How I Work: pipx
How I use pipx
Michael Twomey
How I Work: asdf
The Problem
It's likely you'll have to work on different projects which use different versions of tools. For example you might be working on a Terraform 0.11 project today and a Terraform 0.13 project tomorrow. To make things worse, that Terraform 0.11 project
Make Wildcard Patterns AKA build all the files you find
The Problem
You want Make to automatically build all sources in a given folder without having to specify them each time in the Makefile.
The Solution
You can combine a wildcard to match all the sources, then use a patsubst to name the targets from these, and finally use a
Automatically Making Build Directories in Make
The Problem
There are times in a Makefile where you need a common dependency built first. The most obvious one is the output directories. There are a bunch of options for this, including sticking a mkdir -p $(BUILDDIR) in every target or adding it as a dependency. This can result
Quick update on ELMO-8 and Elm 0.18
Super quick update on ELMO-8:
1. Elm 0.18 came out and brings some really interesting debugging options (yay!)
2. Elm 0.18 came out and not all of ELMO-8's dependencies have updated yet (boo!) (In particular elm-community/webgl and elm-community/linear-algebra need to be published with updated
Working on ELMO-8
I've been busy over the past few months working on various different things (and a job change!).
I helped give a workshop at Joy of Coding 2016 which aspired to build a small platformer using Elm. Alas two things worked against us: Elm 0.17 came out which
ELMO-8: Now With Fonts
Quick update: cute 8-bit fonts work in ELMO-8 now.
Thanks to WebGL Fundamentals for the correct matrix footwork (WebGL 2D Matrices).
I never bothered to get the correct font metrics, and I'm torn as to whether it's worth doing. I rather like the whimsical offsets characters