The Wick Blog

I have been a Visual Studio Code user for years now, it has been the IDE of choice for almost all my projects. But recently after some debating I have decided to give JetBrains a try. JetBrains if you don't know is the maker of IDE's such as PyCharm, IntelliJ, and more. For years I have looked at that pesky price tag and said to myself who would buy that. Now I am that person, after years of Visual Studio Code it has finally annoyed me enough to swallow that price tag. Let me explain. The reason I used Visual Studio Code was because of the flexibility, just install an extension for just about any feature you can think of and bam, its in VSCode. And it is still flexible with the thousands of community made extensions that can add almost any feature you want. Then you could just open any file and be ready developing in whatever language or even just to view the contents of a file with a nice style. However the more features that get added the more the bad part of VSCode starts to...

So, Valve released their official Dock for their Steam Deck, and I got my hands on one to try out. So, let’s talk about it. First the good things, its small looks great and ironically fits in the dent with the strap on the Steam Decks case (can't be coincidence). It works great with the Steam Deck (right now we will talk about that) and even gets firmware updates from the Steam Deck to add more features as time goes on. I use it to dock my Steam Deck below my main monitor and connected it to it so it’s easy to switch inputs and play on the Deck while sitting back in my chair. However, for all the good parts I must talk about its issues. The first big thing I want to say is the $99 price tag, really. It’s a generic dock why is it $99. There where docks released BEFORE the official one for CHEAPER and with equivalent features and not like $80 or something but like $50, literally half the price. After the amazing work getting the Deck to $400 its insane that the dock would be priced s...

Recently I got the notification that my Steam Deck was ready and has shipped and for the past three days or so I have been testing it out and using it so I though I would write a post about my first impressions and maybe writing another post later going into more detail once I feel I have used it long enough for my opinions to form completely and for any problems to come out if there are any. So let me begin. The first thing I want to talk about is the look and feel of the device, probably the most important thing to nail for a hand held device. And to my surprises for the form factor it feels great! It looks like it would be clunky to hold being so much bigger than something like the Nintendo Switch, but at least for my hands it fits great and all of the controls also have good feedback without also being annoying or noisy. However at least for me the back paddles I personally have a hard time clicking them, not because they are difficult to click I think its just because of not expec...