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Game Dev - Unity

Game Dev - Unity

After spending years trying to build mini D&D games using JS, Elm, Elixir, etc... I decided to give a shot to Unity. Dungeon generator I decided to jump right away into Unity and build a procedural dungeon generator from scratch. As expected the result was not great (pretty ugly

Encounters v0.3.0 (Alpha) - Dynamic lightning is coming

Encounters v0.3.0 (Alpha) - Dynamic lightning is coming

It's been few weeks since my last update. I have been quite busy working on a lot of interesting stuff. Some related to this project, some a bit less. Here is a preview of the Dynamic lightning I have been working on. It's not live for now since it needs

From Kubernetes to Gitlab-ci in less than 10min

From Kubernetes to Gitlab-ci in less than 10min

I have been playing a lot with Kubernetes lately, from creating a cluster from scratch on bare metal, setting up a ELK stack, Prometheus metrics to setting up a CI/CD using Gitlab CI. I found the last one so easy that I made a video for it. I have

Encounters v0.2.0 (Alpha)

Encounters v0.2.0 (Alpha)

Ok now it's getting a bit more serious. We can now create, save and restore maps in the editor: This tool is available here: https://encounters.4sh.dev [https://encounters.4sh.dev/] Edit: Added support for video maps:

Encounters v0.1.1 (Alpha)

Encounters v0.1.1 (Alpha)

I'm still playing with canvas and I plugged the dungeon generator I worked on a year ago. This is the result: This tool is available here: https://encounters.4sh.dev [https://encounters.4sh.dev/]

Docker: Multi-stage & Caching

Multi-stage In the beginning When we first started to build docker images, long before the multi-stage syntax, our projects would look something like this: We would have a base docker image containing the dependencies shared by the development and the production image, then one file for each final image. The

D&D Toolbox

The context With the COVID-19 and the shelter in place, there is not much opportunities to play D&D face to face with friends. Some groups decided to go to platforms like Roll20 or Fantasy Ground. While I love those apps they are lacking something in my opinion: an integration

D&D Beyond DM Screen

D&D Beyond DM Screen

Few months ago, I worked on a Chrome extension to make my life easier when DMing D&D using DnD Beyond characters. D&D Beyond Campaign DM ScreenDM Screen Extension for D&D Beyond. This extension extends the campaign page to turn it into a DM screen.Chrome Web Store

Minecraft 1.15 power by docker

Few years ago I created a docker image for me to play on Minecraft with friends. I have been updating this image from time to time but basically it's almost always compatible with the new version since it's building the game server from the sources. The project can be found

One step in the Progressives Web Apps

Few months ago, a friend of mine @florpeliere [https://twitter.com/florpeliere] started to work on progressives web apps. First, I was intrigued, but not that much. Then he gave us a talk about them, and I started to realise the potential of this concept. Well, it is not a

Docker's 3rd birthday celebration

Docker's 3rd birthday celebration

The event This week is the Docker's 3rd birthday. Around the world, a lot of meetups were organized with the same program. For this event the Docker team has created a specific presentation with a fun training on how to build, ship and run a distributed application with ease. The

Hands-on Docker in Paris the 22nd of March (Docker's 3rd birthday)

Hands-on Docker in Paris the 22nd of March (Docker's 3rd birthday)

> Edit: Due to the Docker Meetup in Paris, the Hands-on Docker is rescheduled to the 22nd of March instead of the 24th of March. Hi! Few months ago, I gave a talk about Docker (the article [http://blog.sylvaincau.com/talk-about-docker]). During this talk I saw that a lot of

Meetup Analogy

Yesterday I was in a Meetup, I was listening a guy explain us how this tech was very helpful for his company; the way it changed all their way of thinking... Suddenly, I felt like I was in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. And I start to imagine this kind of

Blogular

During the last past year, I trained a lot of people on AngularJS in my company. Lately, I was thinking that our repository was old and not really good looking. Then, I had an idea, what if I wanted to train people outside of my company, like in university for

EmberJS

Last week, I gave a talk about EmberJS. As a long time user of AngularJS 1.x some people were expecting a comparaison between these two frameworks. My point was more about what is Ember, what is the good and the bad with this framework. I was hoping to give

ngMockStorage

Hi guys, I just released a first version of a new library for AngularJS. The idea is to have a mock in your AngularJS application, but not deployed on the back side. With this kind of mock you are able to deploy an offline sandbox version of your website. The

Talk about Docker

Talk about Docker

Few weeks ago, as every month, my company has organised their Tech evening. This time, it was about Docker. As a long time user of virtualization and for the past year of Docker, I offered to talk about how to integrate docker in our everyday work. As a front end

Hi!

I have been pondering for a long time on the idea of creating a blog, but I was not quite sure on the subject to write on. For the past 6 months I started to do a lot, from talks about Docker to creating AngularJS training. Some of these were