Month: September 2016
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Mousedown events delayed or sluggish on mobile
I am learning about Elm and web apps by writing a little game called sootl. It’s all SVGs animated with requestAnimationFrame(), and you control your player by clicking or touch the screen. Everything seemed good on desktop browsers, but on mobile it t…
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How to write a programming language – Part 1, The Lexer
Series: Lexer, Parser, Evaluator I wrote a little programming language, Cell which is supposed to be simple enough to help explain how a programming language works. Here’s the explanation of the lexer, which is the first part of a compiler or interpret…
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Simple example of Netty 4 usage
I feel the title of this post over-promises, since I was not able to make an example that seemed simple to me. Anyway, here is a near-minimal example of how to use Netty to make a server that shouts back at you whatever you say: NettyExample.java:impor…