Mage Steve's Developer Magic

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Tech Blog offline for 4 days, as I have fun at MagFest (suitably masked)!

Where else can I play the original Pacman coin-op, demo arena-size Space Pirates VR on Oculus Quest, and give lessons on Light Saber combat?

https://super.magfest.org

Rand Miller, Co-Creator of Myst, talks about how they got the game running on CD-Rom.

Ars Technica has a fascinating series of videos, “War Stores”, about early video game development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX5B6cD4_4

Thanks to Peter Friese's explanation of the SwiftUI lifecycle.  It is similar to a traditional one, but with different entry points.

An App’s Lifecycle is one of the most important things a Developer should know in-depth.

https://peterfriese.dev/ultimate-guide-to-swiftui2-application-lifecycle/

To animate the snow art, Mohammad Azam explains animation under SwiftUI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMBDODEOkqw

A nice high-level summary of Websockets vs Restful APIs.

Though mostly oriented for AWS, the YouTube channel “Be a Better Dev” has some great videos for all types of developers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG4dkrlaZAA

HDMI 2.1a has some nice features but is an “optional” standard, so most devices probably won’t support it.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/29/22856103/hdmi-2-1a-spec-standard-mess-cables-source-based-tone-mapping-ces-2022

All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.