Id30
Id30 is an encoding scheme for identifiers I have designed for use in URLs, and
implemented in Rust. It is also a good fit for single-use keys
meant to be copied to another device, such as login codes sent via SMS or
displayed on a TV screen. Id30 looks like the following: bpv3uq, zvaec2,
rfmbyz, jwygvk or even 000000 and zzzzzz. Example URLs could be:
https://example.com/item/bpv3uq or
https://example.com/watch?v=zvaec2
Continue readingHexagonal train game
I'm dreaming of a train game inspired by OpenTTD, a game I have spent the
typical "too many hours" playing. I obviously enjoy it a lot, but there are
nevertheless some annoyances that would be nice to fix. So I have spent a lot
of time designing a new game in my mind that fixes everything and is so much
better. Maybe. The only way to know is to play the game, and that requires
having the game to play.
One of the things I have been wondering about is if it might be nicer to play
on an …
Continue readingWriting dependency-free JavaScript
Lately, I have been working on a web application, pixu.rs1, that,
while small, includes an interactive form with image uploading and multiple
phases. This is exactly the kind of thing I tend to turn into a mess when I'm
not using React, Redux and everything that comes with that ecosystem, but small enough
that I hesitate to bring in the big guns. For pixu.rs, I have experimented
with applying learnings from the React ecosystem to my code without actually
using any dependencies, and in the proces…
Continue readingSite maintenance
Over the last weeks I have implemented various improvements to this
site. I have been saving them for a single write-up, because I want to keep the
volume of meta-posts low, lest this become another blog about blogging and
how I would want to write more next year.
First up is tags. Some blog posts get one or more tags, and I can now give you
an overview of all my posts about doom, for example.
I did this first to pave the way for another thing I wanted to do. I have now
reposted my x86-64 assemb…
Continue readingKick the Bitbucket
On June 1, Atlassian will indiscriminately delete all Mercurial repositories
from Bitbucket, becoming another Git-only site. In the beginning,
Bitbucket exclusively supported Mercurial, so this change is unexpected to say
the least.
In addition to supporting Mercurial, the main distinguishing feature that kept
me using Bitbucket was its generous offer of unlimited private repositories
for free. After Microsoft acquired GitHub in late 2018, it didn't take long
for GitHub to start offering this as…
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