Links
Find below a list of curated links for software engineers on various subject like DevOps, GameDev or others.
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Description
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Terragrunt is a Terraform wrapper helping you to reuse terraform code very easily with different input. Instead of laying down multiple resources in files. It makes infrastructure migration or duplication very easy.
Here is an online tool for busy developers to create a website template, but not just HTML/CSS, it comes with full usage of Bootstrap, Bulma, Material, etc up to your choice.
WebDev
JetBrains released a new IDE aimed at collaborative work. Pretty interesting.
ProgrammingSoftwareEngineering
A CDN for images with a lot of tools to rework images on the fly like resizing, shape, colors, etc.
A great collection of full-stack resources for programmers maintained by Charles-Axel Dein, ex Engineering Manager at Uber Europe.
SoftwareEngineeringProgramming
Content Security Policies are not easy and the literature on the subject is not big. Here is another great article discussing how to implement CSP and Trusted Types debugging in Chrome DevTools.
WebDevDevOpsCyberSecurity
A straightforward library for running functions after a delay by creating timers in Unity3D.
UnityGameDev
A nice wet Shader Graph tutorial for Unity on Youtube.
UnityGameDevShader
A neat modern feature from HTML to lazy load images, but not yet available on few browsers like Safari.
WebDev
A useful node tool to have inline environment variable defined and which work on any OS.
WebDevDevOps
If you want to verify your connectivity with one of the AWS datacenter you can use this website. And it's opensource!
DevOps
Nx is a smart and extensible build framework compatible with most JS framework. It promotes monorepos philisophy and thanks to that can manage the dependency graph within your projects.
WebDevDevOps
If you are looking implementing CSP on your website and you are using Nginx, here is an article you probably want to read to understand how to create nonce.
DevOpsCyberSecurity
High-performance load testing tool, written in Golang for HTTP and HTTP/2.
DevOpsCyberSecurity
How to run your first automated tests using Unity Test Framework & AltUnity Tester.
UnityGameDevQA
An interesting GDC talk on the streaming technologies they used to build the game 'Ghost of Tsushima'.
GameDev
An article on procedural rounded boxes made in typescript and WebGL.
GameDevGraphics
A seamless multiplayer framework for Unity. Not sure how good it is, but interestingly Shopify used it recently to make a party game for their employee to do team building remotely.
UnityGameDev
Here is an article of reflections on the game difficulty pacing in Puzzledorf that I found interesting.
GameDev
Deno is a node.js alternative. It is a modern runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly.
They also offer a service called Deno Deploy which basically deploy and run at the edge. Instead of having a central server located in the world that will execute your code, with Deno Deploy you run the code directly close to the users meaning less latency and broader audience reachable!
WebDevSoftwareEngineering
Nextcloud is a self-hosted Dropbox alternative. It is pretty configurable and flexible.
ITDevOps
A sort of a book walking you through the best practices for using a command line shell in very details.
SoftwareEngineeringDevOps
This service proposes tunnel to open your website hosted locally to the internet. Can become handy for demoing or testing.
DevOpsWebDev
If you want to keep track easily on the time you spent on different coding projects, wakatime is interesting and very easy to setup.
SoftwareEngineeringProgrammingAnalytics
Here is a tool that does automatic SQL Query Optimization using AI. That may be worth it, if you have a lot of SQL queries in your code.
SoftwareEngineeringAIDevOps
The Twelve-Factor App is an interesting document listing good principles to build software as a service. TBH a must read.
SoftwareEngineeringDevOpsWebDev
GitHub offers a CI/CD pipeline for free called GitHub Actions. Tightly integrated with GitHub itself. And you can even self-host the runners. Victoria Lo gives us a good intro to their product in her article below.
DevOpsCICD
Another noise tutorial from Catlike Coding. Very detailed as usual and it's jobified!
UnityGameDev
You may remember Structurizr I shared before which is a great tool to make C4Model diagrams with a simple descriptive language. Here we have the same thing for sequence charts. This is just awesome!
SoftwareEngineeringProgramming
"Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows. It's pretty fast, so a lot better than the Windows Search ^^
MiscIT
You can convert JSON to Swift, C#, TypeScript, Objective-C, Go, Java, C++ and more with that tool.
SoftwareEngineeringProgrammingWebDevDevOps
Profile Picture Maker let's you create an profile pic from any photo with a lot of different templates you pick from. Pretty easy to use.
Misc
This app simplifies the creation of a good README file with a premade template.
SoftwareEngineering
This website helps you see the preview of your website when your link is shared in Facebook, Twitter, and others.
WebDev
Here is a very convenient color palette generator to customize any theme you are working on. You can press spacebar to generate palette at will and lock colors one by one, until you are satisfied with all the colors!
WebDevUI/UX
Here is a company that provides NPCs AI on demand basically. So if you need bots in your game, either for helping development, or to entertain your players when you don't have enough people to match them, you can think of using WildMeta
GameDev
How to do pathfinding on a hexagonal grid? Here is an interesting article answering that question.
GameDev
Save Data with BinaryWriter and BinaryReader – Bronson Zgeb
UnityGameDev
mailcow.email | The mailserver suite with the 'moo' – 🐮 + 🐋 = 💕
Minko Gechev on Twitter: "Tip: @ChromeDevTools provides utilities you can use to get insights at development time. Few of my favorites: ‣ copy - puts a string into the clipboard ‣ console.table - pretty prints an array of objects into a sortable table ‣ $$(...) - get all elements matching a selector https://t.co/k0zWN9UUUb" / Twitter
AngularWebDev
Royalty free Sound Effects for your game dev
To optimize your CI pipeline and others, here is a tip: use npm ci instead of npm install
WebDevDevOps
Migrating from Protractor to Cypress | Nx Angular documentation
WebDev
A tutorial on using vertex colors to get huge perf optimization on mobile
UnityGameDev
One of the most important page in the documentation of Unity about graphics optimization.
UnityGameDev
An opensource interactive fictions engine with visual tool to do non-linear story writing.
GameDev