Luke Hatcher

Restoring Old Posts

I'm in the process of restoring a few of my blog posts from a decade ago. These are all largely out of date and the formatting won't be perfect, but as part of creating a new comfy home here I'd like to preserve some of my older content.

Store Binary Data in Twitter with Tootfiles

Sometimes a man's worst ideas lead to his finest moments: Ben Franklin decides to fly a kite in a storm and we get electricity (I'm paraphrasing that story), Alexander Graham Bell shacks up with his 15-year-old apprentice (who was deaf) and we get the telephone (paraphrasing again). Now, I don't

Coloring Sprites with Cocos2d-iPhone

As someone who enjoys finding better ways to do things, I wanted to share a new tip I learned this weekend. Do you find yourself wrangling a handful of all too similar sprites, only varying by color? A useful pattern in game development is to keep the number of sprites