Keeping my monitor brightness after power save and switch
I wrote a script restoring my monitor’s brightness and gamma, after power savings and dynamic switches, in Ubuntu 22.04 with udev and xrandr.
Building a Halloween riddle game
A look at my personal weekend game jam project, including the new animations and challenges I faced.
System Architecture for Edaqa’s Room
An overview of all the deployed components in my multiplayer game
Highly inefficient invisible animations (CSS/Firefox/Chrome/React)
Reducing the CPU load of Firefox and Chrome due to invisible CSS animations
High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python websockets
Tracking an error in my game, stressing over a fix, and the code to replace it all
What I look for while play-testing
Tracking and evaluating individuals playing my game.
How to write a custom selector in React
Recreating useSelector for an app that doesn’t use Redux.
I Wrote an Online Escape Game
I’m an escape room enthusiast, some may say addict, and for the past few months I’ve been missing it. A friend of mine, a true
Your 30th Year in Code
Becoming a programmer can be a daunting task. After reading Your First Year in Code, you might wonder what awaits you long term. My book,
Why switch is better than if-else
In Ben’s post, he questions whether switch statements are cleaner than if-else chains. I contend they are, because they better express the semantics of the
Fluid layout animation: Invalidation and caching
Dynamic changes in layout properties, either because of user actions, or animations, requires a recalculation of the layout. Maintaining a stable frame rate during recalculation
Creating a custom author box on WordPress
How to use custom short-codes to create an author-box in a template.