I am in a shocking mood, have been since yesterday. Something about this quarantine has amplified The Sad through the roof as it has for many.
Trying to keep distracted or at least entertained, but mostly trying to look after myself.
Oh. I just came 1st in COD Modern Warfare * dabs * for the first time.
Might try to implement GZIP in js for kicks.
Updated my scrabble clone to show scores on the letters and do scoring a bit differently. The scores still don’t depend on the order in which words were played which keeps the score counting fairly simple but I feel like it takes the fun out of extended words slightly to gain a lot of points.
More iteration needed!
I got my new scrabble game up and running! The first live game is this one and I’m not sure if big URLs are handled well by… well anything but I guess we’ll find out soon :D
Really stressful week this week, not least because of some difficult family-related news so I’m keeping distracted with projects.
Started learning Korean again.
Few projects on the go: link scrabble, joto weather app (in theory), nomad, game engine for terminal-based games (germinal). Lots to be getting on with this weekend anyway.
Spent all evening working on my latest game - a scrabble clone that is 100% in the browser but not p2p. It runs on URLs and a tonne of good ol’-fashioned trust.
Mostly for my friends/family but I’ll put it up for the public anyway.
In theory my nginx logs will be enough to replay any game from any point :D
Also, I feel like noting that all of my dev work today was done inside an instance of nomad, which is just a joy to use. It’s now my default terminal at home.
I MUST do a blog at some point shouting about how good it is.
Next up I want to get the raw log, and maybe my other blog to a point where people can subscribe via email to get updates.
I’ve set up haraka in the cloud before, it could be fun to make some kind of generic system that watched my hugo blog pages for updates and sent emails to people who had subscribed to changes on those pages.
I think I’m ready to deploy all of this new stuff.
Hugo is awesome, I’m deploying a new blog format to my site less than 3h since I started making it.
I’ve spent all day trying going down rabbit holes on purpose to make sure all of my git aliases are nice and shiny. And everything is committed to https://github.com/lukebarnard1/config so that I can pull it onto my work machine. Much excite.
Now I can do stuff like
# add new files for adding during interactive mode
alias gan='git add -N .'
# skip git add -p when commiting patches, and show
# the diff for each patch
alias gc='git commit -vp'
I am writing a new log with a new hugo command that I wrote
to make writing logs trivial hugo new log/$(dateu).md --editor="vim", where dateu is an alias that outputs the current date.
alias dateu='date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'