Using TextMeshPro in a 2D Unity game
Unity has a simple, easy-to-use 2D text option under UI->Legacy->Text. However, this puts a text element on the weird ethereal Canvas that UI stuff sits on, which is probably not what you want...
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A review of GitHub Copilot
I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for Unity development and it is incredible. It has saved me from tons of bugs, speeded up my work by 2x, and even taught me a lot of C# (which Unity uses and I haven’t...
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5-minute design: meme generator
When I’ve talked to people who’ve attempted to make meme tools, they say that search is a really hard problem. This sort of makes sense: one person might search “communism”, another “bugs bunny”, and...
View ArticleShoulders of Giants
I’ve been thinking a lot about construction. Taking a very specific part of the process, building the staircase: you find a carpenter and they build the staircase to your measurements. Generally your...
View ArticleWhy market cap is dumb
When I was a kid, I went to a tag sale “for kids, by kids” where kids sold their junk/toys to other kids. I was wandering around and saw a shoebox filled to the brim with marbles. I went over and...
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Using Warp workflows to make the shell easier
Disclaimer: GV is an investor in Warp. Whenever I start a new Python project, I have to go look up the syntax for creating a virtual environment. Somehow it can never stick in my brain, but it seems...
View ArticleHow to get big files into Compute Engine
I’ve been working with some large models recently and, as a Docker beginner, shoved them all into my Docker image. This worked… sort of… until docker push started trying to upload 20GB of data. Google...
View ArticleHow to set up Python on Compute Engine
This is a followup to my previous post on setting up big files on GCP. I ran into similar problems with Python as I did with static files, but my solution was a bit different. The right wayTM of...
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Generating Voronoi cells in Python
Voronoi cells are basically the shape you see soap suds make. They have a lot of cool properties that I wanted to use for image generation, but I didn’t want to have to figure out the math myself. I...
View ArticleLogin via command line
I’m working on a command-line tool that will require user login, so I wanted to have the flow that all the snazzy command-line clis use: pop up a browser window and ask you to login with <known...
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