Chris Pearce chrisui

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

Algebraic Effects in JavaScript part 4 - Implementing Algebraic Effects and Handlers

This is the final part of a series about Algebraic Effects and Handlers.

Part 1 : continuations and control transfer
Part 2 : Capturing continuations with Generators
Part 3 : Delimited continuations
Part 4 : Implementing Algebraic Effects and handlers

So we've come to the core topic. The reality is that we've already covered most of it in the previous parts. Especially, in the third part, where we saw delimited continuations at work.

Moved to Shopify/graphql-design-tutorial

You’ll hear this talk at Elm Europe in June 2017. Massive thanks to @chrisui, @stealthpig, @zsoobhan, @spryle, @dumbNickname and everyone else who helped shape this proposal. You guys are awesome!

how frontend microservices
help us stay flexible

Choosing the right technologies when starting a project is super important. It’s almost impossible to change the stack later on. Betting on Elm is therefore a bit risky. Right?

Not anymore! Now we can use frontend microservices to pick the right tool for every job!

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at the Reactive 2016 conference.

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Get Flow

Type checking JavaScript with Flow

JavaScript is a dynamic language, and there's nothing wrong with that. It allows quick iteration and lowers barriers. However, sometimes some compile-time type checking is just what you need to keep your code in line and give yourself the confidence to build bigger and faster. Flow gives the best of both worlds. You can have normal JavaScript but you can also add types where they're helpful, and it adds zero cost at runtime. In this talk I'll show Flow as it applies to a Redux & React codebase.

Requirements

~> brew install ffmpeg
~> brew install imagemagick

Usage

Pattern Matching

This is a strawman proposal for adding pattern matching to ECMAScript. Pattern matching is useful for matching a value to some structure in a similar way to destructuring. The primary difference between destructuring and pattern matching are the use cases involved - destructuring is useful for binding pieces out of larger structures whereas pattern matching is useful for mapping a value's structure to data or a set of behaviors. In practice this means that destructuring tends to allow many shapes of data and will do its best to bind something out of it, whereas pattern matching will tend to be more conservative.

Additionally, the power of pattern matching is increased substantially when values are allowed to participate in the pattern matching semantics as a matcher as well as a matchee. This proposal includes the notion of a pattern matching protocol - a symbol method that can be implemented by objects that enables developers to use those values in pattern matching. A common scenario w

What forces layout / reflow

All of the below properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout*. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.

Generally, all APIs that synchronously provide layout metrics will trigger forced reflow / layout. Read on for additional cases and details.

Element APIs

Getting box metrics

elem.offsetLeft, elem.offsetTop, elem.offsetWidth, elem.offsetHeight, elem.offsetParent

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	"""
	Usage:
	- Save this script somewhere on your path (e.g. `vi /usr/local/bin/aws-console && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/aws-console`)
	- Make AWS credentials available in one of the usual places where boto3 can find them (~/.aws/credentials, env var, etc.)
	- Excute the script: `aws-console --profile myprofile`
	- :tada: Your browser opens and you are signed in into the AWS console
	"""

	import React from 'react';

	const toPromise = (load) => (new Promise((resolve) => (
	load(resolve)
	)));

	class LazilyLoad extends React.Component {

	constructor() {
	super(...arguments);