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Something I've realized after using chatGPT since the preview released is that I am still responsible for knowing what the possibility space is for what I want to do. This helps in…

ChatGPT is now helping me learn terraform ^^;; What a time to be alive.

So... what advise is there for technology comfortable people who want to mitigate the effects of data leaks like these? It seems like data provided is will be exposed eventually an…

Good tip -- engineers are like Jurassic Park because they always find a way. Will you evaluate this tool to see if it affords a nicer workflow for you?

Full disclosure: I'm just a hobbyist game dev with experience with arduino, and volunteering at my local robotics competition. I would recommend getting into arduino. It's fun to b…

Something I've wanted was a way of setting up any computer I touch to have what I want/expect it to have so I can start working in a dev environment. I dev on windows, osx, and Ubu…

For me, it was "Behavior Trees in Robotics and AI: an introduction" What conceptually helped me out was the idea that behavior trees (BTs) are hierarchical finite state machines (H…

I've spent some time testing and thinking about testing. I think the universal guidance that should be followed is this... Do whatever you need/want to that makes your software suc…

I was thinking about getting a part time job at a coffee bar for the weekends (mostly for fun). I'm a little glad I didn't pursue this because I'd hate to lose my primary job as an…

Any advice for others going through this phase of their life? I have a terrible feeling this will be me; when I think of having a child I do think about it as if I will only be liv…

That's good; you get more of a frame budget that way. I saw 90 and even 144 as target frames to avoid VR sickness. It's good to know 72 frames can work too.

As a hobbyist game dev one thing I've (recently) learned is that optimizing performance is paramount in video games. Running at 60 FPS you have a budget of 16 ms per frame (VR requ…

The unnerving thing about this post is just how I could very realistically find myself in similar shoes. I do many things and bet on my ability to learn as I go. Sometimes it does …

Writing automated tests for video games. Why is it interesting to me? I started to teach myself unity in December 2021. I've personally experienced benefits to writing automated te…

Writing automated tests for video games is some of the most fun programming I do.

My therapist says it's important to accept my personal story of how I came to be here. Sometimes that means grieving all the missed opportunities from the past. It's important to i…

I think the author is good with naming symptoms and I think they miss the true culprit. It's not typescript that is causing this pain, no it's the pain of getting correct abstracti…

...And they say 10x engineers are a myth.

This situation certainly feels like it should be in a Dilbert comic.

My fear is if the unity app somehow loses focus, perhaps due to some annoying OS pop up. I'd love to learn more so I can be confident that it could run in production without too mu…

This is a real shame. I met many interesting people on VR chat. Some were exploring identities that only a virtual world would allow them to. Mods enabled these people to lose them…

As a journeyman programmer, I have found a few tools to help me reduce complexity. Abstract interfacing techniques like base classes, abstract classes, and (my favorite) interfaces…

Not as a main gig, but I frequent an arcade bar very often. I've started light research into how I might put together an arcade cabinet running a unity app using a raspberry pi. I …

Outsourcing stories are interesting to me for a couple reasons. (1) Why do people think subpar programming from outsourcing companies will always hold true? The more business/exper…