At a Glance

• Rails Template Making a Rails template for myself
• Jumpy Alien I finished this example game
• Taylor Playground Some minor tweaks to the playground
• Switch to KDE Reinstalled Fedora and decided to try KDE
• Interesting Links Cool things I found this week

Rails Template

I’ve done a bit of a dive on making my own Rails template to setup projects just the way I like. The big appeal for me is that I end up spending the first night on any project just getting the base setup and it’s almost always the same, so I figured there’s some decent value behind making a proper template.

So far I’ve got Phlex setup with a basic layout and root page and I’ve got esbuild working with TypeScript and htmx.

I have some plans to put in some generators to help speed up development, but that’s probably gonna be a bit.

Jumpy Alien

I spent some time this weekend and finished polishing off the Jumpy Alien example for Taylor!

The final touches ended up being:

• Hitboxes for sky and ground
• Sound effects
• Backgronud music
• Settings menu
• Volume settings
• Logo

Play the Game!

Taylor Playground

I have made some changes to the Taylor Playground too. I’ve added some music so you can have background music, I’ve added sound effects, and finally I’ve added a licenses section so you can see where all they assets came from.

Switch to KDE

I wanted to delete my Windows partition so that I had more space on my Solid State Drive (SSD). I decided to do a full reinstall of Fedora and thought I’d try out KDE as it’s been a long time since I last tried it.

I’m honestly very surprised at how far it has come. It’s extremely nice and I’ve had basically no issues whatsoever with it. I genuinely believe this may become my preferred desktop environment.

Interesting Links

Why do NES colors look so different in emulators?: This taught me about how colours worked for over the air television.

I Sold Out for $20 a Month and All I Got Was This Perfectly Generated Terraform: A pretty good take on LLMs.

So you want to write an “app”: A painful look into building a UI application on a bunch of systems.

Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it: A fun journey of building a text editor.

The Complete History of Tetris the Grand Master: An amazing documentary series of the history of Tetris the Grand Master.