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Gulp.js – an AMAZING build system!


Every once in a while, I learn something new that makes me just really happy to be a programmer. Recently, I started building a single-page javascript game, and discovered gulp.js, a build system where you write your build...

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  • March 10, 2014
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Games
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Cubone, the worst Pokemon


I’ve had this conversation a few times recently with my friends, and felt the need to share it with the wider world. So look at this guy: That’s a Cubone. The skull he wears? That’s the skull of his dead mother...

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  • February 22, 2014
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Coding
Coding

Rage-quit support for fish shell


I ran across a fantastically entertaining tweet this morning, advertising “rage-quit support for bash”: It’s hilarious and silly and excellent, except it only works in bash. If you run a less-common shell...

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  • February 21, 2014
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Projects
Projects

Is scarcity alone valuable? A social experiment.


Rare wines can cost thousands of dollars a bottle. Rare sports cards still fetch hundreds of dollars each. And in a disaster situation, scarce survival items like candles and generators appreciate in price remarkably. Clearly,...

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  • February 12, 2014
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Life
Life

Game over. New game?


Two years. Six major content releases. Twelve major event releases. The glorious return of tournaments. The less-than-glorious internationalization and Chinese launch (and then shutdown). Dozens of new mice, hundreds of new...

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Games
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Online-only games are the future


You may not like it, and I may not like it either, but it’s true. You’ve probably heard about the rocky launch of the SimCity reboot. If not, here’s the skinny: EA shoehorned online-only DRM onto SimCity and...

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  • March 7, 2013
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Coding
Coding

Functional vs. Object-Oriented PHP


I was asked a seemingly-innocuous question lately that actually turned out to be pretty interesting: “Do you do much object-oriented programming in PHP, like design patterns?” (I’m paraphrasing, actually, I am...

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  • January 14, 2013
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Wait, nothing’s wrong?


I recently read a tweet that really set me to thinking: Nothing is quite so shocking as writing code which runs fine the first time. — cliffski (@cliffski) January 8, 2013 I’ve had this same thought many, many times...

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  • January 13, 2013
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First-World Problems

Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.


Just a head’s up – don’t use eBay to sell anything. Save yourself the time, effort, and money. That’s the tl;dr. But here’s the rest of the story: So the iPhone 5 was coming out, and I very carefully...

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Design

Board game idea: Insider Trading


When I was younger, I enjoyed an afternoon playing the board game “Stock Ticker”. It was a new concept to me (no board to travel around), it dealt with money (and getting rich), and I was playing it with some really...

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I'm a senior full-stack developer living in Toronto, Ontario and working for Diligen. Further details about my work history are available at Stack Overflow Careers.

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