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Drygast

Drygast

Dry and bitter old fart. Some kind of a senior software developer.

I've been in this industry for a number of years now - since 1998, in fact. Starting off in the cowboy era of IT business has been a wild ride, and I have many things to say about this time. Some good and some bad. I have my own company and am currently trying to figure out exactly what I'm going to make of it. Currently, I'm really into learning basic game development since I've been primarily focused on backend development during my work, but it's never too late, right?

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Latest posts

November 21, 2025 - Drygast

How to install MySQL Workbench on Linux Mint 22

After stumbling through this process once before, I decided to write up a simple guide for installing MySQL Workbench on Linux Mint 22.2. If nothing else, future me will thank me.

June 29, 2025 - Drygast

Old man tries to make a game

Is game-dev for me? I don't know, but I'm gonna find out.

April 10, 2025 - Drygast

Swapping drives in a Synology DS918+

From 3x3TB to 4x4TB in a RAID5.

April 06, 2025 - Drygast

I miss my dogs...

A rant about the goodest of boys.

February 06, 2025 - Drygast

How to check and disable Recall in Windows 11

Recall was added in update 24H2, here is how you check and make sure that it is disabled.

October 14, 2024 - Drygast

Changing Varmilo VPT109 Backlight

How to change the backlight on the Varmilo VPT109 keyboard.

May 09, 2024 - Drygast

Basic Linux Commands

Essential Linux commands: A WSL user's reminder.

May 07, 2024 - Drygast

Useful MySQL commands

A couple of MySQL commands/queries that might be useful.

April 29, 2024 - Drygast

Add ireland tax info in adsense as a Swedish company

How I added my tax info - a short walkthrough

April 22, 2024 - Drygast

Database Normalization

Embark on Your Database Normalization Journey

April 08, 2024 - Drygast

How to install apache on windows

It could be quite useful

March 14, 2024 - Drygast

AdSense IAB TC string issue

How to "fix" error 7.8

March 07, 2024 - Drygast

Best Practices for Database Naming Conventions

A personally weighted list of naming conventions for new SQL databases

March 03, 2024 - Drygast

Random functions in MS SQL

Exploring random functions and their uses in MS SQL

March 01, 2024 - Drygast

Bulk upsert data to MSSQL

Using MERGE in SP to UPSERT data to MSSQL with C#

February 21, 2024 - Drygast

Class Inheritance in GDScript

A quick look at inheritance and how to use it in GDScript

February 05, 2024 - Drygast

I tried YouTube shorts automation with AI

A while ago I tried to automate YouTube shorts videos - this is what happened

February 02, 2024 - Drygast

Basic suika clone in Godot

I made a basic suika clone using Godot game engine.