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Blue Noise Streets and a GameJam
Or 48 hours of insanity part 1
Nov. 2, 2020 • A weeping man
After a month of hard work work, contract work, and hobby work I can safely say my skills have never been stronger. You can check out Blue Noise - Streets in the Tearcell Arcade to see what I...
Progress or Not
or The realities of work
Oct. 17, 2020 • A weeping man
The saying 'Some years feel like days and some days feel like years' seems apt this month. Already October and while I don't feel that productive on the hobbyist front, my upgrad...
October Report
or How I always learn something new about Django
Oct. 8, 2020 • A weeping man
I've said it before but I'm consistently surprised by how much you can accomplish so quickly with the Django Rest Framework and of course Django. This week in a fit of anger I stood...
Frustration Now 9-29-20 edition
Or how we wasted a day for no reason
Sept. 29, 2020 • A weeping man
If I can save you one head ache when developing for the SerivceNow mobile agent... if I can save you one frustrating day... then this will all have been worth it. When using Multi-scan for t...
Scope Creep
or How I'm bad at time management
Sept. 25, 2020 • A weeping man
By this point in my career I'd like to think I have time management skills down, but I keep surprising myself. The grand goal of this months project was a 'point and click meets zelda...
Diving into Pixel Art
Or how I spent 20 minutes drawing a rock
Sept. 14, 2020 • A weeping man
In my defense the rocks came out pretty darn good. My hobbiest game development journey has finally reached a point where my visions out pace my budget and free assets, so like so many other...
Shaders are voodoo
Or the rabbit hole has no bottom
Sept. 3, 2020 • A weeping man
As the next hobbyist game project continues, I'm leaning more heavily on shaders then previous endeavors. It's really amazing what they can do, but its also the first coding topic sin...
Wrapping up month four
or Is it cheating that this isn't a game?
Aug. 25, 2020 • A weeping man
Month four of the 12 month challenge is nearing its end. This month did not go as I expected but in a lot of ways it was also a very necessary 'break' from the previous three. What wa...
Navigating the sea of frameworks
Or of javascript frameworks and men
Aug. 11, 2020 • A weeping man
Picking a front end for my single page application was trying. The deeper you go in development the more overwhelming it can all feel, with too many choices that are 90% the same, but that last...
100 Angles
Or the headaches of using angular 1-9
Aug. 3, 2020 • A weeping man
I started doing the Safeharbour projects years ago and at the time I decided to use the relatively new Ionic Framework to get the job done. It used Angular 1.0 and as I liked the idea of hybr...