Category: Programming
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PSX-Style Retro Shader in Godot 4: Colour Banding, Dithering & Pixel Upscale
How to build a full PSX-style retro rendering stack in Godot 4: colour banding shader, Bayer dithering, scanlines, half-resolution dynamic upscale, camera auto-look tooling, and cinematic fade transitions.
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UI Testing at Light Speed: Automated Harnesses That Catch Bugs in Seconds
Stop clicking menus manually. An isolated test harness can verify your UI components in 2 seconds — catching naming bugs, path errors, and layout overlaps before they reach…
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Windows 11 July 2026 Update Breaks Dell Laptop Charging — Full Fix Guide
Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday update (KB5101650) is causing Dell laptops to stop detecting AC power. Battery shows ‘plugged in, not charging’ with nonsense time estimates. Here’s the…
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OpenCode Rename Chat: Keep Your AI Sessions Organized
Tired of stale, auto-generated AI session titles in OpenCode? The opencode-rename-chat plugin lets you rename sessions on the fly and add status markers like [WIP], [REVIEW], and [DONE]…
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Dynamic Split-Screen in Godot 4: GPU Shader-Based Approach
Traditional split-screen in local co-op games has always been a compromise. Two players on one screen usually means either a fixed vertical/horizontal divider — permanently sacrificing half the…
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Physics-Based Crate Carrying in Godot 4: A Spring-Damper Approach
In our ship-driving game Runners, players need to haul crates across ship decks, through doorways, around corners. Early prototypes used the standard Godot approach: press F, reparent the…
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Collision Jitter from Thin Objects: Why Your Floor is Bouncing
Understanding how thin collision shapes cause physics jitter and best practices for stable floor placement
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How I Automated Google Analytics So AI Can Read My Data and Make SEO Decisions
Google Analytics is a dashboard you click through. You log in, navigate to reports, filter by organic traffic, export CSVs, manually compare last month to this month. It…
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Veeam Instant Recovery to Hyper-V: When the BCD Points to the Wrong Drive Letter
Restoring a physical server into a Hyper-V test VM sounds straightforward. Veeam Instant Recovery promises a running VM in minutes, not hours. For the most part, it delivers.…