Chris McCormick - News

Remember when Facebook and Twitter had an RSS feed?

There have been periods of my life where I stopped reading.

Kanban TODO is a markdown based kanban board implemented in a single index.html file.

An LLM will never kiss somebody for the first time.

There are few situations in life which offer a win-win-win outcome at low cost and without any real down side.

Jsfxr Pro is a retro 8-bit sound effects generator for game developers and musicians.

I've been working on Eucalypt, a frontend library for building small web apps with Squint-ClojureScript.

Two years ago I started working on Beat Maker.

Announcing Eucalypt!

Well our year long sabatical in London is over.

Watch Later is a 100% client-side web app you can use to save a list of YouTube videos without logging into YouTube itself.

A way to make sense of it is this.

The good folks at defn podcast recently had me on as a guest for some reason.

CodeShow is a code presentation tool I just released.

Your thumb depresses the microphone button with a soft click.

"How long until it's done?"

So far Clojure is not the best choice of language when it comes to generating code using LLMs.

We have a tendency to view things as fungible.

ClojureScript Tiny Slides is grug-brained presentation software.

Developers optimize for different things in different situations.

tl;dr: you can play the new version in your browser here 👉️ https://asterogue.com This is just a quick note to let you know I re-released my sci-fi roguelike Asterogue for the web, so you can now play it in your browser.

makesprite.com is a simple open-source online app I made for generating sprites for games.

Claude AI has a mode where it can generate something called "artifacts".

Last week I installed Xubuntu 22.04 on a Dell XPS 13 (9305).

tl;dr: check out LuaVST on ChatGPT if you want to generate some VST plugins.

On the last day of 2023 we hopped on a plane to London.

tl;dr: have some CSS animations to make your browser games juicy!

Today I put together a small test repo to check how much space is saved when replacing React with Preact in a ClojureScript project.

Hello!

tl;dr: you can generate very small (less than 1k) JS artifacts from ClojureScript with some tradeoffs.

Hello!

I predict Python will be the most used programming language among developers world wide by 2032.

My first app of the year is out, hooray!

2022 was a fun year for side projects.

Mastodon is a real breeze to develop for.

It's been a while since I posted an update.

Dear YouTube, What the actual heck?

Gather round friends for a true and epic tale of glorious Indie Hacking.

My son asked me to make a spaceship for his lizard toys.

The other day I released Doodle CSS.

Hello reader!

Sitefox is a back-end web framework for ClojureScript.

After many days of debugging (and filling out a bajillion forms) Melody Generator is finally available as an iOS app!

It's a simple fact that most startup ideas are not going to work out.

Bootstrapping a one-person software business is a long and winding road.

We're just over half way through 2021 so I thought I'd post an update about the projects I'm working on right now. tl;dr: music apps, a new game, and a micro-SaaS app.

Recently I hit a milestone.

The word "meme" was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene.

In 2020 I made $693 USD from side projects.

I've been working on a free hand-doodled roguelike graphics tileset called Doodle Rogue.