Adventures in diy, electronics, programming, remote control and anything else.
UPDATE: Found a great Reddit thread explaining how to turn off a lot of the logging. After waiting for Windows 10 to finishing installing you get presented with a customize wizard. The first screen has a large chunk of text on it, a large and clearly visible button to proceed using the default settings, and a small hard to see text link that lets you choose your own setting values instead of the…
Impatient? Me too. I found a way to skip waiting for the Windows 10 upgrade to roll it’s way onto your machine and force an upgrade right now. I wrote this post because a bunch of other methods of forcing the upgrade didn’t work for me. tl;wr? Here’s the no BS version for power users: Download Windows 10 Media Creation Tool Run Media Creation Tool and choose the “Upgrade this PC” option on the…
This post is meant to help you get started with a simple automated CI pipeline, using Travis-CI for Unity3D projects. Unity3D’s ability to cross-compile your game for tons of platforms is pretty badass. It solves the multi-platform problem well. But, it still leaves a lot up to the developer, like, actually making the game (duh!) and getting the finished game builds to the player. Often developers…
A while back I released my first Unity3D game for iOS and Android. The original version had very basic gameplay and graphics, so I thought it would be fun to revamp the color scheme and add a few things to make the gameplay a little better. Color all the things! I really like the white on red icon, so I decided rebuild the game’s scene based on the high contrast, white on red depicted in the app…
Recently I decided that I wanted to push myself a little and commit code every day. I am checking in to share some things I have learned after 100 days of continuous committing. Anyone that uses git probably knows that you can fake the Github commit streak count. And that’s totally fine. The value for me is not in the publicly available streak number. This “challenge” is something I wanted to do…
I almost didn’t share this because I actually enjoyed accidentally finding and experiencing this bug. And I had way too much fun showing it to anyone that happened to stroll past my desk in the last two days! I didn’t dig into the page source to see if this looked intentional therefore I choose to believe it is a kick ass UI bug! (Although I kind of want it to stick around now.) Reproduce Me, If…
Anyone who has had the privilege to setup and manage their own Minecraft server knows that it is kind of a pain in the ass. Sure, there is a large community that has grown up around the open source server versions, Bukkit and Spigot, but there are surprisingly few guides that focus on settings things up right and planning for maintaining the system in the future. Overall, I get the sense that most…
Hello? Is this thing on? Good. I have been wanting to switch my blog off of WordPress and over to Jekyll for a very long time. Well, I finally did it. Why I Ditched self-hosted WordPress I was running a self-hosted installation of WordPress. It was slow, hard to change and just felt way too heavy for what I needed. I write posts rather infrequently. In fact, I suck at writing new posts and will…
Update 1/4/15: Version 1.2 is out! Check out this rambling post if you’re awesome. I have always wanted to make a video game, so back in May I spent a Sunday going through this awesome Unity tutorial picking up some basics and building out a sample platformer game. Now, I’ve finally went back to that project, gave it a name, made it an icon and decided to submit it to the Apple App Store and the…
I finally had a chance to checkout the new Twitch integration in Minecraft 1.7.4 and I was amazed at how easy it was to get started. I was up and streaming within a few minutes. All I had to do was login to my Minecraft account and connect it to my Twitch account. I did have to restart Minecraft because the streaming settings didn’t appear at first. Other than that, no issues. Just hit F6 and…