Great animation work in this short piece from Science@NASA that illustrates researchers using NASA’s Kepler space telescope have found evidence of strong magnetic fields in the cores of stars–a finding that could upset theories of stellar evolution.
Adding Subfolders to “My Drive” in Google Drive / Syncing individual folders to Drive Desktop Problem: Drive doesn’t (easily) allow you to ONLY add a subfolder to “My Drive”. This becomes problematic when you wish to sync only certain files using the Google Drive desktop application. Read below for the two workarounds (I personally prefer…
Presenting your video content on social media platforms is a great way to reach your audience. Video on Facebook has taken hold and the platform now hosts more than 8 billion views per day. Twitter Video is growing exponentially, seeing 220x growth in video views from mid-2015 to mid-2016. These platforms certainly present an opportunity to…
This is a demo of how you can use the “callback” pattern to restart a Step Functions state machine from within a Lambda function. It took me a while to dig through the AWS docs, sample code, and examples to unlock the mysteries, so I hope it saves you some time. It is inspired by…
I recently got Bash running on Windows. Since I use a Mac, one might wonder why I’d do such a thing? Here’s bullets of what my needs were: Needed to VPN into my customer’s network with minimal disruption to my Mac’s network settings Needed an environment that could run CAC software so I could use…
Here at V! Studios, we try to use our resources as efficiently as possible, as long as it doesn’t interfere with getting the job done. One of those resources is obviously computing horsepower, especially when it comes to rendering 3D and 2D images and animations. While we do have a wonderfully auto-scalable cloud-based…
While we have long had a presence on Facebook and Twitter, V! Studios has joined the ever-growing ranks of Instagram. V! Studios has joined the world of Instagram, or, as the kids now call it, the Gram. #coderlife #justcoderthings #helloworld #python #codelife #programming A photo posted by V!Studios (@the_v_studios) on May 24, 2016 at 11:48am…