I’m running a workshop at the Egham Raspberry Jam on 21st October. The workshop will introduce my little animation language Graft. We will tell a story using animations that we created ourselves using code. The worksheet for the workshop is here: PDF or ODP. I reproduced it as…
Read More Because the Rapsberry Pi uses a slightly older Python version, there is a special version of Graft for it. Here’s how to get it: Open a terminal window by clicking the black icon with a “>” symbol on it at the top near the left. First we need…
Read More October 19, 2018 [Elm, Programming, Tech] Series: Snake in Elm, Elm makes me happy, Elm Basics, Elm Unit Test, Elm JSON I find JSON decoding in Elm confusing, so here are some thoughts and examples. Setup $ elm --version 0.19.0 $ mkdir myproj; cd myproj $ elm init…
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Read More November 08, 2018 [Games, Godot, Programming, Programming Languages, Videos] Series: 2D Shapes, drag and drop, new objects Continuing to explore the Godot 3 game engine. I want to make a game where you drag blocks around and balance them on each other, but I couldn’t find much documentation…
Read More November 09, 2018 [Java, Programming] I am writing a CharsetEncoder in Java, which is my kind of fun. I was getting a mysterious error when I identified that I could not encode certain characters: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at java.nio.Buffer.position(Buffer.java:244) at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(CharsetEncoder.java:618) at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(CharsetEncoder.java:802) at java.nio.charset.Charset.encode(Charset.java:843) at…
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Read More December 10, 2018 [Uncategorized] I have spent the last few hours investigating abysmal performance in my latest little game project Cross The Road. Firefox was fine, but Chromium and Chrome, especially on mobile, was rendering at about three frames per second. When I stopped using SVGs as background-images…
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