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If you are getting a “Could not read source map for file” error in the console when trying to link to a JavaScript library like Tensorflow, the solution is simple. You propably don’t need the source map anyways unless you are planning to really digging into the code base of the library. So simply:
Here is an open source web tool for making branching dialogue trees for games. The alpha version is aimed specifically at Construct 3 but there are also plans for more generic JSON exporters.
Check out Game Dialogue Maker here:
Solid collision filtering is a really useful feature in Construct 3, but it’s not very well documented.
Continue reading “How to use solid collision filtering with Tile movement in Construct 3”
I tested many different options for creating wordart/wordclouds online. Some of them worked well but then exporting wasn’t free. Others were a bit too simple with not much to customize. But this one is both free and it has plenty of handy customizations available: https://www.wordclouds.com/
Sometimes you have a file with tens or hundreds of lines of text and you need to wrap each line with double quotes and a comma so that it can be easily put inside a javascript array. This can happen for example if your data is rows in a spreadsheet. Here’s how you can go from a list of lines to a quoted, comma separated list:
Continue reading “Convert lines of text to an array format”The Adsense report system can be a bit confusing at times. I decided to write these instructions after struggling to display daily earnings information for just a single site in Adsense.
The easiest way I found was this:
Select the “entire account by day” report type.
Go to the “search or filter your data” input box and choose “site”.
Choose the site you want to see reported. Hit apply.
Now you should see a daily breakdown for just a single site.
If you have been doing web development using port 10080 you might have run into some issues recently since many browsers including Chrome and Firefox have decided to add that port to their blocked ports list.
I use a tool called InstantWP for WordPress development and it’s using port 10080 for http by default.
I first researched the option to change the ports IWP is using. It seems like it could be done from the config file which you can open from the “Advanced” tab by clicking “Edit Config File”. In the file that opens you should see a setting called PortOffset. I tried to change that but couldn’t get it to work even after trying many different numbers for the port offset.
I also tried to add a flag into Chrome’s startup parameters by right-clicking the Chrome icon and choosing properties. Then I replaced the value under “target” with the following string:
“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –explicitly-allowed-ports=10080
However that didn’t seem to fix the situation in my case. I still got the same “unsafe port” error from Chrome.
What finally helped was switching to Firefox and performing these steps:
Then paste in this string to the search bar:
network.security.ports.banned.override
Choose “string” as the type (I know, number would seem more logical), click on the + button and enter the port number you want to allow (in my case 10080).
Now you should be able to access applications via that port!
If you are doing a lot of screencasts with Zoom in which you share your screen, you might be wondering how you can stop the little video frame from the webcam being included in the recording. Luckily there is an option in the zoom settings to do just that.
Start by clicking on the little cogwheel symbol in order to open the Zoom settings:
Next go to the “Recording” tab and there you can find the “Record video during screen sharing” setting:
