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• October 2019 Game Project: Approximately

  October 6, 2019

  To be honest, this is really more of an August - October game project. It started at the end of Jammin 2019 and I was finally able to close it off in October. The theme for that jam was Growth, so the game plays on that concept with a super simple puzzler. You

• Add a Contact Form to Your Static Site

  September 9, 2019

  Hey Static Website developers! Here's a quickie into a feature which a lot of static websites don't really come out of the box with - a contact page! Contact forms are traditionally processed via server side logic: the form data is posted to an endpoint, proce

• Mock Servers with OpenAPI and API Sprout

  July 18, 2019

  Hey API developers! This is a pretty quick post that could save you time like it did for me! In my current job we develop a lot of microservices, the majority being RESTful. For each microservice we define an OpenAPI specification - a YAML file that describes

• January 2019 Game Project: Swerve

  February 3, 2019

  While in a car on one of T&T's many bad roads, we had to immediately dodge a deep pothole. I thought I should make a quick game about dodging potholes - and Kontra was just the tool for throwing it out quickly. I've been familiar with Kontra.js before so it wa

• Add Posts from Another Site to Hexo

  February 3, 2019

  Hey everyone! In my last post I wrote about scraping another website I write articles for, which I include here https://msanatan.com/categories/other/. This is how I integrated them in the site. First Attempt with JSON I first tried to load the extra blog post

• Weekend Hack, Another Scraper

  January 20, 2019

  So I recently started to write programming articles for another website. I thought it'd be a good idea to link the articles in my website. I've set it up here: https://msanatan.com/categories/other/. The first thing I needed to do was get all my articles in on

• Static Sites for Quick Relief

  January 14, 2019

  In October 2018, Trinidad and Tobago experienced a period of consistently heavy rainfall. As simple as that sounds, it resulted in a devastating natural disaster where many people lost all their belongings. Thankfully, the response to the flooding was immense.

• Micro Games with Kontra.js

  August 31, 2018

  Hello game developers, So my good friend Lasana put me on to a month long game competition: Js13kGames. Essentially you got to make a game in JavaScript that when zipped is 13kb or less. Sounds like fun! The constraints forces some interesting creativity, from

• DynamoDB, Lamdbas, Go and an Empty List

  August 31, 2018

  Hello AWS Denizens, Serverless architecture has come into the forefront as my workplace leverages lambdas to great effect. Some of the projects we work at involve a variety of AWS services like AppSync (GraphQL), DynamoDB and Cloudwatch to name a few. While do

• Revert MySQL from 8 to 5.7 with Homebrew

  August 15, 2018

  So I did a brew upgrade to MySQL that bumped it up to version 8. Holy crap, that messed up almost everything. There are a lot of backward incompatible changes in this new version, so the best solution for me to be productive again was to revert. Uninstall, rei