Scott Talks About Things and Stuff

Posts

2024

• Rendering Objects in Unity That Don't Exist

  Recently I was exploring simple ways of animating entities in canvas and happened upon this trick with the jQuery animate method.

  June 27, 2024 • 3 minutes

• Unity UI Toolkit Custom Elements

  Learn how to create custom Unity UI Toolkit Elements to use withing your application.

  June 23, 2024 • 3 minutes

• You (Probably) Don't Need That Auth Library

  I wondered this many years ago, when trying to setup Google Login with OAuth, and what I learned surprised me.

  June 16, 2024 • 3 minutes

• Using React and Web Components Together

  Using React and Web Components in the same codebase

  June 7, 2024 • 3 minutes

• Unity UI Toolkit at Runtime

  Dynamically populating data at runtime using Unity UI Toolkit

  May 29, 2024 • 5 minutes

• Web Components vs. the World

  Comparing Web Components to React, Solid.js, Vue.js, Svelte and Angular.

  May 17, 2024 • 1 minute

• Let's Make Web Components Happen

  Stop trying to make Web Components happen! It's not going to happen.

  May 16, 2024 • 3 minutes

• Deploy a Static Site to Cloudflare in Seconds

  I used Amazon S3 for years, but Cloudflare Pages won me over instantly for hosting simple static sites.

  May 7, 2024 • 2 minutes

• Yet Another Static Site Generator

  There are hundreds of static site generators. Why not one more?

  May 7, 2024 • 2 minutes

• The Simple Game That Took Me 6 Years to Release

  I created a playable prototype for a simple game in 2018, but it took until 2024 to release it.

  April 29, 2024 • 4 minutes

2023

• Scott Makes a Game Engine

  It happened. It finally happened. I'm building my own custom game engine.

  October 27, 2023 • 2 minutes

2019

• Creating Custom Packages for Unity 2018.3

  Isolate key components of your Unity game or app using Unity's new package manager.

  February 1, 2019 • 4 minutes

2018

• Building an AR App Without Code

  Build an AR experience for iOS or Android in Unity without writing a line of code.

  December 30, 2018 • 5 minutes

• Your Build Process Is Too Damn Slow

  Load AssetBundles from a local server to speed up mobile development testing.

  August 16, 2018 • 4 minutes

• CandyCoded First Public Beta!

  I'm super excited to announce the first public beta of my Unity library CandyCoded!

  March 25, 2018 • 3 minutes

2017

• The Impossible Triangle

  The impossible triangle and the art of Brazilian artist Romero Britto are both inspirations of mine and I wanted to create something that not only captured the essence of these two inspirations but presented them in my own way.

  February 28, 2017 • 2 minutes

2016

• Animating Within Canvas Using jQuery

  Recently I was exploring simple ways of animating entities in canvas and happened upon this trick with the jQuery animate method.

  December 31, 2016 • 1 minute

2014

• From Zero to Open Source

  I used to be well known amongst my peers as the developer who built 80% of something and then gave up or lost interest.

  June 2, 2014 • 2 minutes

Projects

You can see all projects on my portfolio.

Active Projects

• Flip Jacks

  🃏 A physics based poker game in AR

• rhythm-game-utilities

  A collection of utilities for creating rhythm games.

• Handcrank Engine

  An open source game engine built in C++ with SDL.

Open Source Projects

• onlybuild

  A zero-config cli for building static websites.

• generate-local-changelog

  📘 Generate a CHANGELOG for your project using only local git history.

• doxdox

  📘 Documentation, simple.

• CandyCoded

  🍭 Custom Unity Components that are delightful