Hardware RTX on There was a time when 3D accelerators were new on the market. When Quake 2 with Voodoo shows what computers can do in real time. Those was very exciting times.Now 22 years
GodotEngine Godot Visual Shader: Simple Fire Fire is very complicated and can be made by many techniques. I usually use particles but there is even simpler way using visual shader. For some small detail in the background it's perfect.
Web Server IBM Server Migration Part #9 - 162 Days Later Solid as RockUptime right now is 51 days. There were a major power loss in the neighbourhood that last half a day. Few hours more than my UPS can stand. But it stand
GodotEngine Godot Visual Shader: Flag The ProblemI needed a simple animated flag material. It doesn't need to be a physic based. Just a simple "cartoon" like movement. It's easy to do and fast to calculate. Plain flat on
Game Development Godot Visual Shaders: Rock A start of a seriesVisual Shaders in Godot is kind a new thing. There are very few tutorials and articles about. I wanted to learn it as it's a very important peace of
Game Development Make Godot Camera Better with Vignetting and Chromatic Aberrations During my not-so-secret project to make a visual demo in GodotEngine I'm trying to make most of the graphics engine. But as in most production most magic is made by faking it. This
Game Development Noise Based Single Terrain Shader I learn a lot doing my shader experiments in Islands of Shaders, then Mystic Treasure Hunt and now in Valley of Shaders. Over this course I made lot of awesome game worlds. But
GNU/Linux Enter The Fourth Industrial Revolution with RepRap One aspect of this new Industry 4.0 is 3D printing. But this technology is with us since 1981. What changed recently is RepRap. An open source, super cheap and self-replicating 3D printer
Hardware The IT Guy Essentials - Part #2 In the last part I covered the usual suspects. Things that were more or less expected to be on that type of a list. In this part I'll present things that even I
GNU/Linux The Perfect GNU Distribution After years of using GNU/Linux, distro-hopping and texting many WMs i know what I need and what not. I manage to create an private instruction what to do after the clean install
Web Server IBM Server Migration Part #8 - Reduction After 54 days of running server I'm ready to decide what services should stay and what were not used thus not needed.No one even notice that they are down. And if I
Game Development Mystic Treasure Hunt - Update #1 To learn 3D game development I made a w test project - Island of Shaders. From that experiments I created the grass and terrain shader. Having that I then moved to the new
GNU/Linux Reusing Fujitsu Lifebook P1610 - Part #2 StorageThe old disk drive was removed. In it's place I putted ATA <-> CF converter with a new SanDisk 16GB CompactFlash drive (50Mb/s). It is faster than the ATA connection
Hardware Reusing Fujitsu Lifebook P1610 - Part #1 LifebookThis is an ultra-portable notebook from 2005. It costs $2,279.00 when new. Now after all those years I paid ~$64.00. That's a nice reduction in price.It has Intel Core
Hardware The IT Guy Essentials - Part #1 I have collected and used a few incredible devices over the years that now becomes an essential stuff for me. Those are the devices that I need few times over the week or
Web Server IBM Server Migration Part #7 Uptime30-day uptime achieved! No problems occurred during that time. There were power loses (UPS works) and one instance of no network (I pulled the RJ45 by accident and went to work).Services reductionI
Web Server CryptPad Review Secure, confident, multi-user, real-time collaboration tool. Collaborate in Confidence Grow your ideas together with shared documents while Zero Knowledge technology secures your privacy; even from us. DriveThis is the dashboard, online drive, home
Game Development How I Grow with Grass Shader IntroductionThe pixel-art, 2D guy try to make a 3D environment. Scary ShaderThere were a days when I was scared of shaders. I tried them once and decided that this is not something for
Game Development GodotCon and Poznan Game Arena 2018 Five days of eventsStaring from 10 Nov till 14 Nov we were at the Poznan International Fair. First two days was Polish edition of GodtCon. An small event dedicated Godot Engine community.Last
Web Server Simple HTML Websites Are The Pure Essence of The Internet I have made small "homepage" sites as long as I have internet connection. I always liked the simplicity of the process. And instant portability as the only thing I needed to give was
Game Development Play It Again: Piradice, BitWars, PooM First successful games I made are now online again!PiradiceTurn based strategy game about pirates and daemons. And dices obviously. Made on my own engine in pure JavaScript.Awesome music made by Przemysław
Web Server 30 Day Challenge I spin up so many containers for all of those self-hosted services. Now what?Verification TimeNow I start my 30 day challenge to verify each service. Some of them could end up not
Web Server IBM Server Migration Part #6 Even more containers!But now I have a professional monitoring tools. Like Chronograf that takes data from collectd and cadvisor.Chronograf dashboardI'm still learning so it's just like a test for now.New
Web Server Self-hosting My story to self-host everything!According to the Wikipedia article we learn that it's all about hosting web services on own hardware. Owning both (software and hardware) sides of the experience.Consuming MediaFreshRSSMy
Web Server IBM Server Migration Part #5 I slowly migrating all the stuff. But one the way I found and learn new cool things.SSL For Docker ContainersMore about this on dedicated post. I have moved half of the containers.
