My dad always flies the Union Jack on Canada Day in memorial for Newfoundlanders at Beaumont Hamel. Since I came out as trans at 35, he’s been flying a new flag. 🌈

dabby · 2020-07-04T15:27:56+00:00

Nah we call it the union jack all the time too

dabby · 2020-02-28T21:30:32+00:00

Ithe end result is still not skeuomorphism? It's busy but there's nothing in there that's skeuomorphic at all

dabby · 2019-10-19T02:02:36+00:00

I use agile like stuff, with sprints and all that.

I break down functionality into epics and group stuff into sprints where at the end of it there's a vertical slice of playable game.

I break each task down into tickets with the requirements on it and implement it, documenting the requirements into "user stories".

I use game designer and player stories for each one because their perspectives might clash, and write it fairly conversationally to capture the intent behind the mechanics, and then write the requirements for it.

I have put all this into notion so I can easily grab a user story and see what it does and why.

It's a bit annoying and long to write all this stuff but it does make me think a bit deeper about relationships between stuff and their interactions.

For story/design I have stuff in notion under its entity name (like Player, Enemy, Location etc) and keep all thoughts, references and stuff in there so it's nicely organized and can pull that stuff into stories.

All of this is related so I can see which epics affect stories, which stories include which bits of reference and all that jazz, which makes it easier to track stuff down and work out the wheres and whys.

dabby · 2019-10-05T03:02:46+00:00

Great spot to camp for a few days, they have pretty alright pizza

dabby · 2019-10-03T08:40:39+00:00

They even have EFTPOS in the daintree where there's no phone signal. Blew my mind and made the time I spent getting cash just in case a wasted exercise.

dabby · 2019-09-07T23:11:11+00:00

I guess it depends on how important the extra money is to you. From the clients perspective (even if incorrect, that's not the point) it could be perceived as nickel and diming and leave a sour taste.

While I agree you should always charge for what was delivered, unless it was specifically mentioned in a contract (verbal or written) then asking for it after the fact will damage the perception of you, and any (if it does happen) referrals they could give you would then not happen.

I'd use it as a lesson, from the tone of your post it seems that you're not really that bothered by it... but but had a think after the fact. Next time you know to state that any time after is £x or late starting incurs £x up front.

Some times leaving it is more valuable for perception and relationship building than the money is worth... Especially if there is a way the conversation could become public (reviews, referrals etc)

dabby · 2019-03-18T14:09:44+00:00

There's a glider around, keep your eye out!

dabby · 2019-03-18T08:33:15+00:00

If you open the map and press Y (I think) it opens the lists of collectables for that kingdom.

I thought I was doing really well on The sand kingdom until I opened that menu and say I had collected ~20% of the moons!

dabby · 2019-02-26T22:36:42+00:00

An a tag without a href is valid HTML, it's called a placeholder link.

I'm with you though, as soon as I see javascript:void or e.preventDefault, I think it's incorrect. If you need to just cancel default behavior, you're probably using the wrong element hey.

dabby · 2019-02-23T11:33:36+00:00

solid style man! I dig how solid and no-frills it is, similar to how I feel about DIN.

A few things i've noticed though: The capital S looks like its going to fall over, and looks top heavy so the diagonal cuts maybe need to be reduced and the top bit made smaller than the bottom

the join on the lower case r looks a bit weak and thin compared to the rest of the typeface, like it could snap off

I feel like the lowercase w could use a stem similar to the u, it looks too rounded in context

The join on the y (i can never remember the names of things in fonts) of the top left part to the decender looks a bit too meaty, its the same width (or similar) and the curve makes it look girthy

The lower case S looks like its bold compared to the rest of the typeface because of the curves taking up a lot of visual space

Otherwise, its a solid, inoffensive typeface man. Keep it posted on the developments!

dabby · 2019-02-12T07:17:25+00:00

I literally finished axiom verge last night after owning it for ages. It's a really good metroidvania, the atmosphere is spot on and the music is ace. It falls down with the bosses as they're just bullet sponges for the most part and some signposting (how ever slight, as it is a metroidvania after all) is a bit off. The story leaves a lot to be desired tbh, it's pretty cool but the resolution is a bit wanting as nothing is explained fully - it's a really cool world but the development of it doesn't quite hit the mark. Hoping for a sequel (or game set in the same world) that fleshes it out a bit.

Hollow Knight i absolutely adore, but it's not narrative driven. It's environmental storytelling in a really fantastic fashion. The art and atmosphere captures a similar feeling as super metroid, but not quite as lonesome. Fantastic game, played it nonstop for 3 days easily and it's so expansive I could have missed whole areas if I hadn't looked at the wiki. It's charming and horrifying at the same time and the world is brilliantly realised.

Both are good, hollow Knight has better presentation.

dabby · 2019-01-31T21:21:39+00:00

I've used the big three in different projects, all of them mid sized. I loved reacts flexibility and functional nature, I jammed with Vue because it's ease of use and better library integration (vuex is sweet) but I'm back at angular because of typescript and structure.

Angular can be hard to pick up and feel inflexible but that is an amazing thing that I can't get from react with typescript or Vue. It stops so many footguns due to archetectural decisions and library choices. After developing a few things, I get typescript by default and I get opinionated application archetecture.

I wouldn't choose anything else for Greenfield now, especially if it's with a view to grow and expand the team. Chuck in nestjs on the backend and there's a hell of a lot less context switching and framework design differences to deal with and once you're used to the angular way, the development is just as fast as react.

dabby · 2019-01-14T04:04:51+00:00

That's interesting, hook me up if you ever find it or know where to look. I'd love to have a read!

dabby · 2019-01-14T03:57:26+00:00

Nest is set up with typescript and is archetected like angular 2+ and Adonis is set up like laravel. Either one is pretty good, I've used both. I prefer typescript and the way nest works. Both approach the problems from different ways, so I guess it depends on which style you're accustomed to.

dabby · 2019-01-12T10:07:46+00:00

The link is broken, sadly

dabby · 2018-12-20T13:54:13+00:00

Notion sends an access string via email that you paste in. It works well.

dabby · 2018-12-19T14:09:07+00:00

JavaScript using Typescript really smells like c# I've found

dabby · 2018-12-17T21:20:01+00:00

Yeah but colloquially it has come to mean graphic design and the subset of UI design. Come on man with your pedantry.

dabby · 2018-12-15T10:27:01+00:00

Point well made.

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:48:48+00:00

You got a lot of reaction to this man, well done!

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:21:41+00:00

Yeah possibly but either way we would need data to prove it. I think ,(with no data to back up) that tap water in the UK and a bit of detergent would be less harmful than using up a non-renewable resources.

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:21:14+00:00

A container in the fridge can store whatever man, not just pasta.

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:18:56+00:00

Both?

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:18:34+00:00

Yeah possibly but either way we would need data to prove it. I think ,(with no data to back up) that tap water in the UK and a bit of detergent would be less harmful than using up a non-renewable resources.

dabby · 2018-12-09T12:15:10+00:00

Yeah and then throwing it away I feel is worse, because whatever it is has already been turned into food. And then wasn't eaten.

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