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Corey Snyder

Corey Snyder

Engineering Manager at Root leading the App Platform and Direct Insurance teams; responsible our iOS, Android, and Web Apps. I have independently developed & released multiple mobile & web games.

Columbus, Ohio •
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Drones

Flight Controller Wiring Guides

Notes: All of these builds & wiring guides are for flight controllers that run Betaflight. If you're interested in how I configure Betaflight on all of my quads, check out this video. Some

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    Corey Snyder
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Drones

Flight Test Peltonia Raffles

My Story: In the world we live in it seems impossible to not have been affected by cancer in some way; Whether personally being affected or through a family member, a friend, or

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    Corey Snyder
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Drones

FuriousFPV TrueD + BuckeyeFPV

Guys, if there weren't enough reasons already to upgrade to the latest TrueD firmware (3.2), I'll add one more! Custom BuckeyeFPV splash screen! Here's how you do it. For the most part

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    Corey Snyder
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Drones

Quad Race Day Prep

TLDR: Hope for the best, plan for the worst. It's the night before the big race. You've gone to bed way later than had you planned because you were working on last minute

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    Corey Snyder
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DIY Quadcopter Tower

The Plan I'd like the gate openings to be MultiGP regulation size (5'x5') after the mesh sides/top are added. That adds an extra two feet to the sides and one on top.

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    Corey Snyder
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Flynoceros Zeus Connex Build
Drones

Flynoceros Zeus Connex Build

The Build Connex Prosight HD Frame: Flynoceros Zeus HD Flight Controller: Raceflight Skitzo Motors: Edge Racing 2205 2480kv ESC: Sunny Sky R30 Racing ESCs Dry Fit the Frame, 3D Printed Parts, and FC

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    Corey Snyder
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Getting Github Pages working with a bootstrap fork

I recently forked Bootstrap, made some changes, and then tried to setup Githug Pages to show off my newly modified CSS library.. It didn't go so well. Here's how it looked, and none

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    Corey Snyder
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DIY Quadcopter Racing Gates

article.post img{ height: 300px; width: auto; } I was looking on my phone for a spot I could get some cheap pool noodles to make quadcopter gates. I came across this ad on

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    Corey Snyder
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Video Games

A bunch of Fallout 4 tips from my playthrough

Here are a bunch of Fallout 4 tips to remember: General Tips Sell Fusion Cores to traders before they run out, you will get much more for a partially charged core, over an

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    Corey Snyder
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Video Games

Things I dislike about Fallout 4

The Inventory System Trying to figure out what guns to hold onto is a huge pain. I have a "process" for filtering guns. I had to add an "*" to

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    Corey Snyder
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Zombie-Ops featured in the Chrome Store

It's always a nice surprise when Google features your game on the front page of the Chrome Web Store. Last week Zombie Ops got 1400 installs! Little wins like that make me want

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    Corey Snyder
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Free Back-End API & Database for Front-End Developers

This article is for anyone who can relate to the following scenario. You are a designer or front-end developer. You have a project you're working on that has some dynamic content. You'd prefer

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    Corey Snyder
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Game Development

Zombie Holiday makes Google Store Homepage!

Update 12/14 - In the last 7 days Zombie Holiday was viewed over 47,000 times! This past weekend my game, Zombie Holiday, made the homepage of the Google Chrome Webstore under

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    Corey Snyder
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Game Development

My Team's game gets 137 Million Taps in 24 hours!

The first project I was thrown into when joining my new PINK Nation team was to develop the front-end for a tapping game called The Amazing Tap Race. It was the final stage

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    Corey Snyder
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Mac OSX Mavericks & MySQL Install

After attempting to use homebrew to install MySQL on my Mac OSX 10.9.4 Mavericks machine and running into a bunch of issues I found this awesome tool. I was able to

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    Corey Snyder
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CSS3

IE8 drops fonts after iframe closes

Today I had to triage an IE8 bug related to font's going screwy after iFrame overlays are opened and then closed. Upon further investigation here's what I've found.. Problem You launch an iframe

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    Corey Snyder
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Game Development

Mistborn 2D Sidescroller Game Design Doc

Description The goal is to create a 2D side-scroller game which takes place in the Mistborn universe. The user will play the role of a young mistborn learning his/her allomantic abilities in

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    Corey Snyder
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I recently installed Rally Armor Mudflaps on my 2015 Subaru WRX STI

A couple weekends ago I made the first appearance modification to my 2015 Subaru WRX STI. I threw on some Rally Armor Mudflaps. I was nervous after watching a few youtube videos of

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    Corey Snyder
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Our Bra Experience exemplifies best practices in UX

I'm part of a Front-End team at Victoria's Secret known as "The Bra Experience Team". Since I started here in March, we've been hard at work crafting a customizable Bra Boutique

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    Corey Snyder
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Cloudinary Image Export Failure fix.

Recently I was trying to export all of my wordpress blog images into cloudinary so that I could move them over to my ghost blog. When I would click "apply" it

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    Corey Snyder
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JavaScript

Shorthand Javascript "if this do that" blocks.

Often times when writing JavaScript I constantly run into blocks like below: if(shouldDoThis){ doThing(); } Recently I've seen a different implementation of the same logic which looks like... shouldDoThis && doThing(); The way the

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    Corey Snyder
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CSS3

iOS Safari Web Crashes & Fixes Part 1

This week I was tasked with figuring out why certain pages on our site crash on iOS Safari on iPad OS 7.1+. The page I started on was a product listing page.

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    Corey Snyder
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The coolest looking juice ever!

I whipped up this latest juice concoction as part of a 30-Day Juice challenge I'm doing. I have to say it's the coolest looking juice I've made to date! Ingredients Apple - 1

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    Corey Snyder
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Running Lean

How I've been Running Lean

### Intro Over the last couple months I've been neck deep in the procedures and philosophies of "[Running Lean Website](http://runninglean.co/)," a book by [Ash Maurya](https://twitter.com/ashmaurya)

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Games I played/completed in 2013

I figured I should keep an exhaustive list of games that I not only played but finished in 2013. These games will undoubtedly have an influence on the games I work on. So

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    Corey Snyder
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