Time races

Exactly one year ago I commited the first version of GitUI to Github. It’s crazy how quickly the time passed by and now we celebrate the first year anniversary🥳.

What is...

Problem

We recently switched from downloading and parsing JSON in our Unity client to a binary format based on Flatbuffers. In this this article you are going to learn:

• why we did that
• what Flatbuffers is anyway
• how...

Vision

Over the years and over the course of many projects a certain way to structure a game project in Unity emerged that proved particularly scalable (maintainable).

For a long time I wanted to write...

I recently started looking into using Rust and the Godot Game Engine for developing games. A very quick experiment recently was to compare performance of GDScript, Visual scripting and Rust for the same task.

The Contest

It is...

Today it is time to announce gitui:

Over the last couple of weeks, my side project was this little tool and some may know it from the occasional tweet already:

gitui...

So in this story our hero sets out to do something that seemed trivial: Adding continuous deployment to a github repo automating deployment of a little macOS binary to homebrew.

Marketplace Actions

The beauty of...

Email — this age old tool that will not die. You need email to register accounts, have a point of contact for your customers and business contacts. It is the only really standardised communication channel.

I always looked for a chance to dig into the go programming language. Recently I found the perfect opportunity: writing an Alexa Skill in go!

This is a quick writeup of how to set up a simple ci pipeline for a go project on gitlab using golang’s 1.11 modules.

At work we are using bitbucket server for our source code and slack for our communication. The following gives you an insight into how to make a bitbucket plugin that talks to Slack.

The...

Live-Ask.com provides a simple, free, and real-time service for the audience to ask questions before and during panel discussions, conference presentations, meetups, and more. Think of Live-Ask as your one-stop solution for moderating discussions.

I finally disabled my old page/bog that was still running, outdated and ugly ;). Why did it take so long? Because it still had some vsluable content that people regularly looked for and read. Especially my articles about gameserver developmont...

As mentioned in my last “worth reading” (which was really a ‘worth watching’) my team and I do Video Lunches regularly. This post focuses on that great concept and hopefully leaves you considering it in your team as well....

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

In this installment I focus less on reading but on watching. These...

Oh wow its more than a year since my last ‘worthreading’ :( It was a crazy ride! Crazy hours at work, speaking at 4 conferences and 2 vacations later I am here now. I tried to recollect the some...

In my last post I already talked about the experience of talking at a big developer conference like GDC. This time I want to share some research that I...

This years GDC is over again already. It was an exciting new experience for me because I was one of the speakers. This post is about how I got there and how it was like.

As I wrote last week in my post about Alexa I started looking into developing custom skills for Alexa.

Custom Skills for Alexa are like apps for mobile devices. Amazon...

About 2 weeks ago I suddenly got my inventation to order an echo dot. The echo device family is the entry point to using the Alexa natural language processing service from...

Some time ago I was asked to write an article about how we approach assembling teams for our current mobile game productions. This article is now live on pocketgamer.biz: article

What can I expect?

We were facing the...

Did you ever try to do non-blocking WWW-requests in Unity without being in playmode ? Then you know about the problems here:

• WWW uses coroutines to be used non-blocking
• Coroutines do not work outside the playmode
• Triggering a...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

Tools: oh my zsh

Great tool to have a an extendended...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

Unity

• “Integrating Visual Studio with Unity3d on Mac using UnityVS...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

Podcast: “John Sonmez on Marketing Yourself and Managing Your Career”

Really...

During the holidays I finally found the time to work a little bit on my mobile app STACK4. It has been a while but I still have a few points on my todo...

Categories Page

First I wanted to make use of the categories labels I kept adding to my posts. Since I am using github pages to host this site dynamic jekyll plugins are...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

###Posts regarding Unity

“10000 UPDATE() CALLS”

Useful insights into Unity internals...

I want to use this way to announce some news that I did not have the time to blog about. These news divide esentually in two categories: career and projects update:

##Career Update:

Since August 2015 I am back to...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

###Book: “Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage”

Amazon.com link

I found this book...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

###Post: “How to Use Docker on OS X: The Missing Guide”

So...

This short post is just a wrap up of how to setup linux like terminal (bash) colors on osx.

This is how the terminal coloring is default on osx:

Simply edit or create the...

I recently made my first homebrew contribution. homebrew is a package manager for osx much like yum/apt-get and the like you know from linux systems. Since this may not be the last time I did this or have to...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider these kind of posts as an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

###Talk: Scott Meyers

Presentations by Scott Meyers are always entertaining. This one...

Recently I wanted to package an application that I have written in D so that it would feel like a native osx application bundle. Nothing fancy.. Boy little did I know.. Even though an app bundle is nothing more than...

###D and Fibers

Fibers are D’s concept for resumable functions and the barebone behind the popular event driven framework vibe.d. In the unecht project I recently added a generic system to use resumable functions much like

What do menus and annotations have to do with the D programming language ? These three aspects form a very nice little system in my current spare time project of a game engine called unecht.

The whole engine...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider this post an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

###SCM for social graphs

Interesting idea to use SCM to generate social graphs for code...

So I needed a flexible and easy to use intermediate GUI for one of my projects in D. There was a pretty descent library natively written in D called dimgui that I started to use. It made me...

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider this post an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

“Networking for Physics Programmers” at GDC2015

Glenn Fiedler - famous for his insightful

The following stuff is what caught my eye in the last couple of weeks. Consider this post an entry in my personal knowledge base ;)

Talk about Efficiency at CppCon2014

Chandler Carruth gave a talk named “Efficiency with Algorithms,...

Recently I decided to start a new blog/website based on Github Pages. For now this site runs in parallel with my old website www.extrawurst.org but eventually this pages is gonna be shutdown. This post is about my first impressions...

So this is my new blog driven by github-pages.

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