Written by Remy Sharp
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on Oct. 2, 2020
Posting this mostly to help some future developer if they run into this issue or even myself after falling down a rabbit hole only to come up empty.The short version: what are colours anyway 🤷♀On the side I've been working on some tools to help with graphic imports into my ZX Spectrum Next. The or…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Sep. 30, 2020
Title is a bit misleading, but this tool gives a complete diff of the changes between versions.This is especially useful when you want to vet a potential upgrade to a core package in a project, to understand what and why.Or equally to look at a vulnerability fix to learn from the changes.Source: di…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Sep. 24, 2020
I really like this idea and more power to those of us who have full control of our online identities....an idea struck me: what if I could see all the outbound links on my blog?I'm using markdown-it (where as Jim Nielsen is using marked) so I can definitely hook into the parser to generate all my…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Sep. 24, 2020
With async/await becoming standard procedure for a lot of my code, I find myself wrapping blocks of code in try/catch to ensure I'm handling errors properly.As a result of this, I also try to make my errors a little more useful at the same that I want to show you in this mini post.The exampleI have…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Sep. 18, 2020
For the most part I use layer 2 (L2) for my projects on the Spectrum Next, so when I wanted to start incorporating layer 1 (L1) there were some surprises waiting for me.Context: Layer 2Layer 2 is 256x192 pixels with 256 colour support and 2 palettes (with an available colour palette of 512 colours)…
Written by Remy Sharp
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on Sep. 10, 2020
In my work and side projects I make use of bit manipulation and maths. One function I use a great deal is the modulo operator, in JavaScript it's %, so if I wanted to know if an X coordinate on an 8x8 tiled grid is in a movable position, I would use if (x % 8 === 0), so when x is 192, the result is…