<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>a creative solution | Owen Edwards</title><link>https://a-creative.website/</link><description>Recent content on a creative solution | Owen Edwards</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><managingEditor>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</managingEditor><webMaster>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</webMaster><copyright>| a creative solution | Owen Edwards</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://a-creative.website/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Blog Post 005 - Building a Portable SSD That Transfers At 40gbps!!</title><link>https://a-creative.website/posts/owcsam.png/</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/posts/owcsam.png/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NVMe PCIe M.2 Storage Offers The Portability Without The Performance Compromise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class="insert-image"&gt;&lt;img src="https://a-creative.website/posts/owcsam.png/owcsam.png"&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;alt="SSD and Enclosure" width="700" height="auto"&gt;&#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;p&gt;If you're looking to upgrade your storage situation while saving a little money you should look into NVMe PCIe M.2 storage. There are multiple generations and it can get confusing so I'll do a deep into into all that in another blog post. For now we will focus mainly on my latest project and what you will need to follow along with me if you're interested.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blog Post 004 - How To Rip Blu-Ray (4k+4kUHD) With Buffalo</title><link>https://a-creative.website/posts/jellyex.png/</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/posts/jellyex.png/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ditch your paid streaming services and self host with Jellyfin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class="insert-image"&gt;&lt;img src="https://a-creative.website/posts/jellyex.png/jellyex.png"&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;alt="My Jellyfin Server" width="700" height="auto"&gt;&#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Streaming services have been out of control for many years, eventually you hit a breaking point and want to cancel them all. I don't think anyone would mind watching a few ads during their content if it meant one stable price for the platform, unlimited accounts, and access to all quaity formats. That sounds pretty fair to me actually, everyone still gets paid and the customers get the content they want. Instead we're forced to believe it's normal to have the rug pulled out from our feet! You pay for a subscripition, then they want extra money for content packages, extra money for &amp;quot;no ads&amp;quot;, extra money for better video and audio quality, extra money for more users, and then every 9 months they raise the prices for everything by a few dollars and remove more features away!!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blog Post 003 - Self Host Your Website With Github Pages and Hugo</title><link>https://a-creative.website/posts/hugo.png/</link><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/posts/hugo.png/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Self Hosting Made Simple&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;figure class="insert-image"&gt;&lt;img src="https://a-creative.website/posts/hugo.png/hugo.png"&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;alt="The beauty of open source and Github pages" width="700" height="auto"&gt;&#10;&lt;/figure&gt;&#10;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Everyone wants a cool website to show off their work or post blogs (like me) but nobody wants to get looped into the endless subsription fees. Most people end up paying a subsription fee to a domain provider, access to cool website templates(if you don't know what you're doing), extra cloud storage, paying for community add-ons, paying for analytics etc. Before you know it your silly website is costing you $80 a month. People assume the only cheap alternative is using a free boring wix website but I'm here to tell you about the beautiful world of Hugo.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blog Post 002 - Why you should be purchasing the Raspberry Pi 500+ in 2026</title><link>https://a-creative.website/posts/blog-002/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/posts/blog-002/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The best value in 2026 for Raspberry Pi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Right now the Raspberry Pi 500+ is on sale at Microcenter for $200.00 (50% off)&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.microcenter.com/product/699777/raspberry-pi-500-plus"&gt;Link to 500+&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;For a while now, RAM prices have been hitting everyone extremely hard and for my fellow American readers you'll know tariffs aren't helping anything whatsoever. If Microcenter doesn't carry what you want then you're forced to paying scalper prices or buying directly from the source and paying insane tariffs. Most of these SBC manufacturers like &lt;strong&gt;Raspberry Pi&lt;/strong&gt; are located in the UK. With there being no end in the near future to all these price hikes you might have given up on building new projects but I'm here to tell you there is still a chance you can get a good deal in 2026.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>My Projects</title><link>https://a-creative.website/my_projects/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/my_projects/</guid><description>&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Current Projects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FuzzyBuddyFarms - Bee farmer videogame&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks/fuzzybuddyfarms"&gt;&lt;img src="https://svg.bookmark.style/api?url=https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks/fuzzybuddyfarms" alt="FuzzyBuddyFarms"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/ooofruitsnacks/fuzzybuddyfarms" alt="GitHub Release"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vision Assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;currently in private development.