Part XI→ Websites And My Own Land — This story arc is about a fun file eraser I wrote as a hobby project — you can check out the working versions here! — https://blackhole2020.app/ — TLDR; Who needs AppStores — just launch it on your own website. Don’t waste that much time here — just have fun Websites And My Own Land All right…

Part X→ Releasing the First Version — This story arc is about a fun file eraser I wrote as a hobby project — you can check out the working versions here! — https://blackhole2020.app/ — TLDR; I get my hopes high and then smashed into the rocks. AppStores suck. No surrender — AppStore rejection just leads me to the…

Part IX → Porting C# UWP to MacOS SwiftUI — This story arc is about a fun file eraser I wrote as a hobby project — you can check out the working versions here! — https://blackhole2020.app/ — TLDR; Declarative UI frameworks are awesome but deceptively tricky It’s worth it to learn hard, new things Porting C# UWP to MacOS SwiftUI It’s that time! I’ve wanted to write…

Part VIII → The Attempt at Beta Mountain — Check out what this story is about — https://blackhole2020.app/ TLDR; Switching platforms can save your soul Epic fails are sometimes a blessing Choosing SwiftUI on MacOS after Windows UWP (what a big change!) Pushing To A Beta Release (The Mountain) After a minor detour into the swamp lands of thoughts and fears, I say to myself “it’s time…

Part VII → Stuck in the Quagmire of Fear — Check out what this story is about — https://blackhole2020.app/ TLDR; Where The Project Gets Stuck in the Quagmire Where things get ugly, not pretty, not easy In the last part, I really got deep into the performance issues Lottie animations have. I suspected as much…but now I get to face the…

Part VI → Rabbit Holes and Deep Caves of Code — Check out what this story is about — https://blackhole2020.app/ TLDR; A deep dive into various problems UWP has in store for those who would dare (warning lots of source code) A long journey through rabbit holes and how to avoid them How I manage not to #ragequit despite all of the…

Part V → Finishing the Animation — Check out what this story is about — https://blackhole2020.app/ TLDR; Finalizing the animations using live code Cutting the design back due to performance issues Moving forward with the rest of the app coding Finishing the Animation In the previous part I went over setting up the coding prototype and how to iterate the animations…

Part IV → Let the building begin! — Check out what this story is about — https://blackhole2020.app/ TLDR; Straight to prototyping code and animations Working in C# + Windows + Lottie animations Iterating with the UpWork designer back and forth Let the Building Begin! Windows is up first so let’s go over my basic attack plan. 1. C# Universal Windows Platform https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/get-started/get-set-up

A comprehensive cloud engineering cookbook with step-by-step how to instructions! — TLDR; What you learn here: How to setup virtual machines and servers (Windows 10 in this example) running in Microsoft Azure How to secure Remote Desktop + file shares from behind a VPN for safety How to deploy a Netgate PFsense firewall that protects the VMs from internet intrusion Humor 😆, without it, this journey…