@nicgene

Ever since I discovered the mazes sub, I’ve wanted to create a randomly generated game with some type of maze element.

You wouldn’t ask a barber if you need a haircut. The answer will always be yes. So why would you ask a web developer if you need a website?

Implemented more stealth mechanics and enemy behavior testing. NPCs are finally starting to feel less robotic.

Started aggressively cutting scope and focusing on what actually makes the game fun. Painful but necessary.

Finally migrated a chunk of the project from REST to RPC-style endpoints. Not sure it was worth it yet, but the client code feels cleaner.

Spent way too long debugging a race condition that turned out to be a missing await. Classic.

Experimenting with Godot 4 again. The workflow feels way better than 3.x, especially for scripting and scene organization.

Tried switching to a monorepo setup. Tooling is nice, but build times are starting to creep up.

Reworked asset pipeline for the game. Automating conversions saved a ton of time already.

Built a small internal tool to preview GLB assets quickly. Helps catch scale and orientation issues early.

Started focusing more on performance budgets. Easy to ignore until everything is suddenly slow.

When you work for or with liars, you end up carrying their lies with you.

Refactored a bunch of old API routes. Less magic, more explicit code. Feels easier to reason about now.

Tried using edge functions for a side project. Cold starts weren’t as bad as expected.

Set up a better local dev environment with Docker. Still a bit clunky, but closer to production parity.

Received my Librem 5 phone at the end of November after 3 years of waiting and returned it last week. I still think non-Android Linux will be successful once the app compatibility is better.

Yesterday I was using Cloudflare Workers to cache a “POST” request that sent a response with the “cache-control”: “no-cache” header. When you insert the response into Workers cache it will never be returned. The solution is to create a new Response() and manually set the “cache-control” header.

Theory: TARS never had a humour setting

Cooper: Hey TARS, what’s your honesty parameter?

TARS: 90 percent.

Cooper: 90 percent?

TARS: Absolute honesty isn’t always the most diplomatic nor the safest form of communication with emotional beings.

Fixing hydration mismatch errors causing layout issues in Nuxt 3 and building out marketplace features for buying/selling digital games.

Getting the webhook API endpoint setup to recieve notifications from 📺 Cloudflare Stream.

Prefer $fetch instead of useFetch() in your Nuxt 3 server API routes and Pinia Store??? ℹ️

Created a workaround yesterday for generating v4 UUID’s in development using Node crypto and in production using Web Crypto. 👷

Having used Nuxt 3 for the last few months I can say that after the learning curve it saves me time. I also prefer using things like the native JavaScript fetch API so doing things the Nuxt way was a difficult trade-off.

Converting data types from MySQL to SQLite is not as easy as it seems. 💡 In the process it just makes sense to create database migration query transactions. That way if I switch to Cloudflare d1 in the future migrations should be quicker.

The v4 UUIDs are generated in the Nuxt 3 API route using Node.js Crypto in development and Crypto.subtle on Cloudflare Workers.

Spun up an rqlite server for development. Continuing to add 🔐 security 🔐 and moving data.

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Learning how to compile deno_mysql to JavaScript. 💡

Created the database tunnel 🚇 from Nuxt 3 to DigitalOcean.

Refactored database tables 💽 with UUID’s to prevent scraping. Added shields to the @nicgene banner area and 🐞 bug 🐞 reporting to the footer.

Upgraded @nicgene layout and color systems. 🍭

Retired an old MySQL server and spun-up 💽 a new one on DigitalOcean. 🎮 Started migrating SQL and updating schema.

Updated the website with a development log. 🧑‍💻

Revisited an old project and immediately wanted to rewrite everything. Resisted (mostly).

Started tracking small daily progress instead of big milestones. Way more motivating.

Learned the hard way that “temporary” hacks tend to stick around forever.