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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
Teens wrote me a secret. I found them.
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Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library
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Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder
A version of Flappy Bird that runs entirely inside MacOS Finder. It runs at 4 frames a second! That's a lot of frames!!
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Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim
There's no reason I should exit vim just to watch a video
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Put the DVD logo in the corner (2023)
A blog about making a game to achieve my childhood dream (of getting the DVD logo in the corner)
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Running Pong in 240 browser tabs
What should you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I ran pong in mine.
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Scaling One Million Checkboxes to 650M checks
How I scaled One Million Checkboxes to handle half a million users
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BreakTime: Running Breakout inside Google Calendar
A version of brickbreaker inside google calendar - your meetings are bricks, and the game declines them when you smash them!
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Are two heads better than one?
A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game
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Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar
A version of Wordle that runs inside the Firefox address bar via abuse of the Opensearch spec.
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Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process
How one million chessboards works
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Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
I couldn't remember every UUID so I wrote them all down