Stellar Scrapm'n is hauling on the Playdate
Last weekend, I joined forces with my buddy Hunter to make a game for PlayJam 8, a game jam for the adorable yellow Playdate game console.
Introducing: Stellar Scrapm'n! Descend into debt as you ascend to the stars in a clunky little hauling ship. Crank to steer through rocky caverns in search of valuable junk you can sell to pay off a little bit of that financial liability at a time. Also: robots will shoot at you, pew pew, watch out!
Graphic design is my passion.
If you're so inclined, we'd...
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September 16, 2025
Translating the STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN status code into customer-ready text
Reducing the level of alarm.
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September 16, 2025
Jumping to the end of bash's history
I use bash's history all the time, via ctrl+r and also with the up and down keys; it's wonderful. Sometimes, I want to get back to the end of my history and I recently discovered that there's a shortcut for this: meta+>. It doesn't matter where you are in your history, pressing meta+> jumps you to the end and you have a blank prompt again. I use iTerm2 on my Mac and have my right… continue reading....
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September 16, 2025
Supporting platform-specific .NET tools on old .NET SDKs: Exploring the .NET 10 preview - Part 8
In this post I look at the advantages, trade-offs, and implications of the new platform-specific .NET tool feature added in .NET 10, and how to support old SDKs...
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September 16, 2025
From Figma to WordPress in Minutes with Droip
Turn your Figma designs into live WordPress sites in minutes with Droip—a powerful no-code builder that bridges the gap between design and development....
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September 16, 2025
Representative Line: Reduced to a Union
The code Clemens M supported worked just fine for ages. And then one day, it broke. It didn't break after a deployment, which implied some other sort of bug. So Clemens dug in, playing the game of "what specific data rows are breaking the UI, and why?"
One of the organizational elements of their system was the idea of "zones". I don't know the specifics of the application as a whole, but we can broadly describe it thus:
The application oversaw the making of widgets. Widgets could be assigned to ...
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September 16, 2025
Add Types To Your Local Storage During End-to-End Tests
If your web application stores data locally in the localSt...
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September 16, 2025
How to be witty and off-the-cuff as a slow deep thinker
Deep thinking is the super power of wit...
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September 16, 2025