Rodney Lab Newsletter — June 2024Rodney Lab Newsletter — June 2024
TypeScript 5.5 #
Microsoft just released TypeScript 5.5, and it includes a couple of unexpected gems, like Regex Syntax Checking and Inferred Type Predicates. To learn more about the updates, see
If you are new to TypeScript, or even want to level up, Matt Pocock the all-round TypeScript Wizard has a new book dropping soon, and it’s going to be free!
🧑🏽💻 Follower Feedback — Dear ImGui #
Dear ImGui is C++ tooling for quickly creating user interfaces. I have seen a little interest in the post I wrote on using Dear ImGui with Raylib (Raylib is a C library for quick-prototyping of games). Dear ImGui is fantastic for creating DevTools for games, or quickly knocking up a GUI backend. The APIs are powerful, and the Online Manual Site is replete with code to let you get to the races quicker.
Here’s a link to that Dear ImGui Raylib post, as well as another post which looks at egui — a Rust-based alternative to Dear ImGui. Hope you find them useful!
- Using raylib with Dear ImGui: Game Dev Debugging UI;
- Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection; and
- Trying egui: building a Cistercian Clock with Rust GUI.
📢 Fun Finds #
- DevOps Tooling — Coolify & piku: If you’re looking to avoid provider lock-in, you might try one of these for deploying your site, app, or project. Coolify is kind of a website hosting alternative to the popular web infrastructure providers, which you can manage over SSH. Python-based piku lets you use git to push fresh deploys to your self-hosted instance.
- Learning —
Rust Cheat Sheet: I found
this Rust sheet super useful for a couple of Rust syntax snippets that I can
never remember, like
Iteratormethods,split,splitnand friends! Add the link to your bookmarks, or print out the cheat sheet to make a wall poster to hang beside your desk. What Rust syntax do you always struggle to remember? - Service — counterscale — Self-hosted Analytics running on Cloudflare: Alternative to Google Analytics, which you can set up on Cloudflare. Also consider Fathom, Matomo, Pirsch or Plausible analytics providing a mix of hosted and self-hosted alternatives.
👋🏽 Until next time! #
Hope there was something valuable in here for you. As always, reach out with feedback. Here are some links to recent content, which I hope you will find useful: