Month: September 2020
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Play and create little retro games at Smolpxl
I love simple games: playing them and writing them. But, it can be overwhelming getting started in the complex ecosystems of modern technology. So, I am writing the Smolpxl library, which is some JavaScript code that makes it quite simple to write simp…
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shareon.js.org now has a Share to Mastodon button
I was looking for the right way to make a “Share This”-style button for my tiny games site Smolpxl, and I found shareon which worked exactly the way I wanted (load the JavaScript and call a function to display the buttons, with no privacy concerns), an…
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Coding a tiny game in JavaScript video
I’m working on a little JavaScript library called Smolpxl. It aims to make it really easy to create retro-style pixellated games that run well in the browser, using simple JavaScript. This is me live-streaming writing a tiny “game” using Smolpxl: To …
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short – command line tool to truncate lines to fit in the terminal
Sometimes I run grep commands that search files with hugely-long lines. If those lines match, they are printed out and spam my terminal with huge amounts of information, that I probably don’t need. I couldn’t find a tool that limits the line-length of …