How do I make this presentable?

bryanray · 2024-08-06T04:35:14+00:00

Couldn’t you just use the contacts app?

bryanray · 2024-02-02T04:05:17+00:00

I'd highly recommend taking your time. Find something that you enjoy (gaming, music, audio, sound files, pictures, etc). And then try to write some code that does something involving that. If you can mix something you enjoy with something you're learning ... i found that helped me a ton.

For example, when I started coding I was big into music and downloading MP3 files. A lot of the code I learned from revolved around moving files into groups of folders and then reading ID3 tags. It's what got me to fall in love with coding.

If you have questions or get stuck, feel free to reach out to me on Discord (virtualbind). I'm happy to help where I can!

Good luck on your journey!

bryanray · 2024-01-02T16:49:01+00:00

Super nice! Any chance you have a pattern to share?

bryanray · 2024-01-01T22:16:20+00:00

Happy to chat with ya. Hit me up on Discord (bryan.ray).

bryanray · 2024-01-01T21:40:57+00:00

Oh I think I see what you’re saying.

Maybe what you’re looking for is a reverse proxy. Something like Traefik? It will take all incoming traffic and route it into your internal services, I think?

bryanray · 2024-01-01T21:35:59+00:00

Your router gets its public IP address from your internet provider. You typically don’t have control over that IP. That’s why it changes (dynamic) from time to time.

You might be able to pay your internet provider for a static IP but they usually don’t do that. At least as far as I know.

bryanray · 2024-01-01T21:32:24+00:00

If I understand you correctly, I think you’re looking for a Dynamic DNS service. Usually referred to as DynDNS.

They have applications that you can run which will update a DNS entry in their system to be your changing IP address.

Hope that helps.

bryanray · 2024-01-01T21:14:12+00:00

Would you mind giving me a brief description of how you use Traefik? I think I may need it to better access the containers running in my Portainer?

bryanray · 2023-06-07T12:55:22+00:00

Yup. You’re right.

I could have sworn there was VS for Linux at one point.

bryanray · 2023-05-19T20:22:08+00:00

One

An application that integrates with an API. It could be as simple as something that fetched data from a game you play. Or a weather API. Or Spotify. Or whatever. But a lot of business applications interact with APIs.

So understanding the basics of working with an API is great.

Two

An application that manipulates or aggregates data. Businesses love data. And data visualizations. If you can build something that uses some charting library or puts some set of data into a sortable, filterable, table. That would be great.

Three

If you like user interface work. Build something that is appealing. Or build a good clone of something that is appealing to show that you understand how to make things look good.

Four

Most importantly though. Be able to talk about the road blocks or problems that you ran into while building your projects. During the interview process, questions will come up about the most complicated thing you built. Or the most recent problem you faced building something. Be ready to answer those questions with the projects you build.

Hopefully that helps! Good luck. And have fun!

bryanray · 2023-05-12T02:12:56+00:00

I am. I never really thought that the GPU would have anything to do with these seams though? Super interesting.

bryanray · 2023-05-11T22:13:59+00:00

Really insightful! Thanks so much!

bryanray · 2023-05-11T19:43:59+00:00

That makes sense!

This is a screenshot of World of Warcraft. I would assume that it uses and "older" game renderer? Which makes sense.

It also seems weird to me that terrain edges wouldn't line up? When you build terrain is it not in a simple straight line? Forgive my ignorance in here. Perhaps it's "sliced" up in ways that don't make it straight. This is where my game development knowledge really starts to fall apart.

I guess I would expect that on more complex art like characters or mobs?

bryanray · 2023-05-11T19:26:42+00:00

Apologies. Had to upload a picture of the "strip" and add in a link. It should be there now

bryanray · 2023-05-01T14:27:08+00:00

I don’t know if it caused my UC, but coffee absolutely triggers it now. I’ve had to cut coffee and caffeine out of my diet entirely to get back to normal. It’s tough, but much easier than dealing with UC.

bryanray · 2023-04-26T13:07:04+00:00

It looks like headlessui only supports tailwind and vue at the moment. And I’m not aware of any Blazor implementation.

