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Wallpapers: Spirals & Whirls
I’ve been experimenting with the Taijitu shapes (yin-yang stuff) and fire. These wallpapers are the result:
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Released Bombardo!
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Another Great GDC Talk: Hearts & Minds
Recently I enjoyed watching this old GDC talk titled Hearts & Minds by game designer Frank Lantz. While watching another talk, it popped into my mind again so I felt like I had to share & keep a note of it.
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On Advice
While going through the Game Developer Conference back catalog, I came across this wonderful video titled “Everything I Said Was Wrong: Why Indie Is Different Now”. Basically it is a bunch of game developers reflecting on the advice they have given over the years.
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Wallpapers: Bridge, Other Winds & Angular
These are a few variations on the same color scheme. The last one is my favorite.
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State of the Blog
It’s been a long while since I last made a blog post. About 4 months. It’s due to a mixture of busy schedule & plain & simple procrastination.
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Matte AR is Out
We’ve finally released Matte AR, an AR app for showcasing Matte Studio’s works. . This picture should be a good summary of the app’s functionality:
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Building erdemtu.com - Learning Meteor
My original plan was to use Vapor to build the website but the possibility of an upcoming project that required a more mature solution made me change my mind. It now makes more sense to learn a more tried and true web framework. Hence the title “Learning Meteor”.
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Wallpapers: Memento Mori & Skullson
As usual, I got bored of my wallpaper phone. So I made two.
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Useful Swift Snippets
I came across a collection of Swift snippets by Ritesh Gupta (Thanks to This Week in Swift). Useful stuff.
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Path of Least Resistance & Human Behavior
My favorite tool for predicting and understanding behavior is the principle of path of least resistance.
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Building erdemtu.com - Functionality & Technology
Next step in building erdemtu.com is listing the features and deciding on the technology to implement the functionality. My previous post should be helpful.
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Building erdemtu.com - Purposes & Motivations
So I decided to rebuild my website. Rebuild is probably not the right word, the site is simply a Jekyll blog. It does its job well but I want a little more than that. Its looks okay but it could use some work.
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Purpose of Blogging
Recently I’ve had difficulty picking topics to blog about. This lead me to question my reasons for blogging. And the purpose of a blog.
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Group Expense Tracker Featured as One of the 10 Best Apps of 2016
To my pleasant surprise, Group Expense Tracker (aka Alman Usulü) has been selected as one of the 10 best apps of 2016 in the Turkish App Store. 10th best to be exact.
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Wallpapers: December
I couldn’t come up with something worth writing about this week. I haven’t been that strict about the blogging habit so rather than let another week go by, I decided to share a couple of iPhone wallpapers that I made.
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Adventures in Unity
After further explorations I decided to stick with Unity. So far it has its ups and downs.
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Politics of Talking about Politics
I find it hard to talk about politics with strangers. Especially online. You never know what to expect in terms of political leanings and more importantly temperament.
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Exploring Vuforia
I needed to use some augmented reality tech for a new iOS project. Basically what I needed was some image targeting stuff; I needed to put an image, video or a model on top of a predefined image in the screen. This has been possible for years but hasn’t been all that popular.
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Smoking in Airplanes
The shifts in what we consider “acceptable” or “common sense” are interesting. Smoking in airplanes is a good example. While watching Mad Men you get used to people smoking constantly but it is another matter when half of the passengers lit up their cigarettes.
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Finally Released Tablecloth
I finally released Tablecloth on Github and CocoaPods. Sure, other similar solutions has popped up, ever since I wrote the very first version of it in Objective-C. At this point it was a matter of principle.
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Wallpapers as a Hobby
I have this hobby of making wallpapers for phones. Here is the first one I ever made:
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Eat the Frog vs Start the Engine
An advice I hear from time to time is to eat the frog . Basically the advice is to start your work day by tackling the hardest task you have. Benefit #1 is that you’ll avoid those situations where you keep putting of the hard tasks over and over again. Benefit #2 since you’ve put your hardest task behind, rest of the day goes much smoother.
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Expiration Dates of Productivity Tools
Every so often I get fed up with whatever note taking, habit tracking, to do list tool that I am using. I used to think it was about the feature set.
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A Couple of Writing Tips to Keep in Mind
While browsing Reddit, I’ve come across a great tip for writing. “Vary Sentence Lengths”:
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Good Habits vs Procrastination
It’s been close to a year since I last wrote a blog post. My aim was to post much more frequent updates but I guess such a vague goal was bound to fail. If I already acquired this habit of writing posts, it would have been fine to be that relaxed but going forward, I’ll be more specific in my goals.
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The Moon was the Minute Hand, the Seasons the Hour Hand
The Strange & Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit
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Handling UITableView Objects
While developing for iOS, it is pretty much inevitable to work with
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Swifty Business
I finally found the opportunity to learn and use Swift. When Swift came out, I wasn’t receptive to the idea of combining Objective-C and Swift in my ongoing projects; it felt messy and risky. The fact that including Swift Runtime Library increased the size of the app was another cause of concern. The most I did with Swift, was a pet project that I eventually discarded.
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Tinkering with Jekyll #2: Cooking up a Rakefile
I am working on automating some simple tasks like creating posts. After some googling, I ended up making a Rakefile with the help of a blog post by Arjan van der Gaag and a github repo by Ellen Gummesson.
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Tinkering with Jekyll #1: Basic Customization
I started tinkering with the blog to customize it a bit to my tastes. It has been very simple so far but I didn’t try anything out of the ordinary anyway.
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Trying out Jekyll
After considering Wordpress, Octopress, Jekyll and a custom website made with Ruby On Rails, I decided to go forward with Jekyll. It seemed like the fastest and simplest way to go.
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