At work I deal with a very large scale application that we deploy in a lot of different markets. A lot of these markets speak different languages. We get a lot of human-made translations for our i18n but sometimes we need to fill in the cracks and get translations we don’t have. Some of our devs were putting i18n labels into Google Translate as a quick fix but this was a tedius process sometimes. I thought it would be neat if we could just run npm run translate whenever we needed and be done with it.

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A while ago I wrote a blog post about the concept of never-ending games and the use of procedural generation. Right now I’m talking about something similar, but from a narrative perspective. There are some MAJOR Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP spoilers in this article. I’ve heard of studies where knowing the ending of something can actually make the story more enjoyable, but if you object to testing that theory on yourself then stop reading and go play that wonderful game! Also, be sure to play it with headphones. I also talk about The Witcher 3 ending but there aren’t really any spoilers.

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You’re back in college. You arrive back in your shared dorm room surrounded by the mess only 4 sophomore age students could make an subsequently live in. The exam you just took is worth a worrying percentage of your final grade and you prepared too little or even not at all for it. It’ll be fine. you told yourself. But it wasn’t fine. You want something to comfort yourself but it’s going to need the right balance of results and effort required.

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You could say its my favorite HTML tag. Why is it so good? Why do I like it so much? Am I even a real designer? Find out!

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A while ago I got a new Mexican Fender Jazz Bass. Recently I saw a 1976 American Fender Precision Bass. I think vintage is better now.

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Programmatically generated gameplay is something that’s always been super cool and interesting to me.

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This Summer, I’ve been doing something different, and it’s helped a lot. You should consider doing it too.

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Right now I’m working on an app that uses some backend logic to let clients communicate with each other in real time. I’m gonna talk about that.

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I read a few articles recently that told me to do stuff differently than how I’ve been doing them. It was right and my static sites are cooler now.

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What this is.

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