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The barrier to entry is… gone?

What I wanted (and why) I'm on Windows primarily for my normal day to day… I know this is considered weird for many developers.

The problem VRAM is King!

The Myth of a full-time "strategizing manager" For a small team in a startup environment strategizing isn't an 8-hour day 5 days a week.

What you need before you start A Cloudflare account (free) A domain you can point to Cloudflare A machine/container inside your network to run cloudflared The local URL of the service you want to expose (like http://localhost:5678) The Scenario I've been…

The Problem Your working away at your amazing or not so amazing job, pushing branches, comitting code, doing awesome things in general, when you realize….

The Problem Recently I found myself in between jobs so I had some time on my hands to work on a few of my projects I've let languish over the past few years.

I've been on a weird archiving kick lately, most recently downloading all of my gog installers for example and storing them locally and on a backup drive.

Deep copying / cloning in JavaScript tldr; structuredClone Copying by value or reference Before we talk about deep cloning let's take a step back and talk about passing by value or by reference.

Came across this tweet inspired me to try my hand at it with JS/CSS.

Needed a pretty quick toggle for a project I was working on, definitely could have copied one of the hundreds of toggles out there that exist, but what's the fun in that?

Years ago I made some novelty sites with php/apache that used the subdomain to display different messages to the user, I decided to remake one of them using node and wanted to share how this could be done, it was much simpler than I thought it would be.

I have neglected to write for a while, have worked at 3 different jobs since my last post and things have finally settled down.

aka My Cheat Sheet of Helpful Code I created a blog post way back title Game Snippets I Always Forget.

Screenshot from scrolling terrain and shooting stars demo on codepen.io In a few of my demos I've used 2d terrain.

This explanation doesn't show any code more of just an overview of how to achieve a simple but cool looking effect.

I've been furloughed from my job (government contractor) so I've had a bit of free time on my hands the last 2 weeks.

There's a really interesting competition the creator of jsbin is running.

I was checking out some old books the other day and I came across Commodore Step by Step Graphics Vol 3.

Wanted to share an interesting yet simple project I created the other day.

Wow, so its been a while since I've posted anything.

I've seen a few questions on Stackoverflow lately dealing with how to smoothly move an object around on the canvas.

Went a little crazy with a friend of mines bookmarklet he made that would randomly change the colors of all elements on a page.

Repo on Github Download jQuery Snowfall 1.6 View the plugin in action You can now use images for snowflakes!

I decided to create a small project this weekend, using node, and nodejitsu.com.

So I have been really into wave sims lately.

My son Jacob decided to learn how to program.

I read this great article on creating 2d metaballs with XNA.

This is something I've been looking to do for the longest time.

I've been coming up with small games and demos using canvas for a couple of years now, and over that time I've created a framework for doing so.

Messing around in JS today (surprising eh?)

In my attempt to make a post weekly figured I would post some progress on my current project, which is a side project for the shmup I'm working on.

Its crazy how much of a difference music and sounds make.

Posting this for archival purposes.

Posting my most current project (well my most current that happens to be cool anyway).

Was pretty stressful trying to make this in a day (especially since I did a full workday at my day job as well!).

This is kind of a random post, but its something I ran into this week on vacation after getting a copy of Soldout Softwares Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion pack.

Just started messing with realtime 2d raycasting for lighting today, used a pretty good code example from facepunch.com/threads/1011659.

Decided to give grinding a pumpkin a shot instead of the usual carving, and this was my inaugural attempt.

So I realized I have never posted anything on here about my gaming habits.

The idea is *heavily* inspired by a JS1K demo submission that was done by @daisyowl.

Just released my second live wallpaper, Guts and Goo Used libgdx along with the libgdx live wallpaper backend.

Check out the new version here, with the ability to add images to snowflakes!

Below is what I ended up settling on for an entry for the JS1k.

So I decided to try out webkits css3 animations.

Newer version available Added a few new things, you can now make flakes rounded (Thanks Luke), and give them shadows (for lighter colored pages) - thanks for the idea Yutt.

Wanted to submit something that was just graphical this time around so I worked on a 3D Christmas Tree for my submission.

Newer version available Fixed a quick bug in the snowfall script, and added an example usage file in the download.

Needed the date picker in a project today and noticed it doesn't integrate well with jQuery UI's icons, if trying to use an icon to open the calendar rather than an input.

Well I got a Kindle 3 for my birthday today, I had one last year for a little bit but had to give it back to work, since then I've found myself wanting another.