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
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
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
Promises are awesome. They remove a lot of the complexity of dealing with asynchronous code, and ever since I started using them in Javascript I've never gone back to callbacks. When it comes to Android development I've done a bit of experimenting with RxKotlin, but it was a bit overcomplicated for my needs. Recently I've
I often create React apps for work and even for myself personally, but one thing that has always bothered me is how much configuration there is. Even using create-react-app, there are so many scripts involved that sometimes it plain doesn't work right out of the box. I don't want to waste time configuring my project,
Have you heard of High Fidelity? As the spiritual successor to Second Life, it allows you to create shared VR (and non-VR) experiences, hosted on your own server, for people to enjoy. Everything inside a High Fidelity domain is an Entity, which is a 3D model that can have JavaScript code attached to it, running
Have you ever written a script in Node.js and wished the output was more interesting? Terminal Kit for Node allows you to modify the colors and style of your console output, as well as doing more interactive things like asking the user for input, showing graphics, etc. Have a look at the package on NPM
