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Blender rendering on a Mac
I’ve done 3D work in the past with both Maya and Cinema4D, but I’m now giving Blender 2.8 a go. The interface has been completely overhauled and it seems far more approachable. This also means I have some learning to do and, naturally, the issue of rendering came up pretty quick.
In 2014 Apple decided it was going to ...
Adding custom brushes to Zbrush
If you’ve created or downloaded some 3D Sculpting Brushes for use in ZBrush you’ll probably want to have them available to you each time you launch the application. Importing them one by one each time would be ridiculous.Stop Turbolinks from adding multiple script tags with nonce
If you’re using a Content Security Policy (CSP) in your Rails app you probably already know how finicky things can get. One common annoyance you may run into is an issue where a script tag is added to the <head> over and over again with each page request. It’s no bueno, but there’s a way around it.
Let’s assume the fo...
Using private NPM packages with Rails, Heroku and Github
There are numerous reasons why you’d want to leverage the following setup. However, I’m going to be using a trivial example of sharing some CSS styles across different Rails apps via an npm package. That npm package will be private and hosted on GitHub. After we install the package into our Rails project via Yarn, we’l...
How to handle time in Rails
Handling time is a doozy. It’s not necessarily a problem that is specific to Rails either. It’s just hard. There are a thousand things to consider. I want to help you get an idea of what a reasonable setup might look like and let you go from there. The following steps are meant to be more conceptual than a line-by-line...
Cleaning up figures in Action Text
Action Text and Trix are great and give you an immense amount of power right out of the box. That being said, I didn’t like a bit of the styling for both the presentation of the figure to the user and in the editor. So let’s fix it!
- You’re using Bootstrap 4
- You’re starting from a fresh install of Action Text
If you...
Customizing the Trix toolbar
I recently added the Trix Editor to a Rails app I was working on and quickly found that I was going to need to do some modifications to the toolbar buttons. Out of the box, Trix only gives you an h1 button for creating headers and the site I was building was already populating an h1 tag via a separate field. Therefore,...
My websites
Web devs are constantly putting up and pulling down their own sites and I’m no different. So here is my latest attempt at organization. I plan to make this site my informal blog where I’ll talk freely about anything. leavingharbor.com will just focus primarily on my company and its endeavors.
I felt like polluting my ...
Restoring a lost scene in Unity
FYI – This mostly applies to folks using Macs.
Well shit. Losing progress on a project is bound to happen to you at some point in your career. Whether the application hangs and you have to restart or the power goes out, you’re bound to experience some bad luck once in a while. Turns out that was me this morning.
I sa...
Categories in a Rails App
Categorizing things in a Rails app is a common need, but it’s a non-trivial lift to get it all implemented. Database relationships need to be right. How in the world should you set up your forms? What’s going on in my controllers? I’m going to do my best to show you how I implement categories.
Here’s our little todo l...
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My blog primarily contains writings about my work on computers, but I occasionally mix in fun life stuff. I am, at best, a mediocre writer, but I like doing my part to give back to the community. Feel free to contact me if you have specific something to chat about. See you around!