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Recently I have been working on making a simple snake game and wanted to know what my options were for capturing keyboard events other than simply adding event listeners to the body, document, or the window. Amongst the obvious reasons for avoiding adding event listeners globally, I just want to Read more…
A few days ago I was working on manipulating data that I found in Wikipedia. The data was in a table where the colspans and rowspans were making it difficult to simply programmatically pull data. Then I started looking into code to turn HTML table to JSON but for some Read more…
Now Available in YourJS Recently I was working on a function which needed to determine whether or not a string could be used as a variable name. Variable name validation can get tricky so instead of using a crazy regular expression which includes all keywords (which may change over time) Read more…
Please refer to my newest post about Watchtower Library on Mac.
When allowing a user to input code that could potentially cause an infinite loop, it is nice to test the code first, right? Even, if the code doesn’t run infinitely, it would be nice to know if it takes longer than you would want. One way to nicely test for Read more…
Recently I took a look at making HTML5 programs that will work on Mac, Linux and Windows via Electron and needed a way to recurse a directory synchronously in Node.js. I ended up with the following code: The above function allows us to recursively get the contents of a directory. Read more…
Recently I was working on something that required inserting key-value pairs into an array after a specific key in PHP. As I was looking through stackoverflow answers I realized that there was no awesome answer that really jumped out at me. Therefore I decided to take a few minutes to Read more…
Yesterday I really wanted to make a multi-lingual so I decided to make a game in which you have to go through all of the books of the Bible as fast as you can. I still need to do some work on the game to make it more user-friendly, but Read more…
I noticed that lately there has been interest in finding a panda in a large array of snowmen in this post. There was also this post where you have to find a cat amidst a great deal of owls. I started thinking about how I could make a similar game Read more…
Today I was working on a personal project and wanted to be able to use a native PHP function to re-index a 2D array so that the key for each sub-array was pulled from a value in that sub-array. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a way to simply do Read more…