Jason Lotito | damnscout

The Word of the Dungeon Designing dungeons seems easy at first glance.

Pattern Fill: How Adungeon Lays Down "Stone" Shapes Automatically If you have ever tried to hand-place a bunch of stone outlines in a pixel dungeon, you know what happens.

In the depths of console.log statements, wisdom awaits those patient enough to seek it.

Every refactor is a step toward enlightenment, every deprecated method a lesson learned.

A new framework appears on the horizon.

As I am writing the game, there are times I want to test something out in the game, but because of the nature of the game, getting to that state naturally will take some time.

As I am writing the game, there are times I want to test something out in the game, but because of the nature of the game, getting to that state naturally will take some time.

Or when is “too much” too much?

Shaders are scary.

The current codename for this game is xenod, Xeno Defense.

So much to say.

It’s actually fairly simple.

So, we looked at JPEG image encoding, which is a very popular image codec.

Given what I know of this person’s performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus.

Before I started using this method, I always struggled with ways to highlight parts of code I wanted to talk about when giving presentations.

Practice your talk before speaking.

All too often on Hacker News, I come across a comment wouldn’t most of them be able to build something like this for internal use in a single day Yes.

What to do: * Find out where you are * Take a small step towards your goal * Adjust your understanding based on what you learned * Repeat How to do it: When faced with two of more alternatives that deliver roughly the same value, take the path that makes…

Last year I read 37 books.

Understand and respect your users You are building something for someone.

I’ve been thinking a lot about performance this past year.

I used to have a problem learning new programming languages.

Atlassian Summit 2013 Talk

Originally posted on theMeetMe Engineering Blog.

Since speaking at Atlassian Summit (of which I’ll be writing and sharing more about in the coming weeks), I’ve been following up by reading more and more about the topics that I covered.

I’ve been on a Startup Weekend kick this past year.

I’ve never heard this term before, but it’s something I’ve coined here at work.

This is a simple trick.

With the release of PHP 5.4, Traits were added to our toolbox.

A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away – Antoine de St-Expurey HipChat At work, we are currently experimenting with HipChat.

That time again.

At myYearbook, we pack our JS and CSS files.

No.

I’m a long time user of vi (and I use vi interchangeably for both vi and vim), but it wasn’t until recently that I really started to understand the way vi works.

The Story Thus Far It’s safe to say 2011 was a big year for me.

Needed to install PEAR on Lion, as my laptop hadn’t yet needed it.

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I once posted "comments indicate future refactoring."

In August, I moved from Montreal after almost 10 years to the small town of Telford, Pennsylvania, a little less than an hour north of Philadelphia.

We’re moving.

Apple announced on Monday iCloud, Lion, and iOS5.

ControlMaster and ControlPath are the ssh config options you are looking to use here.

If you don’t know, Forrst is a invite-online developer and designer community started by Kyle Bragger (@kylebragger).

Zach posted to HN about how he wanted to work for a company like Twilio, but wasn’t sure.

This post used to be called Don’t confuse validation with filtering.

Eric Hogue, a fellow PHP programmer up here in Montreal has written about Profiling a PHP Application.

The What Just because you use objects doesn’t mean you are programming in an object oriented manner.

FTP in Eclipse?

4JC.IN is useless for anyone but me, but it’s still useful for me.

privacy.txt is last weekends project.