This summer has been a lot of play time for the kids. I thought we'd incorporate some learning as well. In exchange for some TV time or video game time, we do math drills! I found a really nice codepen to use for the flash card here: https://codepen.io/phantomesse/details/uGHxn It's pretty basic but you can configure the… Continue reading Math Flashcards for the Kids!
Category: Tech
Getting started with Phaser
While going through some pre-work for an upcoming bootcamp, I learned about phaser.io, a popular desktop and mobile HTML5 game framework. I wanted to write up some of the resources that I've found useful so I can refer to them in the future. To be updated as I find more interesting links https://gamedevacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/How-to-Create-a-Game-with-Phaser-3_v2.pdf https://gamedevacademy.org/how-to-make-a-mario-style-platformer-with-phaser-3/ https://www.emanueleferonato.com/2017/04/19/using-tiled-editor-to-create-levels-and-import-them-as-json-data-in-your-html5-swipe-controlled-sokoban-game-made-with-phaser/… Continue reading Getting started with Phaser
Attended AWSSummit Yesterday!
It was nice to be able to go to an industry event. It was certainly a large crowd, 3500 attendees! As usual, the attendees were mostly male. The good side of that was having no queues at the toilets for the ladies. The women were fairly represented on the speakers side though which is quite… Continue reading Attended AWSSummit Yesterday!
Project: Paper Pencil Pen
2 of my 3 kids love to draw, and the only reason that’s not 100% is because the last one is only 1 year old. I think it is great that they are being so creative, but i just wish we could minimize paper use just a liiiittle bit. Think of the trees….. If I… Continue reading Project: Paper Pencil Pen
Clean Install on a Yoga Book
I was recently trying to get my Yoga Book to an ideal state trying to maximize how much space I am using that I think I did something to wreck the recovery partition. After resetting twice, i found an issue where the start menu wasn’t showing my installed Store apps in the search results, which… Continue reading Clean Install on a Yoga Book
Change location of Spotify Offline Content
1. Create a spotify storage folder in your target drive2. go into your spotify settings3. click show advanced settings4. change location of the cache to the folder you created in (1)5. restart spotify!
How to Enter Bios or System Restore on the Yoga Book
Press both Power + Volume Up for about 10 seconds or until the stylus icon lights up. I had to do this when i did a reset via windows 10 settings menu. When i did THAT reset, it made my yoga book unresponsive. After doing a system restore using this menu, things were working… Continue reading How to Enter Bios or System Restore on the Yoga Book
Twitter Fixes the Quote Tweet Button for End Users, but Breaks it For the Brands
Posting this online because i don’t seem to see any conversations about this anywhere and I’m curious how others are measuring the impact of quoted tweets. Twitter made a recent update to how they render quoted tweets on twitter, read more here: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2015/04/07/twitter-is-finally-fixing-the-quote-tweet-button/ As an end user this is great because it… Continue reading Twitter Fixes the Quote Tweet Button for End Users, but Breaks it For the Brands
3 Things That Help Me Be a Smart Phone Drifter
UPDATE: There's been issues with Outlook.com since 27th March, which stopped my contacts from syncing using the native phonebook. I'm still able to sync my contacts via the outlook android app though adding contacts isn't supported with the current version. Breaks my system temporarily.. hopefully they fix it, or enable support for contacts sync… Continue reading 3 Things That Help Me Be a Smart Phone Drifter
Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 SP2 as an alternative to Camtasia
For those of you who want a free alternative to Camtasia, I recommend looking at Expression Encoder http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27870 The tool has support for screen recording as well as PIP web cam recording.
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