Hey all 👋, it’s been a little while since my last post, but I’m excited to be back with some new content! In this post we’ll learn a bit about programming an ATtiny85 microcontroller directly without the use of any environments or libraries like Arduino/avr-libc/etc. This approach is primarily for…

Hey everyone, this post is less of a tutorial and more of a high level overview of chippy and how I went about building it. Hopefully it can serve as a starting point as well for anyone interested in building an emulator. Let’s jump in! What is a Game Emulator? A game emulator is a…

Welcome to dora, the JSON query tool! As of right now I don’t suggest actually using dora, as it is a WIP and you will be better off using the standard library’s encoding/json or even another 3rd party package. I also haven’t completed full support for the spec, in favor…

UPDATE 5/16/2020: Hey everyone, I just updated this project to use Go modules. Unfortunately realize has not been updated in quite a while and is not working. There are other options such as air if you’d like to use a live-reloader. …

UPDATED (7/23/19): Hey everyone, I just updated the source code and gists throughout this tutorial to use Terraform v0.12.5. Also there were many requests to create the ECS task execution role and ECS auto scaling role with Terraform (prior to now it was done manually in the AWS GUI in…

Before we jump into the tutorial I wanted to do a brief overview. Fargate is a new launch type within ECS for deploying containers. It came out around the end of November in 2017 and has now expanded to us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2, and eu-west-1. In a nutshell, Fargate gives you…

This tutorial was influenced from this excellent blog post about writing a basic blockchain using Go. I’ve ported it over to Crystal. I’ll start off with two explanations: A blockchain is essentially a distributed and decentralized database of ordered transactions that uses cryptography to keep this “ledger” secure and immutable…