A few weeks ago I talked about a Pokémon game that runs on the web as a progressive web app. It’s evolved over the past five years with all kinds of features. And now that I support over a thousand distinct Pokémon species, I do worry it’s become difficult for…

Today I’m at connect.tech in Atlanta, Georgia to talk about a Pokémon fangame I’ve been slowly building over the last five years. It’s a game that’s constantly evolving and I’ve learned a lot from it. Playing Pokémon In this game, much like the main series, there a bunch of gameplay mechanics that…

Back in August, the MTA could no longer hold back the resistance to raise the price of the fare to $2.90. This resulted in a lot of grumpy people online who complained as they always do. But as I heard their cries, I began to wonder. What if the subway…

I’ve got a web-based game which I’ll be introducing in more detail in Connect.tech next month. When you open the game in your browser, there’s a splashscreen which appears. There’s a bit of stuff that needs to load in the background, as well as authorizing the current user and pulling…

I want to provide some longer thoughts on the hasty decision by DHH to replace their TypeScript library Turbo with JavaScript. I think it’s a bad decision. But why is it a bad decision? Have I just become a crank who is settled in his own ways? …

When I have some free time on the weekends, I’ll try to pull an article I’ve saved in Instapaper and read it. While Feedly is great for publications I read regularly, I do want to read a lot of articles that shared on social media. But when do I have…

When you are going to build an IoT project, you have a lot of platforms you can choose from: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Particle, and new platforms like Zephyr are popping up all the time. I think Zephyr is interesting because of its wide board support and its backing by the…

After reading an essay entitled The Microwave Economy by David Perell, I thought about leaving a comment expressing my opinion. But then the comment was going to get too long and I decided to write a more formal rebuttal of the author’s points. In this essay, the author bemoan’s the…

A couple months ago, a new website launched that I found quite interesting. I finally found a bit of time to go through it. The site, now called UrbanStats, provides a variety of density-related data and more including education, income, election-related data, and more. I thought it’d be fun…