Nowadays with AI development / vibe coding number of tools available is surprisingly high (even for me) and quality of them is not that bad actually too. I have put Card-a-mon's development to the side for some time and what I found when I have returned after some time amazed me.
Read moreFriday, October 30, 2026
I was told "Ew no." I should have listened
I added AI art to Card-a-mon, was told it was a bad idea, and added more. Then I tried to make a real game with it, read what designers actually think, and removed it all.
Read moreSaturday, September 5, 2026
Running mox mail server alongside Kamal
A recipe for self-hosting the mox mail server on a box where kamal-proxy already owns ports 80 and 443, including the certificate trick that makes it work and the traps that cost me an evening.
Read moreTuesday, June 9, 2026
Taskey: task management for agents
I have tried to find simple task management tool for agentic coding and none was simple enough. I have checked about 10 different ones and they are either too complicated, doing too much or not suitable for agentic coding. Beads most probably matched the most what I need, but I found it too aggressive and I do not like that it commits content to git repository.
Read moreTuesday, April 14, 2026
Learning golang using AI
I wanted to learn golang, but decided to give a spin and learn it using AI. The best way to learn IMHO is to do actually something and the best is to solve your own problem.
Read moreOlder posts
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- Typescript and Neovim LSP 20242024-06-05
- Writing Javascript libraries without deps2024-05-16
- Frontend testing: end-to-end testing2024-03-21
- Frontend testing: interaction tests2024-03-14
- Frontend testing: visual testing2024-03-07
- Frontend testing: hooks2024-03-01
- Frontend testing: unit testing2024-02-22
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- starship.rs subtle slowness and how I fixed it2024-01-24
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- Keyboard with joysticks (part 7): joycon joystick2024-01-01
- Keyboard with joysticks (part 6): joycon failure + psp 2000 review after week2023-11-17
- Keyboard with joysticks (part 5): QMK part2023-11-07
- Keyboard with joysticks (part 4): PSP 2000 joystick added2023-11-02
- Keyboard with joysticks (part 3)2023-10-29
- Keyboard with joysticks (part 2)2023-10-21
- Keyboard with joysticks2023-10-13
- Joystick algorithms for QMK2023-09-01
- Drawer of Ideas: Visit planner tool2023-01-16
- Drawer of Ideas: Gmail email marketing tool2023-01-16
- Drawer of Ideas: todo app2023-01-15
- Drawer of Ideas: Morse keyboard2023-01-15
- Drawer of Ideas: Postcard-sized photobooks2023-01-14
- Morsilka: morse code keyboard2022-12-27
- Thinkpad x230 Ubuntu suspend problem (rant)2022-08-02
- Typescript and Neovim LSP2022-08-02
- Callum style layout and layers2021-09-10
- Typescript and ALE2020-11-15
- NeoVim native LSP support (attempt No.1)2020-10-23
- Running tests in Vim2020-10-14
- Ale + Deoplete + LanguageClient vs CoC2020-10-13
- fnm on cd2020-10-07
- direnv and .nvmrc2020-05-05
- Goodbye Nvim-Typescript2020-01-06
- Vim and Svelte2019-07-30
- Card-a-mon tutorial No. 4: PDF generation options2019-06-23
- Card-a-mon tutorial No. 3: Import and Export2019-06-23
- Card-a-mon tutorial No. 2: uploading your own images2019-06-22
- Card-a-mon tutorial No. 1: creating first game prototype2019-05-24
- Card-a-mon: Card Games Design Tool2019-03-11
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- Vim Plugins2018-09-05
- Code Of The Day2018-05-31
- No SecurityTokenValidator available for token2018-05-31
- Thinking About Games #12018-05-29
- Duke's Dream 2018-05-26 Update2018-05-26
- Duke's Dream 2018-05-12 Update2018-05-12
- Duke's Dream first run results2018-05-07