Thoughts, stories, musings, and meanderings.
Around the beginning of the year, Nazly Ahmed tweeted a photo (or rather, two photos) which made me pause. I wondered what the story behind that image was but then forgot about it for the time being.
Yesterday, Nazly tweeted about a story that Milani B. had written based on his photograph. The story is in Sinhala so some of you might not be able to read it — and that’s a pity since it’s a good old Sri Lankan horror story, like the ones I used to read as a child.…
iOS 14 is here upon us — or at least, for those of us who use (and develop for) Apple devices. And with its arrival, it brings along a host of changes to how things are coded for iOS devices.
One thing that appears to have changed that I didn’t notice at all at first was the new way to handle list views.…
As you might have realized if you read my post on the Oculus Quest 2 and Business Apps, I’m very excited about the possibilities presented by the Oculus Quest 2 😃
So, I was just waiting for my new Oculus Quest 2 to arrive so that I could try it out. It arrived yesterday, but due to how deliveries are handled at our apartment building, I could not get my hands on it till early in the morning today.…
The image above is of a message that I received just a little while ago on LinkedIn.
Now some of you are immediately, going “scam” 😃 If you are in that category, read no more — this post is probably of no use to you. If you thought, even for a fraction of a second, that the message might be legit, then read on … I have a bridge to sell you 😀
Kidding … I don’t sell bridges, I sell specialized services 😀
All kidding aside, this kind of message should be setting off all kinds of alarms if you received it.…
Recently, I came across a job posting which said something along the lines of: remote part-time work, $1K to $2K, located in Europe or America, collaborative work etc.
Being curious, I responded expecting some sort of a part time development opportunity. But what I heard back was a little bit different 😃
Basically, I was told that the person who posted the job — let’s call them OP — was representing a group of people who had been finding remote development work on places like Upwork, but that they were being discriminated against by potential employers because of their geographic location.…
Last night I had a dream.
I dreamt of a future — or present — where everybody competed in sports events. Everybody belonged to a team. They didn’t train as a team though. People trained with members of other teams, but competed in their own teams — even against the people they’d trained with.
In this reality, relationships between members of two different teams was frowned upon.…
When you are planning a new project, you might be tempted to get a leg up on the long road ahead by downloading and/or purchasing the source code to an app which does some of what you want and then modify it to get you the rest of the way.
That is a perfectly fine (and smart) way to go.
However, if you get your source code from an unknown source, you do have to beware of hidden traps.…
Sometimes, working with Unity can be a bit trying 😀
I was doing a fair amount of house-cleaning on a project where I was moving scripts around, changing file names etc. At some point, I apparently touched a file which was associated with game data.
Just to set the background, you can have objects in Unity which are sub-classes of ScriptableObject.…
I have been a very satisfied user of the first generation Oculus Quest for the past year or so.
So, when I heard that Facebook would be announcing the Oculus Quest 2 at their Facebook Connect event, I wanted to watch — that was a bit of a busy week what with Apple announcing their new iPads and watches the previous day and so on.…
I’ve had to put my game development adventures on hold for a bit since Apple released iOS 14 this week and I had to update my existing apps for the new OS version. I do this (more or less) every year so that the apps that I have on the App Store continue to support the latest functionality and takes advantage of any bug fixes in the new release.…