I’m publishing a three part series on Medium this week: Advice for Technical Public Speaking This content is based on the many technical talks I’ve given over the years, some do’s and don’t’s, a few things I wished I had known earlier, and even my personal philosophy.
Posts By: Thomas Hunter II
Go v1.10.3 vs Node v10.6.0 Microbenchmark
This post is making use of the same code from a previous benchmark: Go v1.9.1 vs Node v8.9.0 Microbenchmark. Check that out for some background and code samples if you’d like to try the same experiment. The applications are very simple. There is a global counter which increments with each incoming HTTP request. Both applications… Read more »
Recent Concerns about Node.js Security
There’s a growing risk of maliciously crafted npm modules wreaking havoc on our Node.js applications. I wrote a post over on my employers blog entitled The Dangers of Malicious Modules which explains a lot of these dangers. For example, did you know that a module which is loaded anywhere in your application’s dependency chain can… Read more »
Creating and Integrating a Node Lambda function with API Gateway
I’m writing a three part series about running Node.js on AWS Lambda. This series will cover the basics of Node and Lambda, then slowly introduce more advanced topics and code samples. Check it out over on the Intrinsic blog: Creating and Integrating a Node Lambda function with API Gateway. I work at Intrinsic, and we… Read more »
Developing Cobalt Dungeon using Phaser and Cordova
I recently released a mobile game called Cobalt Dungeon. This game is based on Phaser 2 and uses a fullscreen canvas and basically only touches the DOM during initialization. The application itself is wrapped in Cordova 8 and runs on iPhone and Android. It’s currently available for both platforms in their respective stores: Cobalt Dungeon… Read more »
Cobalt Dungeon for iOS is now available
Cobalt Dungeon is now available for iOS. Check out Cobalt Dungeon for iOS on the App Store! Of course, if you’ve been checking out by recent posts, you’d know that Cobalt Dungeon is a “Puzzle Roguelike” for mobile devices. You play by swiping to move your character and attack enemies. There are also two other… Read more »
Cobalt Dungeon for Android is now available
The game I’ve been working on for the last few months is now available on the Google Play Store: Install Cobalt Dungeon for Android (previously named Crossover) Please check it out! One of the biggest things you can do to support me is to install it and write a review! As more people play the… Read more »
Cobalt Dungeon Dev 02: Creating a Bitmap Font for Phaser
In this video we will take a font file (one with a TTF extension) and convert it into a bitmap font (XML and PNG files) for use with the Phaser game engine. Technically these font files can be used for other HTML5 game engines as well, though we’ll specifically look at code for loading it… Read more »
Cobalt Dungeon Dev 03: FL Studio Overview
This is my third video in a series of tutorials on game development. This one is specifically on FL Studio, which is the software I used to create the soundtrack for my game Cobalt Dungeon. It’s actually the first video I posted to Patreon to go live to the public, despite it being the third… Read more »
I’m working on a mobile game called Cobalt Dungeon
Cobalt Dungeon (previously Crossover) aims to be a “Mobile Roguelike Puzzle” game. For the last several years I’ve been trying to create Roguelike games with varying success. My most prolific attempts were with a series of incomplete games I created called Cobalt Calibur. There were actually three iterations of this game! Cobalt Calibur is a… Read more »