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• Lessons from Creating My First Godot Game

  December 17, 2019

  Hello aspiring game devs! As you know from my previous post I've been getting into Godot, and I'm pretty excited. As I follow this course on Udemy, after every tutorial I try to make a game. I always make a game that's harder than what I just worked on. This w

• Thoughts After Making My First Godot Game

  November 28, 2019

  Godot is a 2D and 3D game engine that has been on my radar for quite some time. Reviews for it are mostly positive, the scripting language is similar to Python (yay), and it's open source. The open source bit is pretty cool not just for philosophical reasons.

• October 2019 Game Project: Approximately

  October 6, 2019

  To be honest, this is really more of an August - October game project. It started at the end of Jammin 2019 and I was finally able to close it off in October. The theme for that jam was Growth, so the game plays on that concept with a super simple puzzler. You

• Add a Contact Form to Your Static Site

  September 9, 2019

  Hey Static Website developers! Here's a quickie into a feature which a lot of static websites don't really come out of the box with - a contact page! Contact forms are traditionally processed via server side logic: the form data is posted to an endpoint, proce

• Mock Servers with OpenAPI and API Sprout

  July 18, 2019

  Hey API developers! This is a pretty quick post that could save you time like it did for me! In my current job we develop a lot of microservices, the majority being RESTful. For each microservice we define an OpenAPI specification - a YAML file that describes

• January 2019 Game Project: Swerve

  February 3, 2019

  While in a car on one of T&T's many bad roads, we had to immediately dodge a deep pothole. I thought I should make a quick game about dodging potholes - and Kontra was just the tool for throwing it out quickly. I've been familiar with Kontra.js before so it wa

• Add Posts from Another Site to Hexo

  February 3, 2019

  Hey everyone! In my last post I wrote about scraping another website I write articles for, which I include here https://msanatan.com/categories/other/. This is how I integrated them in the site. First Attempt with JSON I first tried to load the extra blog post

• Weekend Hack, Another Scraper

  January 20, 2019

  So I recently started to write programming articles for another website. I thought it'd be a good idea to link the articles in my website. I've set it up here: https://msanatan.com/categories/other/. The first thing I needed to do was get all my articles in on

• Static Sites for Quick Relief

  January 14, 2019

  In October 2018, Trinidad and Tobago experienced a period of consistently heavy rainfall. As simple as that sounds, it resulted in a devastating natural disaster where many people lost all their belongings. Thankfully, the response to the flooding was immense.

• Micro Games with Kontra.js

  August 31, 2018

  Hello game developers, So my good friend Lasana put me on to a month long game competition: Js13kGames. Essentially you got to make a game in JavaScript that when zipped is 13kb or less. Sounds like fun! The constraints forces some interesting creativity, from