Tori Holmes-Kirk

Jul 20

Unity Quick-tip: Billboarding with Cinemachine

When building your 3D game in Unity, you might have the need to add some UI elements in world space. Maybe it’s an arrow indicating the active pawn or a health bar for each of the enemies, or some interaction hits for the user. In these cases, typically you will…

Unity

2 min read

Apr 11, 2021

Five Things I Miss from Building Web Sites in the 90s

A few days ago I read a tweet by the fabulous Emma Bostian that got me thinking about my 20+ year journey in web development. This statement rings very true. To take it a step further, that list of things you are expected to know is actually an everchanging…

Web Development

5 min read

Five Things I Miss from Building Web Sites in the 90s

Mar 14, 2021

Polling with Redux Sagas

When developing an app, you may run into a case where you need to wait for a long running process to complete. A common pattern for dealing with such a case is polling. In this pattern data is repeatedly requested from a source, such an an API, at intervals. …

Web Development

3 min read