As you may or may not have noticed I'm a complete fanboi over the Binding Of Isaac (BoI) franchise. I missed the first round of the original, but got hooked right after the first expansion of the original game out (WotL). Then the complete remake cam...
The past six months I've been conducting an experiment. I've written about it before but think I've kept fairly silent on the whole thing in "this" life. Then again, if you follow me at all you probably couldn't have missed it. The experiment was abo...
A client of mine asked me to write blog posts for them. This is one of them. You can find the post on https://linden-it.com/how-to-get-smaller/ their website, linden-it.com ....
Last year I finally decided to swap my Trust Ergo Track for a new keyboard. The ergo track is hands the down the best keyboard ever made but it's also about 20 years old. There's only so many plugs you can add to a 9 pin DIN connector to USB. Well, t...
The next JS1k competition has begun! It'll be the sixth edition, not counting that xmas spaz. I'm a little amazed to have held it up so long. And I don't really see it dying any time soon. In case you don't know, JS1k is a JavaScript minification ...
My current contract requires me to write CoffeeScript. It's a struggle but you get used to it. One of the things CS does drastically different from JS is parenthesis; calls don't need them unless there are no arguments. This leads to the following co...
A prospective client of mine asked me to take a look at some design docs for a website. Let's call the client Bo and leave it at that. Bo is a designer who had a very specific idea about the designed website and had hired some people execute this ide...
Welcome to a game I played today. Ever as a kid I've was enticed watching other kids play video games on their Amiga's and Philips MSX's. I had no choice really; I've not really been in a position to own such pleasure boxes myself. Well don't get me ...
Honest warning; this is a random brainfart. Take it with a grain of salt, assume it won't ever be a real thing. This prevents you from disappointed. Let's talk html templates. Now you may think that this is slow because all the things JS. But you'd b...
I love writing parsers. So when a new client asked me to write a CSS and GSS parser in JavaScript I jumped right in. I've had enough experience with CSS to figure that a CSS parser shouldn't take me that much time. GSS on the other hand I had no expe...