Month: November 2018

In which I try to express the weird joy I felt learning about all the odd quirks of the simple task of turning bytes into characters, and characters into bytes. Slides: Interesting Characters slides

Series: Snake in Elm, Elm makes me happy, Elm Basics, Elm Unit Test, Elm JSON With up-to-date examples, and anecdotes from the last couple of years of continuing to enjoy writing web pages in Elm, here’s a new version of my Elm advert: Slides: Elm ma…

Series: 2D Shapes, drag and drop, new objects My Godot 3 game is progressing, and I am starting to think I am actually writing the level editor. Here’s how I wrote code to make new versions of existing objects (by converting them to scenes): Godot ve…

I am writing a CharsetEncoder in Java, which is my kind of fun. I was getting a mysterious error when I identified that I could not encode certain characters: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at java.nio.Buffer.position(Bu…

Series: 2D Shapes, drag and drop, new objects Continuing to explore the Godot 3 game engine. I want to make a game where you drag blocks around and balance them on each other, but I couldn’t find much documentation on how to drag-and-drop objects (exce…

Series: 2D Shapes, drag and drop, new objects In which I make a square and a triangle bounce on a rectangle using Godot 3: Godot version: v3.0.6.stable.official.8314054