More news from this year’s Game Developers Conference shows some amazing next-gen graphics from Epic Games through their Unreal Engine. It’s certainly worth checking out the article at Tom’s Hardware right here.
In a recent experimental 2D gamedev project, I wanted to play around with drawing a bunch of game entities purely algorithmically rather than creating sprites for each of them. One important technique I ended up using was Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). In this post, I’ll go over the most basic implementation (we’ll draw a circle!) and explain how and why it works.
In December of 2023, due to carpal tunnel, I switched from my Happy Hacking Keyboard setup to a Kinesis Advantage 360. It’s been two years and change, and I haven’t looked back. Well, kind of.
The latest version, v0.10.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here. This new version adds the ability to use aliases in Markdown footnotes, a great way to keep links short and organized.
mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]].
In a New Year’s resolution-driven attempt to un-Microsoft-ify my life, I’m moving all of my repositories over from GitHub (owned by Microsoft) to sourcehut (owned by some dude). This blog was the first repo to make the switch and was previously hosted via GitHub Pages, and now uses sourcehut pages instead. Here’s the config I created to make the CI-driven deployment work: