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A Portable git Server on an RPI 3B+

For the past three years I participated in the GDC TrainJam, an event where a bunch of crazy game developers get on a train in Chicago and make games in teams with folks they've never met before! There are no winners and losers, only friends and good memories of exotic places during the 52 hour train ride.

Oh, and we also make a few games with very little in the way of outside access. The train has no usable internet and for a large portion of the ride there is also no cellular service. When there is, it is awful and not at all usable for serious things like syncing frequently to an external repo service like GitHub. The first year I played it by ear and got a live repo running on a thumb drive that we handed around between teammates. There were only two programmers on the team and even then we found this to be a real slog! Very tedious and some times merging was a nightmare.

The next year, I endeavored to do better, and have been pretty successful. I decided to s

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

After a weekend of research, stress and pain I finally figure out how to install manjaro 17 and configure the nvidia/bumblebee drivers on my avell laptop

Here's my notebook specs:

$ inxi -MGCNA

Machine:   Device: laptop System: Avell High Performance product: 1513
           Mobo: N/A model: N/A v: 0.1 UEFI: American Megatrends v: N.1.02 date: 09/28/2016
Battery    BAT0: charge: 44.0 Wh 100.0% condition: 44.0/44.0 Wh (100%)

This list is provided as a guide for tools engineers of all skill levels looking for jobs in the game industry. It's meant as a guide to topics that should be pursued broadly in order to be well spoken in an interview. I doubt any hiring manager requires deep knowedge across every topic, but an ideal candidate would be somewhat knowledgable (aware of its existence if asked directly) with all topics here.

Each list of bullets increases in difficulty, so later bullets are more applicable to senior (or even director) level candidates.

Good luck.

@gorlak

Math

Why I think Immediate Mode GUI is way to go for GameDev tools

Prerequisites

Before you continue, if you don't know what IMGUI is don't bother reading this post, just ignore it, don't write anything in comments section, etc. If you're curious about IMGUI see bottom of this post, otherwise continue whatever you were doing, this post it's not for you. Thanks!

If you know what IMGUI is, for context read following presentations and blog posts:

Insomniac’s Web Tools Postmortem

	#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
	#include <windows.h>
	#include <d3d12.h>
	#include <dxgi1_2.h>
	#include <dxgi1_3.h>
	#include <dxgi1_4.h>
	#include <d3dcompiler.h>

	#define ARRAY_COUNT(Array) (sizeof(Array)/sizeof((Array)[0]))

	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
	#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
	#import <MetalKit/MetalKit.h>

	#include <imgui.h>
	#include <imgui_impl_metal.h>
	#include <imgui_impl_osx.h>

	@interface Renderer : NSObject<MTKViewDelegate>
	-(nonnull instancetype)initWithView:(nonnull MTKView *)view;

	---
	Language: Cpp
	AccessModifierOffset: -4
	AlignAfterOpenBracket: DontAlign
	AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
	AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
	AlignEscapedNewlines: Left
	AlignOperands: true
	AlignTrailingComments: true
	AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true