Dillon Shook
Autodidact & Zero One Infinity Advocate
Location Boston, MA
Interests Programming, Photography, Cooking, Game Development, Reading, Guitar, Running, Travel, Never having enough time...
This Site Made with Astro, Cloudinary , and many many hours of writing, styling, editing, breaking things , fixing things, and hoping it all works out.
Education B.S. Computer Science, New Mexico Tech
Contact site at dillonshook dot com
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What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself
September 15th 2022
68K views
Macrocosm is a mobile game that takes you from atom to galactic empire across seven interconnected stages where making progress in one stage gives you a boost in the next! This post is a deep dive into the (nearly) four years of free time I spent making it.
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~29min read
What language am I writing again?
March 23rd 2022
2K views
Have you ever had that brainfart moment when you’re writing code and forget what syntax you’re supposed to be using? An example is helpful:
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~4min read
How Hard is your Email to Say?
August 1st 2020
7K views
You’re at the doctors office, talking to an acquaintance, or ordering something on the phone and they ask the question: What’s your email? Depending on your name, age, and your life choices this can be a breeze or the dreaded question. How long does it take before you have to break out the phonetic alphabet? How many times do you have to repeat it?
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~3min read
Your Reach is More Than You Think
June 30th 2020
2K views
On analytics, influence, and creativity
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~2min read
A Critique of React Hooks Addendum
May 7th 2020
10K views
A follow up to A Critique of React Hooks including quiz results and more
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~5min read
A Critique of React Hooks
April 27th 2020
45K views
A few thoughts to consider when using React hooks
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~6min read
Unity Save Game Editor
November 18th 2019
155K views
Hack your unity save games with this handy save game editor.
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~2min read
Hex Map Area Borders
June 16th 2019
4K views
Today we’re going to learn how to create a nice border around the perimeter of an area in a hex map using Unity and a LineRenderer. Here I have it as a dotted purple line but you can make it look like anything you want with the flexibility of the line renderer!
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2024
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What Do You Visualize While Programming?
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2024: A Blog Odyssey from Ghost through Hugo to Astro
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What Do You Think 2030 Will Be Like?
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The Best Software Development Lifecycle
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Change at the Highest Level Is Impossible
08-30
Where Did All the Tech Bloggers Go?
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Failing Upwards Again
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Planned App-solescence
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1 post
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Tradeoffs in Testing
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3 posts
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Testing Next.JS with Cypress and Mock Service Worker
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What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself
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What language am I writing again?
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How Hard is your Email to Say?
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Your Reach is More Than You Think
05-07
A Critique of React Hooks Addendum
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