Dec 28, 2021Photo Expedition Script RetroThis is a retrospective on my first python script, a command line program I use to sort my photos after returning on a photo expedition. It moves all files from my SD card into a specified folder in my computer, opens a spreadsheet which I fill out with “keeper” photos…Photography4 min readPhotography4 min read
Feb 1, 2021Space Garden — A Flower Genetics SimulationI built a genetics simulation in Phaser 3, React, and Redux. I’ve already written about how to get Phaser and React working together and how I got the isometric perspective in Phaser 3, so I wanted to explain the actual simulation part of the simulation. You can run the simulation…Phaser4 min readPhaser4 min read
Dec 14, 2020Building A Photo Blog on Strapi Gatsby And Typescript: Part 4 DeploymentNow that I got a tolerable front end set up in part 3, I was ready to put this blog out there. Or at least figure out how to. …Strapi6 min readStrapi6 min read
Dec 9, 2020Building A Photo Blog on Strapi Gatsby And Typescript: Part 3 FrontendNow that I got my images onto Strapi with their corresponding iNaturalist data in part 2, I’m ready to fix up the frontend. With my images being served, I noticed they weren’t quite as pretty as I remember. Comparing to the image I have on my hard drive, the difference…Strapi4 min readStrapi4 min read
Nov 18, 2020Building A Photo Blog on Strapi Gatsby And Typescript: Part 2 Connecting the Backend to iNaturalistNow that I’ve gotten my photo blog project set up in part 1, I can start building my Strapi backend. The first thing is to create a new Collection content-type within Strapi. For each Photo, I know I’ll need a title, image, content, and tags for grouping photos in ways…Strapi4 min readStrapi4 min read
Nov 10, 2020Building A Photo Blog on Strapi Gatsby And Typescript: Part 1 Starting to StartI’m building a photo blog for my wildlife photography and I want to integrate with iNaturalist to pull data from there (the location, date, species and taxonomy information). I’m not much of a backend dev (tables tend to already be on the ground so why would I drop one?) so…Strapi4 min readStrapi4 min read
Apr 26, 2020Response To Gold Vision’s Wasp ProblemPeace–seeking, game-playing video shaman GoldVision ’s most recent video Animal Crossing — Wasps, asks a couple of hard questions. I attempt to answer one of those questions, Should I Donate These Wasps? I think it can be useful to understand what options are available. …Animal Crossing5 min readAnimal Crossing5 min read
Aug 27, 2019Creating an Isometric View in Phaser 3Edit: Phaser 3.50 now supports isometric tilemaps. You should probably use that. Full Repo: https://github.com/nodes777/flower-game-phaser3 Demo: http://www.spacegarden.xyz/ I’ve been working on a casual flower genetics game, in the Phaser 3 engine. …JavaScript6 min readJavaScript6 min read
Jul 28, 2019Dynamic Badges with Shields.io and RunkitOne day I woke up and wanted to be a good developer, by writing tests for my flower game. Unfortunately, writing tests for components you’ve already made can be a little boring. Switching into test driven development can be a little more difficult than starting out with TDD. So I…JavaScript4 min readJavaScript4 min read
Jul 8, 2019Setting up Jest with React and PhaserAfter getting my Phaser set up working with React, I knew I needed to be smart about how my web app would grow and implement a testing framework. I chose Jest as my testing engine since Jest seems to be the preferred testing framework for React apps (create-react-app ships with…React4 min readReact4 min read
