Hour one was installation and patching. It was actually pretty fast. One of the first things you notice about Star Citizen, in Alpha (1.34) as I write this, is how incredibly polished and solid the supporting website, signup process, and…
A long time ago there was a thread on the Cheetah 3D forums linked to a gallery image named “Death takes a pawn”. I loved the idea, and did one of my own. It’s one of the images that is…
Given that it is the bedrock of the web, it’s surprisingly hard to find tools for improving HTML. It took me quite some time to find an HTML linter that even worked, and it doesn’t do a lot. Recently, I…
If you read my blog much, you’ll probably find occasional discussions of b8r to be pretty positive compared to the blowtorch I tend to turn on most things I discuss. Weird, huh? So, after nearly two months of trying to…
Thanks to COVID, I find myself in the unusual position (since the 90s, at least) of playing games quite soon after they come out. I literally bought Mass Effect: Legendary Edition within days of release (after a brief “should I…
So, I am once again able to use b8r for my day-job, which means I get to smooth rough edges for production (some of which I handled at Airtime, but that was pre import and nowhere near as slick as…
One of my favorite engineering one-liners is “good, fast, cheap: pick two”. Everything in engineering is a trade-off, and this one-liner encapsulates it beautifully. It’s even the subject of research papers. However, my argument for bindinator is that it gets…
I recently became aware that Nova (Panic’s next gen replacement for Coda) has been out since September, and decided to give it a quick spin. Now, I’m currently working on an internal IDE that runs in Chrome so this is…
b8r 0.5.0 is available from npm and github. See the github-pages demo here. It’s the single most radical change to b8r since it was first released, although unlike the switch from require() to ES6 Modules it’s non-breaking, so I’ve updated…
Today, if you’re working at a big tech company, the chances are that working on a web application is something like this: You’re building an app that comprises a list view and a detail view with some editing, and for…