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In Defense of Friendslop Games

In Defense of Friendslop Games

Making This video was pretty fun. I low key lost myself in the nostalgia when I was getting the b roll for the old games. I tried some new things like masking when I edited this video. That's why it was a little late lol. But yeah, let

How to NOT Fail at Level Design

How to NOT Fail at Level Design

I deep dived the many aspects of level design for this video. Started looking at speed build in unreal engine and environment design portfolios. What is Level design vs Environment Design? As an indie dev these two things are intertwined and you will be doing both all the time, and

How It Feels to Make Your Dream Game in Unreal Engine 5 - Custom player model and IK retargeting

How It Feels to Make Your Dream Game in Unreal Engine 5 - Custom player model and IK retargeting

I will preface this by saying that I don't believe in dream games, I believe in making cool art and mechanics for a game. This was mostly me announcing that I was going on my game dev journey. And info dumping all the things I've been

I Finally Made My First YouTube Video

I Finally Made My First YouTube Video

I changed the concept for this video like 6 times and also moved everything around so much, it was crazy. I just wanted to make something unique, that I couldn't find online but was interesting or unique enough to watch. At least in my eyes. So, I looked

What Did I Do In 2024

What Did I Do In 2024

I started working in IT for this Agriculture Tech company called Datatech. And to quote my linked in profile lol This role mainly involves managing IT solutions for small to medium-sized businesses. My expertise includes configuring and maintaining Windows Server environments, managing Active Directory, and deploying, updating and troubleshooting PFSense

What I did In 2023

What I did In 2023

So 2023 has been a year.. I became a dad, got my associates in web development and Information technology and started working for a solar SME. I've been away from computer science, coding & IT related stuff this year. I did learn a lot about solar (PV systems

Evolution Of My Landing Pages

Evolution Of My Landing Pages

These are a collection of websites made with static HTML & CSS for classes I took or for The Odin Project. One of the first things I did as an introduction. Yes, very cringe. But I though the floating pizza was cool. Demo on GitHub Pages Here is the first

Some More Starter JavaScript Projects.

Some More Starter JavaScript Projects.

Paper Rock Scissors Created using vanilla JavaScript and manipulating elements in the DOM. And storing the variables in local storage. Source Code on GitHubDemo on GitHub Pages The Donut shop This project was also created using vanilla JavaScript. And stored variables in the local storage. Source Code on GitHubDemo on

Etch-A-Sketch Made With JavaScript

Etch-A-Sketch Made With JavaScript

Here is another project I made for The Odin Project. I actually had a lot of fun trying to figure this one out and was very happy to have something to play around with afterwards. Source Code on GitHubDemo on Github Pages

Calculator Made With JavaScript

Calculator Made With JavaScript

Here is a calculator I made while learning from The Odin Project. It is not perfect or secure due to the eval function bit it was pretty fun to put together. Source code on GitHubDemo on GitHub Pages

Random Friend Generator API

Random Friend Generator API

This is a small school project I made to demonstrate use of an API and async await in JavaScript. Just the basics. Source Code on GitHubDemo on Guthub Pages

My Top 10 Board Games To Pass The Time

My Top 10 Board Games To Pass The Time

Here are some of my favorite board games #10 Villainous Villainous is the first boardgame I've played where you can play together separately. Everyone has an objective, but we are not using the same board. This game can be fun when everyone knows how to play, but starting

My Top 5 YouTube Channels of 2021

My Top 5 YouTube Channels of 2021

I love watching YouTube here are some of my favorite channels. Digital Foundry Digital Foundry has some really great technical content that contrasts the capabilities of current and older hardware. They have broken the news to many great stories in the gaming industry, and I hope they continue to do

Getting Your First Web Developer Job

Getting Your First Web Developer Job

Notes on how we can break into the industry as web developers How to get your first software development job How to get experience Breaking into the industry seems like a catch 22 but people who break into the industry can show work that they have build. working on your

Introduction to The Cloud

Introduction to The Cloud

Notes on how the cloud helps us as web developers What is the cloud? Before Cloud Computing You had to buy a stack of servers. You had to maintain your own servers and expand when you had more traffic. Disadvantages setting up your own servers costs a lot of money.

Ecommerce Platforms

Ecommerce Platforms

Notes about Ecommerce Compare Shopify Pros Most popular e-commerce platform. Built with ecommerce entrepreneurs in mind. Free 14 day trial. Has useful apps and plugins. Cons Is more expensive can be 29$ a month Bigcommerce Pros Has some built in features that are great for ecommerce, but shopify has added

Payment Gateways

Payment Gateways

Contrasting different Payment Gateways What is a payment gateway? and how does it work? A payment gateway is a software application that payment service providers use to process payments for online purchases. A gateway can be used for many types of payment methods, but this video focuses on credit cards.

What is CMS?

Squarespace vs WordPress: The Differences Squarespace Squarespace is a High level complete package that includes hosting, themes, plugins and more. Can only be hosted on squarespace servers. Squarespace is is more user friendly but less flexible. You don't have to think about technicalities. WordPress WordPress is not a

Learning SEO!

Notes on how to SEO works and how to take advantage of it Quality Rater Guidelines Google hires thousands of individual human beings and makes them answer questions about websites they searched up on google and how well the websites match the search criteria, keywords, the reputation, etc. Google has

Web Developer Roadmap

Web Developer Roadmap

Notes on the current web developer landscape Web Developer Roadmap The video starts by explaining the connections between all the things we should learn in the current web developer landscape. The best way to learn to code is to work day to day in teams for a company. Where to

Become A Web Developer - History Of The Web

Become A Web Developer - History Of The Web

Notes about the history of the web. WWW vs The Internet Tim berners-Lee Created the world wide web = WWW in the URL in 1989. The internet started with the arpanet in 1969 as a military project to connect a few unerversities. Throuought the 70's and 80's

About CIT82 Web Technologies

About CIT82 Web Technologies

Notes about the course. Git vs Github. We learned the difference between Git and GitHub. We are going to use git to manage our code, while we use GitHub to store and host our code. Discuss Web Certificate and Degree. We were showed that you can strive for a web