Brian Douglas

When compiled (transpiled?)

I've been writing lots of small html canvas games recently, and each time have to write some key handling code.

Let's start with the first one "my skillset is no longer important".

tar -xvf jdk.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /opt/java sudo mv jdk /opt/java/ echo "export JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/jdk" >> ~/.profile echo "export PATH=\"$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\"" >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile java --version javac --version echo $JAVA_HOME

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The article in question was a rant on the prevalence of Tailwind Templates in slop apps and vaporware.

So to prove my point, I went on to hacker news and searched for "Show HN".

This year what caught my interest were three observations the writer made on the impact of AI.

Today both sites consist of links along the lines of "how AI affects my fragile bubble", "promote my new useless sas project", or "I'm ditching x for y".

Really it's a variation on the classic game Asteroids.

This brings us to today's post.

Well fast forward to 2026 and I am taking time away from said industry in order to get to grips with Sheep farming.

You can read the full newsletter at gamedevjsweekly.com This time a game I made in 2023 has been included in the newsletter.

Converting degrees to radians function degToRad(deg) { return deg * (Math.PI / 180) } If you find yourself calling it alot or constantly looking for 90 degrees as radians.

You can read the full newsletter at gamedevjsweekly.com GameDev.js is a community focused on creating games for the web.

The Promise All these awful slop apps start off with a promise.

Writing code is fun, and writing games in JS is a joy.

There was a time when Github offered an excellent product.

I'm a farmer as well as a software engineer.

What is it?

In my most recent use case I set up a hook to deploy this blog when I push to master.

If an index is not present on the table which the select is being used on a filesort may be performed.

This code is generated by an AI model.

Why generics?

The OpenGraph protocol is used to supply information about web pages in a predictable format.

The trailing slash matters Take these two examples: rsync -av source/ dest/ rsync -av source dest/ The first copies the contents of source into dest, the second source into dest.

Source for this can be found on adoptium.net cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/adoptium.repo [Adoptium] name=Adoptium baseurl=https://packages.adoptium.net/artifactory/rpm/${DISTRIBUTION_NAME:-$(.

By wheel spin I mean, starting projects and not finishing them, lot's of personal development, and exploration into different tech, AI assisted ofcourse.

Only the LLM can be trusted to write code.

The plan going forward is to have multiple Decks that a user can chose from.

Hosting your own blog will give you a good idea of how the web works, and help hone you devops skills.

import traceback result = 0 try: with open("d6.txt", "r") as f: lines = [line for line in f.readlines()] symbols = [v.strip() for v in lines[-1] if v.strip()] results = [] # phase 1 for numbers in lines[:-1]:

import traceback ranges = [] ids = [] result = 0 try: with open("d5.txt", "r") as f: in_ids = False for line in f.readlines(): if not line.strip(): in_ids = True elif in_ids: id…

import traceback def has_symbol(x, y, grid, symbol): return grid[y][x] == symbol def get_neighbour_count(x, y, grid): neighbours = 0 row_count = len(grid) col_count = len(grid[0]) if y > 0 and has_symbol(x, y - 1, grid, "@"): # above

import traceback result = 0 try: with open("day3-input.txt", "r") as f: for line in f.readlines(): line = line.strip() if not line: continue start = 0 found = [] for i

import traceback result = 0 try: with open("day2-input.txt", "r") as f: for line in f.readlines(): line = line.strip() if not line: continue ranges = line.split(",") for r in ran…

2025 was different for me in that I have been seeking out something to specialise in.

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #define MAX_LINE_LENGTH 99 int main() { int result = 50; int password = 0; FILE *f; char line[MAX_LINE_LENGTH]; const char *filename = "day1-input.txt"; f = fopen(filename, "r"); if(f ==…

As of writing, 0.12 is the dev release.

Things have been super hectic over the last few months.

The script caches the tarball, so I can switch version easily if needed.

This was particularly prevalent in my last role.

Give the mise project a like on github: jdx/mise Need a certain node version?

Why not just use an ORM?

Features Views: Register, render, or remove named template views.

I've expanded on my last post to make it a more full featured engine.

I'm not evening going to bother with a proposed usage or a detailed explantation of what is going, because it's so straight forward that it would be a waste of time.

Whats an object field validator?

My implementation allows for flags that are domain specific.