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About

Welcome to my personal website. I am based out of Canmmore, Alberta. My interests are a mix of technical (GIS, Linux for personal computing, Cloud) and non-technical (Wilderness trips, XC Skiing, Biking, Geography, History and Time Spent with Family & Friends). I will be using this as a platform to share projects and thoughts as I see fit. My hope is that this website will harken back to earlier days of the internet when interesting, light weight, self-hosted, self-coded personal websites were the norm.

Recent Articles

Projects

Sky Island Muleteer

I built this Cormac Mccarthy's Blood Meridian inspired roguelike old-western game.

The game was also inspired by back country hiking trips I have taken in the beautiful Sky Islands region of southern Arizona in the Sonoran Desert, which is a biologically rich and spiritually enchanted biome.

The graphics are sparse and just represented by ASCII characters, but like a book or novel this allows for the users imagination to create the world of the game.

In the game you are a muleteer which can pick up freight contracts in towns and then make treks across deserts and mountains fighting off wild animals and hostile individuals while protecting your mules and yourself.

It will take time to figure out the map and how to navigate, and how to keep you and your mules alive in the face of adversity. Over time you will expand your mule train and capabilities.

The game aims to be regionally accurate in its depiction of terrain and vegetation, amongst the mystical and brooding atmosphere inspired by the book Blood Meridian.

Build and host an Open Source web GIS

This is a project at the intersection of two of my current interests - Linux hosting in the Azure cloud, and open source GIS technology.

I built this because I wanted to know how to build out a full stack of open source GIS software to make a production capable system

It covers installing the back end database (Postgres with PostGIS exension), Geoserver to host your map layers, and a web front end using Open Layers.

Contact

GitHub: devinbartley