mattmoss

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Comment · 4 years ago
In Firefox (102.0.1), I see only the bottom-left 25% of the playfield.

In Chrome (103.0.5060.114), after a few attempts, the game became very lagging/low framerate that it was mostly unplayable.

Nice simple clicker!

Comment · 4 years ago
You monster.
Comment · 5 years ago
I currently use Fira Code, and I tried to focus on the text comparisons without consideration of the font names.

I ended up picking Noto Sans Mono by a very slim margin over Fira Code. Interesting...

Comment · 6 years ago
Do Yubikeys have a shelf life? Something akin to a usb flash drive?
Comment · 7 years ago
> That's a problem with specs, the most concise and complete way to write them is by writing your program.

I've never dealt with formal specs/design, certainly nothing like those described here. Your comment (however in/accurate) strikes me as interesting and leads me to wonder...

What if we took the code and processed it to generate a "spec"? (I quote "spec" here b/c I wouldn't consider it a spec, but don't know what else to call it.) Basically, a document that explains verbosely what the written code does... hopefully in a way that is reasonably, humanly digestable.

Then we might get a doc that says, "Function add(...) accepts two integers/nulls and returns the sum." And Joe-coder looks and realizes it shouldn't accept nulls, goes back to the code, fixes the issue.

Comment · 8 years ago
White on orange is not great for readability. Especially the calculation results block which animates from white on orange to white on pale-orange: even less readable.

Otherwise, nice job!

Comment · 8 years ago
Mostly self-taught: BASIC/ASM on a C64 using the Programmer's Reference and Compute!'s Gazette. Taught myself C on a Mac Plus by writing a game over winter break during my first year at university.

There's so much documentation available now (more than was available years ago) for so many open-source and free resources out there.

For me, though, the biggest assist to really learning something is having a project. Whether it's at my employer or a personal thing, a project drives me much better to learn something than documentation alone.

Comment · 8 years ago
I learned C over 1990 Christmas break from university. At home, I programmed my father's Mac Plus and wrote a game similar to Light's Out but on a playfield not a square grid.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it when you are out of beta.
Comment · 11 years ago
No.
Comment · 12 years ago
$199 to survive fiction? More seriously, website doesn't load.
Comment · 12 years ago
Seriously… that's the first thing I searched.

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