(Since this post was written the Quest now natively supports this without using the Virtual Desktop app, but having the correct network setup is still required for a good experience.) With the right network configuration, it’s possible to play VR games from Steam on your Quest 2, without any wires and at a perfect 90FPS
Here is a collection of useful commands when working with Git. I have not included everything you can do with Git, but these are the ones I most often use in my day-to-day life. There is a lot more you can do though. Creating and cloning The first time you use Git you should set up your
There’s a big NFT craze right now. People are buying and selling NFTs for crazy amounts of money, but what even is an NFT? An NFT, otherwise known as a non-fungible token, is a cryptographic token representing something unique. It’s similar to a cryptocurrency, except instead of being a currency it’s instead an item of some
(I have since switched back to WordPress, since IPFS is not very stable and I needed some WordPress features.) I’ve just switched my blog to using Hexo instead of WordPress, and it’s been an interesting experience… Hexo is a static site generator, which means all the code is executed directly in your browser, unlike WordPress which runs
The most common thing I find myself doing with my current home automation setup is turning my fan and light on and off, but it's still not as easy as it could be. To turn off my fan, I open the site on my PC and toggle it there. For my light, I have a
The game now has a camera, HUD, and a tile system where users can generate their own land tiles. For this next part, I think I'll start on the citizens of this world. The AI! Low-poly people For now the people don't even need to look like people, we just need something to display. I'll
Now that the game has a camera, a HUD and a Grass tile, we need to code some actual game logic. To start with, how about a class which handles all the game's data? Eventually this will need to be handled in a better way, but for now we can simply use PlayerPrefs to store
Have you heard of Unity? It's an amazing game engine that lets you create 2D and 3D games quite easily (relatively speaking). I've been playing with it recently and there's so many hidden features and add-ons, it's a lot to get your head around. As a learning experiment for myself, I'd like to try create
As convenient as it is to have my home automation hub running on my PC, it's not very stable. My PC is sometimes off, or not connected to the network, so I'd like to have a dedicated PC just for the purpose of home automation. But I don't want an entire PC running… Enter the
adb is the command-line tool used for interacting with Android devices and debugging Android apps via the terminal. It's an incredibly versatile tool, full of many hidden gems. It can let you debug your apps over WiFi, copy files to/from your device, view logs, run terminal commands, and much more. Here's a quick list of
