Joseph Maurer

Joseph Maurer @mwrpwr

About: ~ Game Development Software Engineer ~ MBA @ University of Nevada, Reno ~ Oregon Tech Alum

Location:
Reno, Nevada
Joined:
Mar 21, 2021

Joseph Maurer
articles - 30 total

What I Learned Solving A Leetcode Problem A Day For 45 Straight Days

Being an engineer there are so many problems that I have to solve every day that you get into the...

Learn More 3 0Jun 19 '21

WWDC 2021: State of the Union Recap

Here’s a quick recap of Apple’s State of the Union at WWDC (World Wide Developer Confrence 2021)....

Learn More 2 0Jun 13 '21

Working with Sprite Sheets in Unity

Sprites are a vital part of working on a game in Unity. Part of that is how do you go about slicing a...

Learn More 4 0Jun 11 '21

Microsoft Build 2021: Build Cloud-native Applications That Run Anywhere

ICYMI (In case you missed it); last week was Microsoft’s Build event! The yearly event is a chance fo...

Learn More 2 0Jun 7 '21

OOP: Object Oriented Programming

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that is the cornerstone of modern softwar...

Learn More 10 0Jun 4 '21

Exploring Shader Graph in Unity

There is something that you realize really quickly when you start programming games, and it’s that ma...

Learn More 1 0Jun 1 '21

Getting a URL Parameter in Javascript

When programming in Javascript there are times when you might want to know if there were any paramete...

Learn More 33 0May 31 '21

Exploring DEV.to API

You often forget that APIs exist for most of the platforms you use. While some companies lock down th...

Learn More 48 8May 28 '21

Unity's C# Job System

There are times when you need to take full advantage of every ounce of performance possible to make y...

Learn More 7 0May 25 '21

Tabs Versus Spaces: Defining a Coding Standard

Writing clean and maintainable code is pivotal to any production project. And yet even the most funct...

Learn More 1 0May 24 '21

Best IDEs

There are tools to every trade and writing code is no different. I’ve posted in the past about the be...

Learn More 10 11May 23 '21

Adding Snapchat’s Bitmoji to your website

Emoji’s and personalized avatars have become the new normal in messaging and social media platforms....

Learn More 13 0May 22 '21

Observer Pattern

One of my most commonly used design patterns is the Observer Pattern and for good reasons. At its cor...

Learn More 30 0May 15 '21

Why Regular Expressions Are Super Powerful, But A Terrible Coding Decision

We’ve all been there. You have a string input and need a fast and efficient way to parse something im...

Learn More 22 9May 14 '21

Learning Kotlin 2️⃣: Lambda Function

Welcome to part 2 of the learning Kotlin series! If you haven’t yet, check out my first post that goe...

Learn More 2 0Apr 27 '21

Best Cloud Migration Tools

I recently went through an exercise of comparing and contrasting the cost/benefits of migrating an on...

Learn More 8 1Apr 26 '21

Open Source Tailwind CSS Components

I wrote earlier about the comparison between tailwind and bootstrap and in it I talked about how Tail...

Learn More 15 0Apr 22 '21

Tech Talk ~ What technologies do you see impacting Real Estate?

Real estate has always been an industry dependent in technology and over the past couple of years the...

Learn More 2 1Apr 22 '21

Learning Kotlin: Programming with Visual Studio Code

Kotlin has been a pretty steadily growing programming language over the last few years and yet I have...

Learn More 52 11Apr 20 '21

Making a game in Bevy: An open-source 2D and 3D engine built on Rust

I earlier wrote about all of the promises that Unity’s Project Tiny brings to the table with the abil...

Learn More 7 0Apr 16 '21

Machine Learning on a Raspberry Pi with Python or Node.js

Source: Edge Impulse Typically, when you think about having to train a model for machine learning you...

Learn More 16 0Apr 15 '21

Framework Showdown: Tailwind vs Bootstrap

Source: Zoltan Szogyenyi Exploring a new css framework is like Christmas for anyone who loves to tink...

Learn More 4 5Apr 13 '21

The Future of Voice Assistants and AI

The introduction of voice assistants and AI into our daily lives has added conveniences to our routin...

Learn More 2 0Apr 9 '21

Web Security: Hashing, Salting, and Encryption

As a web developer or engineer it is imperative that your users’ information is safe and secure in a...

Learn More 49 0Apr 8 '21

Make your own Smarthome Server with NodeJS

The smart home product segment is more competitive than ever with lots of companies competing to be t...

Learn More 33 1Apr 6 '21

Tool Check: Reconcile Your Differences

A critical part of any coding workflow is being able to accurately identify the changes you’re makin...

Learn More 2 1Apr 2 '21

Downfall of the Human Machine Interface

Source: Unreal Engine There was a time when human interaction with computers was relatively basic....

Learn More 1 0Apr 1 '21

Continuous Integration is Not Optional

Stop Wasting Time On The Boring Stuff With any project, there are the boring maintenance tasks that...

Learn More 9 0Mar 30 '21

How I Made My Website Load 18% Faster

15 minutes could save you 15% or more on performance Source: Arnold Francisca Far too often, perform...

Learn More 107 0Mar 26 '21

Keeping up with Software

While lifelong learning is something that we all strive for, it is often put on the back burner as so...

Learn More 1 0Mar 22 '21