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Pandemic Educational Resources

Education and Technology

I wanted to take a moment to thank all of the educational companies who have taken steps to make free content available to all the students who are at home sheltering in place. I’m so happy that my company was able to make resources available, but I’m also very pleased that so many others were […]

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

Education and Technology, Software Development

I was inspired by a free handout at my local public library, it was a “1000 books before kindergarten” workbook. The idea is that you track each book that you read with your children and try to read 1000 books before they begin kindergarten.To begin with, this seems like a lofty goal! 1000 books are […]

Server Side Swift

Software Development

Getting started with server side swift and Vapor.

Age-appropriate design

Education and Technology Educational Games

Learn how to design your app with age appropriate design while keeping user privacy in mind.

Automatic login with SSH

Software Development

Introduction If you use ssh to connect to remote servers, you should not use a password to log in to them, and instead configure a key to log in. There are exceptions to this, but even then it is good to have a key that will be used to improve security and allow you to […]

Hex Game – Randomly Building Game Boards

Game Development

In the first part of this series, I introduced the rules of the game and discussed some much-needed improvements to make the game more fun. The most pressing issue is the ‘first click lose’ issue and the ‘unwinnable game’ issue. Both of these are sure to ruin the fun. This post discusses methods of generating boards […]

Epic Fun as Nova

Fun-N-Games

Heroes of the Storm Fun replay! From Ragnaros Perspective Nova Perspective

Hex Game – Initialization

Game Development Random

I started working on a new game recently, you can see the progress here on GitHub. The game is kind of like Minesweeper, but with Hexes instead of squares. Rules The rules of the game are pretty simple, find all the goals before you run out of energy. If you run out of energy before […]

HTML canvas bezierCurveTo buidler

Software Development

There are a few things about HTML5 drawing, that can be very difficult to program, especially if you don’t have a way to visually build it. Drawing diagrams with a move to and line to, can be handled simply with a sheet of graph paper, or as I do, just imagine it, but drawing with […]

Safari Masquerading as iPhone

Software Development

As promised, here is a re-post of how to get Safari to masquerade as an iPhone so that you can test your websites user agent sniffing. Open Safari’s Preferences dialog. Enable the development menu in safari Preferences. First select Advanced, then make sure the “Show Develop menu in menu bar” is checked. Close the Preferences […]