Hoarding and Hackery

Resources on Object Oriented Programming

I find myself often pasting websites and resources I have collected over the years into Discord chats. I thought I'd start putting them into articles here so I can just link to them as needed. Design PatternsDesign Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - The classic C++ OOP book.Design

Implementing Third Person Cameras

The secret to implementing a third person camera is to use Polar coordinates relative to your target object. Here's a couple of demos I wrote back in May to demonstrate the technique. One is a 2D version in PICO-8 to demonstrate the basics, another is a 3D demo in Godot.

Raylib Recitals: Custom Cursor

Raylib is a C language game programming library that's designed to be easy to use, so you can concentrate on prototyping and having fun. Modelled after my PICO-8 examples I'm starting a new set of articles called "Raylib Recitals" designed to be simple single file examples of how to get

Robotics

Halloween Hackery

Building a foot controlled sweet dispensing robot from junk box parts to allow lockdown Trick or Treating!

PICO-8

Directly addressing pixels in PICO-8

How to address pixels directly in PICO-8.

Commodore 64

Software preservation from an old magazine

On Sunday morning I was bored (and mildly hung over) and I decided to do something I'd been meaning to for a while - type out a listing from an old magazine. The remains of my copy of Commodore Format 53 are falling apart and I'd wanted to type in

Java

javageohash36

I needed a pure Java implementation of the GeoHash36 algorithm for a project I'm working on. So, on a Saturday in October 2019, I ported the C implementation (libgeohash36) to Java. I'm hoping to improve the port a little more before releasing it on Maven Central in the next few

Programming

PICO-8 Tutorials

A year or so ago I started writing some programming tutorials using PICO-8. PICO-8 is a "Fantasy Console" that can be programmed in a dialect of the programming language Lua and it's a great piece of software to learn computer programming with. These tutorials are built for clarity rather than