I’m loving all the retro gaming and emulation stuff that’s happening in a big way now (yeah I know it’s not new).
Questions:
– is there any official way to buy ROMs? Will the game owners ever catch on to this? In happy to pay!
– are downloaded ROMs safe? Can they do anything bad?
So here’s a thing.
I like structured communication. Document templates. Emails with headings and executive summaries. Bulleted lists. Meeting agendas.
But… it occurred to me today…
Is this a generational thing?
I really want to get others in my life to see the benefits of it.
But are younger generations (I’m mid forties) just not into this stuff? Is it not actually beneficial for them because they are so adept at unstructured comms?
Wow! This IS a big solar storm. Southern England. We can see aurora with Naked eye despite light pollution. Long exposures working well!!
The Scrabble game logic and scoring is so well ingrained in my muscle memory. But writing it down was really hard!
Not proud of the code that achieved this. It was pretty brute force!
Nooooo!! The Browser Company (Arc) are making…
PAL FROM THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES!!!!
My Scrabblish game now has skip/swap tiles! 🙌
Two more major things to add:
1. Double/triple squares
2. Instructions!
Then the rest is just polishing.
Really happy with how this turned out.
Oh gosh. If there’s one thing more inaccessible than a PDF for school comms that go far and wide to a diverse audience of people with all sorts of devices and IT skills…
My son decided to try randomly typing a game code into the serverless-scrabble thing (games are encoded in URLs).
I mean… it TRIED!!! 😂
(If you want to know what's going on: https://rosswintle.uk/2024/04/static-not-scrabble/)
(If you're bored of all my talk about this… I'm sorry. I made something neat, and I really want people to use it!!!)
Loving working on the serverless Scrabble clone. Nice, intricate logic. Fun to test!
Fixed some simple, but hard-to-find bugs for edge cases tonight. You can now actually play a game right to the end! 🤦♂️
I'm thankful for people playing and reporting bugs! 🙏
Key things to add:
– Skip/swap tiles as a feature
– Double/triple squares on the board
Then it’s kinda complete!
Nice to haves:
– Some drag-and-drop or keyboard entry
– Some instructions
– Better UI/design
Saw this hilarious game on Taskmaster season 12.
I think I know what my next turn-based web game will be! 😂
Forget social media and video games…
… I’m gonna get such a dopamine hit when a bird finally uses my new bird feeder.
😂🐦🐦🐦
This news story is a near-perfect Ross cross-over of:
– Grammar policing
– IT system ridiculousness
– Over-enthusiastic NIMBYism
North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
Oh dear. How awfully (or wonderfully!) middle aged am I now.
I have a preferred toothpaste brand.
And I’m buying bird feeders and watching the birds in my garden.
😂
Nice to see Chris being productive. I like the “right tools for the job” message here!
Launching New Sites on Astro
https://chriswiegman.com/2024/05/launching-new-sites-on-astro/
Ooof. Shots fired on the weekly satirical news quiz show…
“I haven’t been to Rwanda, but I’ve been to Swindon. We should threaten to send asylum seekers there. That would put them off coming.”
How long have I been a professional programmer?
Over 25 years. That’s how long.
What was I doing today?
Debating the relative merits of the following:
if (title)
if (Boolean(title))
if (title !== undefined)
if ((typeof title) != null)
if (title ?? ‘’)
I’m not sure if this is because of my experience, or despite it! 😬
UK Politics
Holy Moly. Just over a year ago my council was Conservative controlled. Labour claimed it last year. There's now 41 Labour councillors and 15 Conservative!
This was a "Labour hold", but in reality the Tories have been truly demolished over the last two local elections.
Now THIS is a game of Backgammon!
TIL what the most dangerous animal (measured by how many people are killed by them) in the UK is.
VERY interesting!
Lol. Pop quiz for web dev nerds:
Why might you suddenly start seeing Stripe test card failures today?