I use my desktop workstation as a home-server of sorts. It is great to game in the comfort of your living room, on the TV, with your favorite game pad if you have an Apple TV (or any other compatible device). This is possible using a variety of software; Steam Link, Rainway or if you … [Read more…]
Let’s imagine that we want to manage cancellation of an async operation using generator functions in javascript. When a secondary event occurs, we can listen for it and force the generator function to return by calling its return method and handle cleanup in the finally block, which will always run before a generator returns. Say … [Read more…]
Are you still paying for your SSL certificates? There is a free and open certificate authority called Let’s Encrypt for some time now and its main usage is through its certbot. This means that it can be fully automated! The bot prepares everything for you implementing the ACME protocol and works by placing a file … [Read more…]
Animation is a pain if you do not know how it is implemented. Basically, you are updating a value with respect to time. This is generally done by calculating the time elapsed since the last frame and interpolating this value between its initial and final values. The interpolation needn’t be linear, there are many such … [Read more…]