Aug 13Niching Up by Chris Dreyer — A SummaryHow to Niche-up Niching up doesn’t work with all businesses. It may or may not be the strategy for you. Take a broad view, explore all avenues and then niche up. Learn from experts or find a mentor. Focus and spend 10,000 hours on only one skill. As soon as you find success…Self Help2 min readSelf Help2 min read
Jul 3The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Care — A SummaryThat’s not what the title of the book by Mark Manson exactly is, but I rather not use curse words. What follows is a condensation of all the important points made in the book. I primarily want to document them so I can revisit them from time to time to…Self Improvement7 min readSelf Improvement7 min read
Apr 1Moving to the United States, 101In August 2020, I moved to the United States of America. This is a living document of everything I had to deal with and all the advice I have received from other expats. Since I talk a bit about personal finance and retirement account types, I wanted to be clear…Expat8 min readExpat8 min read
Mar 24How to Manage a Remote TeamLessons learnt from GitLab’s “How to Manage a Remote Team” online course. Why Remote Work? It is possible to hire and work from all over the world. Workers gain the ability to work flexible hours. And flexibility is possible in times of crisis. Remote Working Styles Hybrid-Remote The workers who alternate between home and office. Digital Nomad Workers who…Remote Working4 min readRemote Working4 min read
Dec 5, 2022Creating a “Choose your own Adventure” Story with GPT-3A while ago, I came across AI Dungeon, a choose-your-own-story (CYOS) game that used AI to create a story. The user can say, do, see or add to the story. It seemed revolutionary. Sure, the AI did funny stuff that generative AIs usually do like going off context or abruptly…Gpt 35 min readGpt 35 min read
Aug 22, 2022Godot Order of Execution of Event FunctionsThe order of execution of event functions is as follows: _Init() _Notification() _EnterTree() _Ready() _Input() _UnhandledInput() _UnhandledKeyInput() _PhysicsProcess() _Draw() _Process() _ExitTree() If you're wondering why the above functions are capitalized in that manner, that’s how they appear when using C#. The ones in italics are those which I was not…Godot1 min readGodot1 min read
Aug 3, 2022Analyzing an Ever-Balancing Pay2Win GameIt was 2007, and the server of my favourite Role Playing space sim had been taken down. The server host couldn’t keep working a second job to bear the hardware, internet and electricity costs. I needed a new world to explore, and some friends introduced me to World of Warcraft…Game Development5 min readGame Development5 min read
Jul 9, 2022Godot C# — Get the Reference of a Node and Attached ComponentsA beginner tutorial to get the reference of a Node in the scene. — It is a two-step process: get the NodePath of the Node and then cast the NodePath into the required type, which could be a Sprite, Node, RigidBody etc. Fetching the NodePath This can be done by creating an editor-exposed variable (Unity Engine equivalent of SerializeField) and dragging the Node to the exposed property…Godot Engine3 min readGodot Engine3 min read
Jul 4, 2022Bay Area to Yosemite in an EVQuick Charging Breakdown (TL;DR) Left Bay Area with 245 miles. Stopped to charge in Merced, CA and topped up to 250 miles. Reached Yosemite West (Airbnb) with 110 miles remaining. Slow charged (Level 1) on and off during the 2 day stay. Left Yosemite West with 160 miles. Charged (Level 2) in Rush Creek…Electric Vehicles4 min readElectric Vehicles4 min read
Dec 5, 2021Metaverse, Web 3.0 and GamesIn 2019, I gave a talk at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki and was surprised to see that they had reserved a complete track for blockchain games. It puzzled me that game developers were using a complicated decentralised storage solution to give the players an illusion of uniqueness and ownership. After…Metaverse8 min readMetaverse8 min read
