Many of you have been wondering how the heck I manage to code outdoors for many hours without losing my eyes. Beware of the glare! Truth is, you will never get the same result as being in an indoor office with all the windows shut. Then again, I’d much rather be outdoor and cope with less-than-perfect LCD experience than to be entrenched in a cubicle! So it’s a trade-off. There are however a few things you can do to improve the outdoor […]
So you have setup your own mail server on Digital Ocean. Everything works great, but for some reason all of your outgoing mail to Gmail’s addresses ends up in the Spam folder. What to do? 1. Check your SPF record SPF is a validation system to detect spoofing and needs to be setup in your DNS records. Fire up the DNS console of your droplet and make sure that you have it setup properly by adding a “TXT” record with the following […]
Back at the beginning of May, while my wife and I were getting ready for our upcoming trip around the United States, I picked up the following challenge: Build a Flappy Bird like game. No commercial software allowed. Three weeks of time. Bring it to as many platforms as possible. Sound and textures had to be made from scratch. After some research, I ended up choosing the following open source tools to achieve my goal: Libgdx: a great multiplatform game […]
If you’ve seen the pictures that I’ve been posting, you might be wondering about what kind of camera equipment I’ve been using. Today I’m proud to show you the powerful and expensive equipment that I’ve been using to take the shots of my travels. Canon PowerShot Digital ELPH SD750 – Around 50$ on eBay Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to spend hundreds of dollars for a good camera, but that is not part of the living small philosophy. Plus I love to push the limits […]
Today marks the first month my wife and I have been on the road, living in our popup camper and enjoying the small things in life like never before. It’s been full of great experiences, places and people. It wasn’t always all perfect, of course, we went through some bad thunderstorms, one bear encounter, hot weather, a mild back strain injury, losing track of a hiking trail and ending in a swamp. But we managed to get out of the bad situations, making the […]
1. Plan for spotty Internet. As software developers, Internet is our second most important resource (electricity is the first). Mobile networks and WiFi hotspots are not always available and you should plan to be “off the grid” for prolonged periods of time. This brings up the next few tips. 2. Use a source control system that does not rely on connectivity. Git seems to work fairly well for me. I keep a local repository on an external hard drive and […]