The Great Office Move of 2024
I have just moved out of my old "proper office" and into a new garden studio. Here's why and how!
Author: Ross Wintle
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Lots of new things
I haven’t written for a while. I haven’t been creative in many ways of late. Not the normal ways anyway. Most of my coding projects are stalled. I’ve not been doing much deeper thinking about things. So what have I been doing? Well, mainly, I’ve been: So yes, lots of change. I’ll keep this post […]
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Static not-Scrabble.
I made a server-less Scrabble clone that saves data in URLs. This post explains why and how, including a primer on binary data representations, and a little JavaScript library to help do this using BigInts!
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Readable code tips: Don’t inline everything!
There is a balance to be found between "inlining" multiple expressions, and using temporary variables. You may also learn about short-circuit evaluation here!
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Readable code tips: Extract complex conditions
Refactoring complex conditions to make them more readable and easier to work with.
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Trusting code
You kinda have a relationship with code from your projects. You probably have feelings about it. As I've been thinking about code style, I've also been thinking about how it's important to build up trust in a code base.
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What if we were transitioning TO Electric Vehicles?
What if we were in some alternate universe, considering moving FROM battery EV's to petrol/diesel-powered transport? What would our objections be there?
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Readable code tips: Introduction
Poor code readability slows us down. So I'm going to post some of my code-readability tips! This is an introduction with the ideas behind it and all the caveats.
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npm-free LiveReload(ish): Simple scripts for asset watching and auto-reload in the browser
A super simple asset-watching script and "LiveReload" functionality. All fitting with my values. Let's see what it looks like!
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A manifesto for small, static, web apps
I’m having a lot of fun building small, static web apps. And there are certain principles I’m trying to stick to as I do it. Let’s see what they are… What is a manifesto anyway? As I started writing this, I asked myself: “Is this actually a manifesto? What is a manifesto?” But the definition […]