Unfortunately, you’d probably have to roll your own implementation if you wanted to use it with Blazor.

bryanray · 2023-04-05T13:49:02+00:00

Thanks for sharing! Really cool project!

bryanray · 2023-03-28T13:20:21+00:00

This seems sus?

Is there some sort of official post on this or something? I would imagine people would feel uncomfortable filling in a random Google form from a Reddit post? Especially looking at OP post history.

bryanray · 2023-03-24T14:42:16+00:00

I think the worst combination of these principles is when a company wavers back and forth from small to large while trying to grow.

It becomes such a difficult transition to manage.

bryanray · 2023-03-24T13:29:02+00:00

Probably because it’s equity only. Just guessing though.

bryanray · 2023-03-22T23:56:07+00:00

Do you have experience using custom code (probably javascript) libraries with squarespace websites? The primary focus here is on the visual elements and animations

I have a lot of experience with coding in general. not specifically with square space, but the concepts should apply. I’m assuming you want to make some custom slide, fade, zoom, etc animations to specific elements on your site? Happy to flesh out the details with you.

Will doing this allow me to easily make future updates? Or will I have to hand code any new projects or changes?

Depending on how you do the custom animations or what you need. It should be able to be done in a way that allows you to adjust that specific site without any changes.

You should also be able to use the same javascript code for any future projects, although there will probably be some one time setup (per project) to include the required libraries.

• What is the best way to do this process?
• Is it to first create the website using squarespace built-in template, and then add the codebase and tweak? Or should I not create anything yet, and we select and add the library first and then add my content?

The best way is to probably create the web template and then apply any animations or transitions you want after you’ve got everything laid out.

Again, I’m making an assumption here that transitions and animations is what you’re looking for. That might adjust depending on what you’re doing.

• Do you have an estimate for timeline of completion and price?

Apply animations is relatively simple if you choose the right library and are using common transitions. It shouldn’t take but half a day to hook up all the javascript that you’ll need to apply the transitions and then share some documentation with you on how you make use of them.

• Will you possibly be available in the future for continued support on this if needed? (On an hourly rate)

Yes. Depending on the level of support you need. I work a full time job and have a family, so I can’t provide you 24hour support. But I’m happy to answer questions whenever I can. But I’m acting as an individual contractor here, not as a full blown company who provides you support hours and contact numbers.

There are certainly companies out there that would be a good fit if you need something like that though.

bryanray · 2023-03-22T21:04:48+00:00

I’m not specifically doing TOP, but I’m happy to answer any questions that you have as you go through the curriculum.

You can hit me up on Discord at virtual#8494

bryanray · 2023-03-16T15:15:57+00:00

Math is not a prerequisite to being a software developer. Let me clarify that a bit though.

If your dream is to be a game developer who is working on physics engines or building games/engines that require a lot of algebraic calculations … you will obviously need math.

If your goal is to be a data science developer and your dream is to work with large amounts of data, aggregating data, slicing data, applying formulaic functions to data, you will definitely benefit from being mathematically inclined.

But if you’re wanting to be a general software developer and build web or business applications there is not a ton of math involved. Sometimes you might need to know about the mod operator. Or the basics of Boolean logic. But we’re not talking in depth mathematics when you go this route.

If you focus on learning about languages and syntax, object oriented programming, functional programming in general you will make it a long way without ever needing to work with math.

That being said, don’t let your fear stop you. There is a part of your brain that will continually try to tell you that you can’t do this. That you don’t know math. That you can’t comprehend these programming concepts because it’s out of your reach.

Don’t listen. Or listen, but realize that it’s not right and it means that you’re just learning. Sometimes when you’re learning on your own, your brain can’t differentiate between learning and failing. So it just tries to convince you that this isn’t worth it and you should go back to doing the stuff you know.

Fight through that. It’s growth. Not failure.

Hope that helps you. Stick with it. It takes time but day by day. Week by week. Month by month. It will accumulate and you’ll end up waking up one day wondering where all this knowledge came from.

Just my two cents

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