Rabidgremlin's Soapbox

Got a ton of old side projects, disk spice getting tight?

This is my minimal devcontainer for playing around with AI stuff, using Codex.

If you want to develop Manim animations easily the a Jupyter notebook makes as great working environment.

If you are messing with data then, you can’t beat a Jupyter notebook as a working environment.

I was asked by a customer to give a talk about right-sizing user stories.

I’ve been doing a lot of work with Docker of late mostly for creating easy dev and test environments.

Last month Google held it’s annual Google IO conference.

Here are the next two videos in the series: The rest of the videos can be found here

After much delay I’ve finally started recording a series of videos on creating a 2D game using Unity.

Built this with the kids last weekend, using the Lego Mindstorms EV3 set they bought be for my birthday.

To create a private key to sign your Android apps with, you need to run the keytool command (installed when you install a Java development kit) as follows. keytool -genkey -v -keystore myandroid.keystore -alias myandroidkey -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -vali…

Finally got over a cold so I could record part 2 of my tutorial :) You can play the game here on the PICO-8 website

My first attempt at YouTube video/tutorial thing.

Got myself on the radio again last week talking about “scrubbing yourself from the Internet”.

This script uses qshape to print out the details of deferred emails in Postfix.

23114, 584, 46931, these three numbers were used to create the entire universe for Elite.

This is a quick, step by step guide to creating a simple app for Android using Unity.

After watching this fantastic interview with Sean Murray about No Man’s Sky I’ve been inspired to write a bit about procedural content generation.

Last Friday I got to do live radio for the first time!

It looked a lot bigger to the naked eye…

Years ago I was given a shiny, silver Robosapien.

Python ships with a handy little web server that will serve up the files in the folder from which it is run.

In the mid 80’s my tweenish self was introduced to something that blew my mind and that was Robotech.

YouTube has changed the way we watch and shared videos so I thought that I would collate some fun facts about YouTube for this post.

It turns out X is for quite a lot of things: In mathematics, ‘x’ is commonly used as the name for an independent variable or unknown value.

I’m late, I’m late , I’m Late… with this blog post :(

Physics based games, especially on mobile devices have become de rigueur.

If you want to make games, Unity is a tool you should look at.

Been working on my taxes so have been a bit slack in posting… However I thought that I would share this graph which shows where all your tax money was planned to go for 2013⁄2014 (if you are New Zealander that is): Source http://www.interest.co.nz/news/64…

I use public transport religiously.

Traylix waited, he wasn’t nervous but he was pretty sure that something was about to go wrong; it always did.

Well, I was going to blog about Quaternions and how Unity really makes it easy to do 3D stuff without you having to have a deep understanding of math but I ran out of time!

It costs 40c to produce every dollar in New Zealand which, is pretty astounding figure.

Today I thought I’d go through some of the Open Source software that I regularly use.

Busy day, so no deep and meaningful post today :( Instead I give you a clip from one of the funniest movies ever:

I do a heaps of Android development and whilst it appears straightforward there are quite a lot of subtleties, particularly when dealing with threads and UI updates, that generate all sorts of app crashes.

Logo was one of first programming languages (after BASIC) that I really learned in depth.

I’d thought I’d give the Kinect Fusion demos a try.

So I bought a Raspberry Pi a couple of months ago and I’ve been having all sorts of fun trying out different things.

Insel is a fantasy setting I’ve been working on for a role playing game.

Windows 7 and above has a neat feature called hosted networking.

The last decade has seen a renaissance in board gaming.

Feature Driven Development (FDD) is my favorite Agile methodology.

My eldest (currently 5) is big on “making” inventions” and experiments.

Alright, I thought I’d do a quick blog on the DNS or the Domain Name Service?

I believe that everyone should be able to program a computer!

I have tinkered with 3D graphics for years, using POV-Ray in the mid nineties and later Hash Animation:Master.

I started this blog way back in 2001, the 2nd of October 2001 to be exact (according to the Way Back Machine) However in the last year or so I’ve been very slack at posting anything (other then my automated tweet logs).

I have recently been doing some development with the Bottle Python web app framework.