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Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 30, 2020
Heydon Pickering this last weekend released a redesign to their web site and upon visiting it, the contents prompted a series of interesting thoughts and ideas to run riot through my mind.The URL is https://heydonworks.com and it (currently) looks like this:Seeing Heydon's redesign prompted me to…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 23, 2020
For the last few weeks I've had a mostly working version of the game logic for Marbles2 on the Spectrum Next. One of goals I wanted in place was to be able to share high scores and to get remote high scores from an online service.There's a number problems presented with this. First of all, to share…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 15, 2020
This last week I scheduled a week off of work. My second week of the year which given how 2020 has gone was rather not enough. Around mid October I had a bit of an episode in the middle of the night which culminated in me passing out and when I came back round all that was going round my head was:…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 8, 2020
I've been making super minor changes since I started this game, focusing mostly on getting the blocks to drop in a way that doesn't halt the entire game play.Since the game is (currently) written in NextBASIC the maths and logic to check which blocks to drop and how far is pretty intensive even whe…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 6, 2020
I know about CSS's text-overflow: ellipsis but it nearly never works first time for me. I totally missed that the property needs two other properties in play against the element:overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;It's that second one, the white-space I always forget!Originally published on Remy…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Nov. 4, 2020
An excellent dissection of The Social Dilemma, a programme on Netflix that I've not been particularly interested in watching, partly because I'm fairly aware of how badly we've messed up our privacy, but also correct, it would seem, I avoided because of the self rewarding Silicon Valley boys claimi…