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! š¤¦āāļø
I'm thankful for people playing and reporting bugs! š
Key things to add:
– Skip/swap tiles as a feature
– Double/triple squares on the board
Then itās 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! š
Forget social media and video gamesā¦
ā¦ Iām gonna get such a dopamine hit when a bird finally uses my new bird feeder.
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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 Iām buying bird feeders and watching the birds in my garden.
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Nice to see Chris being productive. I like the āright tools for the jobā 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 showā¦
āI havenāt been to Rwanda, but Iāve been to Swindon. We should threaten to send asylum seekers there. That would put them off coming.ā
How long have I been a professional programmer?
Over 25 years. Thatās 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 ?? āā)
Iām not sure if this is because of my experience, or despite it! š¬
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?
Excellent video from @briancoords on #WordPress dot-com (!) Studio that clarifies what it is and debunks what it is not.
Opens work Slack to check for alerts.
Not really any alerts. But oh my, someone let off a Slack bomb and I can see my whole morning draining away before my eyes.
People with publicly visible tattoosā¦ how do you feel about people asking about them? Is it annoying? Or do you like it ā¦ is that the point?
Thinking that, at some point, when I have some more time. I'd like to revive my Beyond WP newsletter/blog.
In some ways it makes sense that the WordPress news is all about WordPress. But there's SO much going on elsewhere in tech that's cool and I think more WP developers should developers should be looking outside the WordPress ecosystem and there doesnāt seem to be anything that caters for this.
Have been playing my little Scrabble-like game with some play testers.
Itās a static, serverless, single-page app. And the absolute beauty of not having to log in is just brilliant.
I can click a game link in any browser on any computer and Just Play.
I want to make more stuff like this.
Backgammon next? That's gotta be super easy to encode.
Game: https://words.pico.games/
Write-up: https://rosswintle.uk/2024/04/static-not-scrabble/
Weekend hacking after @topher1kenobe pointed me at āOttendorf Cyphersā.
Iāve heard about these, though I didnāt remember the name.
Itās a cypher/code where two people have the same book and the code is page/word/letter.
Topher tried to do this with web pages once. I made my own version with bookmarklets.
https://page-cypher.veryuseful.app/
(My original attempt at building something failed because CORS!!!! š¬)
I have discovered a new physical force.
It is a force of strong attraction.
And it seems to exist only between the toes of young children and solid objects at ground level.
Very curious. Physicists should investigate. Thereās a PhD thesis in here somewhere!
I have to say, co-pilot is pretty dang good at giving me simple algorithms for game rules.
Itās written quite a lot of my static scrabble game for me. Simple loops with variations that, yes, I could write myself. But it already did the boring grunt work.
It wrote a better version of āmaybeScoreVerticalWordā than I did!