The world of 3D very much craves automation and you could deliver it. — My fascination with 3D art is old, spanning back a decade to the days when I would watch Andrew Price after school and got excited when a guy called Jonathan Williamson posted a new video. I would check the URLs manually on my iPod Touch when I wasn’t busy playing…

Because the art of code allows us to code the art — Most programmers are probably unaware of how large a market waits for them in the world of 3D art. We usually think of art as something more creative rather than technical, and it is easy to overlook the huge potential for automation, scripts, addons and procedural materials. In my case…

Even though Python lives rent-free in my heart — Python has a special place in my heart simply because I wrote my first useful programs in it, which made me learn more than my professional software apprenticeship did at the time. However, as of late, I have started using C# exclusively, and I want to write about why today. C# Has Become Just As Simple To Set Up …

And make your own life better, as much as everyone’s who comes after you — It’s Monday morning, and you are sitting back down at your desk. Up in front of you is the spaghetti code for the system you didn’t build, but are asked to maintain from now on. The original code was written by the trainee, under half-guidance from the guy who planned…

I save hours thanks to these tools, time that could easily be wasted. — The tools I will mention in this post are pretty specific to my world of tech, productivity, and coding — but they are so important that I would not want to live without either of them. ReSharper ReSharper is one of these tools that are too expensive to not buy them…

For fun and giggles, and hours of wasted time — Programming is hard to learn and harder to teach, apparently. I’ve been in this industry for a decade now, and I have experienced some great examples of horrible explaining — so let’s just have some fun with a “please don’t do this” kind of post. Repeat what you just said Ideally, you start off with…

And it only got to stay after I learned of a hidden config option — Welcome! Today’s post has a double intent: To show you a great productivity plugin you may not be aware of, and to talk about the importance of giving your (power) users the option to configure your product. The tool I am talking about is called TabNine, and it’s amazing. If…

Or how I met my cute little friend who folds — I just realized today that it’s more than a year since I bought my Dell XPS laptop — and I love using it. I have actually become attached to it, there is a certain joy about having tech that just works, and works well. If I had to describe what…

In simple steps that anyone can implement. — It seems we always mention this whole "10x programmer" thing in passing - but as so often, the biggest impact happens in the middle. So today, I want to talk about a few simple steps and habits that any programmer can implement to increase the value of our work …