Brian Kirkpatrick articles - 40 total
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[23/52] Game Engine-ering: Railway Empire DLCs Ranked
We're going to introduce a new sub-series this week. If you haven't noticed in our previous "software...
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[22/52] Random Software Project: dev.to Frontend Conclusion
It's Over, Man! We've reached the final episode of our three-parter on what was once the...
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[21/52] Random Software Project: Solar Planets
What was once a one-parter intended to turn around over the weekend for a challenge submission has...
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[20/52] Random Software Projects: dev.to Frontend Challenge
We're going to use the current dev.to frontend challenge as a means to explore how to quickly put...
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[19/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Statics
Are you excited? I'm excited! Today we're going to dive into our first specific topical area in...
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[18/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Teh Maths
For a survey course, we try and look at just enough detail to "wet your whistle". But today we're...
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[17/52] CloudInit, DigitalOcean and Terraform (a minecraft adventure)
Software time today, baby! And it's something kind of fun. I swear. There's a fun project I recently...
![[16/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Units & Measurements](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fyakx17piym2aa2dhk8nc.png)
[16/52] Engineering Fundamentals: Units & Measurements
After the introductory knowledge graph and transport theorem, today is the first segment of our...
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[15/52] The Three Languages an Engineer Needs To Know (or maybe it's more)
We're going to revert to type, just a little bit, for today. I want to develop an idea that has been...
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[14/52] Fundamentals of Continuum Engineering
Definitely something a bit different today! We're going to look at the game "Railway Empire", and...
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[13/52] Fundamentals of Systems Engineering Models
We're going to continue focusing on key overall concepts in engineering. We're targeting a 2nd- or...
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[12/52] Fundamentals of Knowledge Engineering: Introductory Graphs
Today represents the first in a long-promised transition of the series away from purely software...
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[11/52] OpenGL is Still Decent, Actually
I know... I promised I'd be doing more engineering. We'll get there! But I was consuming some...
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[10/52] Spicy Math!!!
Fun tangent today--some spicy math! We're going to look at some fundamental problem-solving skills...
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[07/52] Automated Deployment with Terraform and DigitalOcean
We've got some code, and we want to share it. Throw it up on a VM! Who has time for containerization,...
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[08/52] CAHSR April Finance and Audit
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNKlrY0_VOc Introduction Timestamp:...
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[06/52] Accessible Kubernetes with Terraform and DigitalOcean
Kubernetes can be a beast, if you haven't paid the price needed to wrap your head around the full...
![[05/52] The Beauty of Zig-WASM-Python](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F078o7rhjhkjcjwshnns2.png)
[05/52] The Beauty of Zig-WASM-Python
If you're poked around a few things, you know that WASM can be pretty neat. That having said, it...
![[04/52] MOAR CMAKEZ!](https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=1000,height=420,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fufbvfng8qm82etksz3yr.png)
[04/52] MOAR CMAKEZ!
One of the more wonderful things about CMake standardizing C++ codebases is that programs (like...
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[01/52] - Introduction and Media Production Pipeline
This is an attempt to document and outline a bare-bones, minimal-overhead pipeline for generating...
What Happened to DreamHost?
Forgive the Rant What on earth am I even talking about? Here's some background, so you...
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[03/52] - CMake and Git Submodules: More Advanced Cases
Background There's a saying in political circles: "Libertarians agree on only two things:...
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[02/52] - DFGV: Self-Contained Full-Stack Web Apps
"Stack" is a loaded term. I did a substantial amount of development in college and grad school (both...
Basic C++ Unit Testing with GTest, CMake, and Submodules
Reusing C++ projects is a bad enough experience. When it comes to the complexity overhead introduced...
Give Me A .JSON, Vasili; One .JSON Only, Please
Meta-files proliferate in a JavaScript package (no matter what Node-based or submodule management...
Felt Cute, Might git rm --rf
Background A while back, I wrote an article on the evolution of game engines from beginner...
3 Commands for Cracking the K8s Rosetta Stone
Honestly, these are more for my own notes than anything else. YMMV. Might add more than three, but...
AWS Terraform for Single Containers
I recently worked through and wrote up a basic comparison of cloud providers, with the intent of...
Porting from RequireJS to ES6
Background We have a modest (6-figure SLOC) size codebase for web applications that has...
Consistent Command-Line Execution of ES6 Module Entry Points
Shorter post today with a modest snippet I cobbled together that I will be reusing a lot from here on...