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Turtle - Locally hosted CLI LLM coding assistant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks/turtle"&gt;&lt;img src="https://svg.bookmark.style/api?url=https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks/turtle" alt="turtle"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/ooofruitsnacks/turtle" alt="GitHub Release"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;h1 id="what-im-learning"&gt;What I'm Learning&lt;/h1&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;Odin&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;Markdown lol&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;hr&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you want to reach out to me:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email: &lt;a href="mailto:467487@PM.ME"&gt;467487@PM.ME&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Follow along my projects with the source code and videos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;ul&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks"&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;li&gt;YouTube: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Internetpimp"&gt;Owen Edwards&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&#10;&lt;/ul&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This website was made possible by other open source projects&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Make sure to check them out on Github as well to support them. This self-hosted static site is generated by &lt;a href="https://gohugo.io"&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; using the Archie theme &lt;a href="https://github.com/athul/archie"&gt;Archie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Tags</title><link>https://a-creative.website/tags/</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/tags/</guid><description/></item><item><title>About Me</title><link>https://a-creative.website/about/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/about/</guid><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ooofruitsnacks"&gt;&lt;img src="https://readme-typing-svg.demolab.com?font=JetBrains+Mono&amp;amp;weight=700&amp;amp;size=22&amp;amp;duration=2600&amp;amp;pause=700&amp;amp;color=F0F738&amp;amp;center=true&amp;amp;vCenter=true&amp;amp;width=850&amp;amp;lines=building+open+source+projects;having+fun+and+learning;eating+fruitsnacks+somewhere;Coffee%2C+Code%2C+Race%2C+Repeat" alt="Typing SVG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;/div&gt;&#10;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&#10; &lt;picture&gt;&#10; &lt;source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ooofruitsnacks/ooofruitsnacks/output/github-contribution-grid-snake-dark.svg" /&gt;&#10; &lt;source media="(prefers-color-scheme: light)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ooofruitsnacks/ooofruitsnacks/output/github-contribution-grid-snake.svg" /&gt;&#10; &lt;img alt="GitHub contribution snake" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ooofruitsnacks/ooofruitsnacks/output/github-contribution-grid-snake.svg" /&gt;&#10; &lt;/picture&gt;&#10;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&#10; &lt;img src="https://streak-stats.demolab.com?user=ooofruitsnacks&amp;theme=tokyonight&amp;hide_border=true&amp;border_radius=12&amp;hide_total_contributions=true" alt="GitHub Streak" /&gt;&#10;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&#10; &lt;a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23button-pushers:matrix.org"&gt;&#10; &lt;img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Matrix-%40oooFruitSnacks-26A5E4?style=flat-square&amp;logo=matrix&amp;logoColor=white" /&gt;&#10; &lt;/a&gt;&#10; &lt;a href="mailto:467487@pm.me"&gt;&#10; &lt;img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Email-467487%40pm.me-111827?style=flat-square&amp;logo=proton&amp;logoColor=white" /&gt;&#10; &lt;/a&gt;&#10;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Automotive Photographer, Developer, Ferrari Historian, Dumbass&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Hi, my name is Owen Edwards.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;I am 26 years old living in the United States. I have a deep passion for the open source community and I love supporting, contributing, and creating as much as I can. I believe in sharing information with others, for free, in the best interest of eachother, because that is the only way we can create and improve. There is no progression without community. There is no community without access. This website will be home to all my programming projects, blog posts, and other projects I'm working on.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Blog Post 001 - How I Accidentally Created Odin's First SDK Building My Videogame</title><link>https://a-creative.website/posts/blog-001/</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/posts/blog-001/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Under The Hood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;Let's take a deep-dive into my video game written in Odin that ships eight binaries across four operating systems, two CPU architectures, and builds it's own compiler from source and bootstraps that compiler to build the game. It's truly madness! Odin is young. There's no &lt;strong&gt;Cargo&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;go&lt;/strong&gt; build cross-compilation ecosystem of prebuilt runners, no &lt;strong&gt;crates.io&lt;/strong&gt; of packaging helpers, and no &lt;strong&gt;Flathub&lt;/strong&gt; SDK extension. Most Odin projects handle this by not handling it at all, no offense to those other projects. To get around this I had to create my own software dev kit for Odin, hopefully this information can help you too:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Search</title><link>https://a-creative.website/search/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><author>467487@pm.me (Owen Edwards)</author><guid>https://a-creative.website/search/</guid><description/></item></channel></rss>