J Lopes — Developer Portfolio & Creative Writings

export const psychonauts = [ { 'img': '/games/psychonauts.webm', 'tooltip': 'Psychonauts', } ]; At Kofukuji temple in Chiba prefecture, in Japan, a Buddhist priest named Bungen Oi held a funeral for 114 dogs at the same time.

Carrot, meet stick!

The field of semiotics studies how a shape, a sound, or a gesture comes to carry meaning.

The promise of instant productivity has been reshaping the SaaS industry, leaving professional casualties behind.

If you don't know what virtualization is, you probably don't need it.

Mandatory spoiler alert for plot points in There Is No Antimemetics Division This article is also available at Substack Qntm’s novel There Is No Antimemetics Division follows an organisation locked in a war against entities that erase themselves from human

Have you ever wanted to share a link that lands someone on a specific sentence rather than the top of the page?

Sometimes you need to write in Markdown, and sometimes you just want to click buttons and see your text get bold or italic right away (WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get).

I wanted to build my own word cloud generator because making words fit together without overlapping sounded like a fun challenge.

In developing this boombox, I wanted to revive both the feeling of tape players and the lost art of skeuomorphic design.

This started as a CodePen sketch: a colour palette generator that could do more than spit out random colours.

Background information Rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock is an expansion of the classic game of rock-paper-scissors.

Spider is a powerful web article parser that transforms cluttered web pages into clean, readable content.

Retrospective This idea was sound: Pick a template, type your captions, download the picture.

Retrospective This is a front-end for a language model, written in 2021.

export const art = 'https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steam/apps' The grid above is 27 game covers and about forty lines of CSS.

Cold.

"Welcome!"

Day 1 Two fifty-seven, points the Kit Cat Klock.

Seagulls fly in a circle, high in the sky on top of the cliff, their screeching contrasting with the quietness over the emerald water.

Preface: This is based on a collection of dream-like memories I experienced more than 20 years ago.

Along the derelict pier, people from all walks of life could be seen, all wandering aimlessly.

Skifree is a Windows 95 game about avoiding trees until a yeti eats you.

Retrospective It's nice to look back at code made years ago.