andyvanee

Like many other Hollow Knight fans, I awaited the release of Silksong for years. According to my steam stats, I have over 500 hours into the original game and anticipated being taken in by a much larger map and the downright gorgeous art and music of the game. ...

I’ve finally had some time to pick up WebAssembly a bit more seriously and get some real work done with it. I’ve found that it’s better than expected in some ways, but has it’s challenges. Lets dive in! ...

“DON’T PANIC” - are the words printed in bold letters across the cover of The Hitchiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. I don’t think there could be any better motto for our time. ...

I’ve recently been working on a project that uses WebSockets as a core mechanic. These are my thoughts… For starters, an event-driven architecture all the way from Server to UI brings some interesting features. Most notably, it allows you to think about the app as a single one-way rendering flow. ...

Deconstruct 2017 is over, and I’m still processing a lot of what I heard, but I did want to get a few notes down while the ideas are fresh. ...

I had an idea as I was driving today. It seems so obvious that I’m sure it has some fundamental flaw. Either that, or someone is already working on it. I’m writing this only in the hopes that a Chemist or Biologist can explain to me how I’m wrong and why I’m wrong. ...

I’ve really been enjoying working my way through the code challenges at http://adventofcode.com/. My solutions are here: https://github.com/andyvanee/adventofcode I’m now on day 8, and the examples have ranged from very easy to pretty involved, but none have been devilishly complicated or tricky. ...

I’d like to document a problem that I’ve never had before, and the solution I arrived at. It was not a real complicated problem, but I got hung up on an even simpler problem. ...

This may come across as a rant, but I’m hoping I can keep this as objective as possible: I don’t like frameworks. I’m going to use a broad definition of frameworks defined like this: ...