For the 2024 Reddit Games and Puzzles Hackathon, I submitted 575, a daily word game where you compose a haiku using the words of the day. How to Play 575 Each day, a new set … Read more
575: A Daily Haiku Game for Reddit
Learning CSS Anchor Positioning with Anchoreum
Way back when, vertically centering an element was a tall task. Setting consistent gaps between elements took some thinking and several lines of code. Then came flexbox and grid. Both were new and, at the … Read more
3D Printing a Whiteboard Template for NYT Spelling Bee
My son’s current obsession is the New York Times word game Spelling Bee. Every day, he looks up the letters (he says it’s gonna be a good one if the puzzle has e & d, … Read more
Buttonhole: A Button You Can Unbutton
Skeuomorphism taken to the extreme rarely works. But it can be fun. Like a turntable interface for playing YouTube music or a rotary telephone dial for number inputs. For buttons, skeuomorphic design usually takes form … Read more
CarPlay Karaoke: Playing Music Videos and Lyrics Through Cover Art
Can you play videos natively through CarPlay? That is, without jailbreaking your phone or buying expensive hardware. The short answer is, no. The longer answer is, poorly. Poorly as in, slice up a video’s audio … Read more