How I printed Nintendo E-Reader cards so they work

How do planet cards grow in Balatro?

How do decks increase their scoring in Balatro?

One is the loneliest number

Can we make the CPU drift?

How can you make a CPU car drive around a track in a video game?

Let's take a look at how to work with decimal numbers on an ancient cpu.

Now that I have a finished a big ROM hack, some random thoughts on the process.

How I used MAME's tracing to figure out a how a Neo Geo game works

How I used MAME's Lua integration to greatly improve my retro development experience

Let's see how we can alter a game's logic in part 3 of my Neo Geo ROM hacking guide.

Let's see how we can alter a game's graphics in part 2 of my Neo Geo ROM hacking guide.

Let's get started learning how to make Neo geo ROM hacks.

Here are some tips and a small guide on how to use MAME for debugging more effectively

How I reverse engineered the Super Metroid map with brute force.

When doing something repeatedly in JavaScript, I always use setTimout and never setInterval, here is why

Why is React giving me this strange warning? Ohhhhh...

Need to collect form data? Don't want to stand up a server? You can use Google Drive.

A quick look at how I made a site that has almost no JavaScript, using a JavaScript framework.

Web Assembly lets us bring native applications right into the browser.

By porting a game emulator to Web Assembly, I was able to reach into its memory to build animated gifs.

The Arduboy is an Arduino based game console with very limited storage space.

This article shows some techniques I used to use the space efficiently.

How to use i3 with MATE to get an excellent tiling desktop experience in Linux.

In this final installment, we take a quick look at transactions and how they help React do its job.

Part four implements setState, an important function that drives much of what React does.

This part explores how React updates the DOM after props change.

Today we are looking at how lifecycle methods in React work.

This article series creates a small clone of React to learn how it works. We kick things off with the most basic of rendering.

A strategy for persisting state in a Redux based Electron app.

The Saturn's complex hardware architecture meant implementing semi-transparent entities in a game was challenging.

This interactive article explains the conundrum, and shows why game developers often settled for inferior alternatives.

The browser's dev console can be a nice tool to extract data from a webpage.

JavaScript always passes parameters by value. This post explores what that means.

Using Clojure macros to embed an SVG into a Reagent component.

For the heck of it, I made a simple breakout game with Reagent

A detailed dive into how vectors in ClojureScript work.

Reagent is a ClojureScript interface to React, and it is incredible.

Pair programming can be great, but it can also be terrible.

This article explores when to pair, when not to, and why some of us don't like it.

A detailed article that implements a simple Promise type from scratch.

By building the Promise implementation gradually, it shows the why and how of Promises.

How I used shaders in WebGL to accomplish lighting and shadows in a 2D game.

For a while I woke up early to work on projects before going to work. Here's a quick summary of how it went.