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awy

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About awy

Developer from Australia in London.

@alexdickson

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    Comment #21795717

    Hello, author here. Thanks a lot for reading my post! A few things to clarify: - indeed I am now in London, but have very fond memories of life in Germany and still enjoy practicin…

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    Comment #21795675

    Hello, author here. I actually brought a US keyboard which made life much easier. It was only ever a pain to type on the laptop's keyboard, which luckily was quite rare.

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    Comment #18911819

    I lived in London for all of 2 weeks before this happened to me. It's pretty frequent in the Islington and Angel areas. Be careful.

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    Comment #17616327

    querySelector() will get you one element, otherwise you can use something like Array.from(querySelectorAll('*')).forEach() It is a little more cumbersome.

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    Comment #10308858

    There was a DOM2Canvas library at some stage, though it wasn't perfect and it couldn't render images (for security reasons).

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    Comment #6570327

    I have a heap on my plate right now but will hope to do part 2 before the end of the year. Glad you enjoyed it.

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    Comment #6569034

    I recently posted about emulating the NES with JavaScript. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-nes-emulator-par... Part 2 will be posted when it's done. :) If you want to g…

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    Comment #6088251

    `contenteditable` has a lot of issues once you go past casual text editing. Sounds like it's doing something similar to Google Docs (using the browser simply as a dumb renderer, an…

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    Comment #5982039

    I'm pretty sure those flip things don't like to go backwards. So I'd assume an unlike would just freeze the number and absorb the next like.

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    Comment #5561542

    I wrote a post about creating a Chip-8 emulator in JavaScript, if JS is your thing. http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-eight-emula...

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    Comment #5523445

    I worked on a project that does this. http://atlasboard.bitbucket.org/ It's pretty simple to set up and write the widgets.

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    Comment #5064277

    Also a great relevant read: How MOS 6502 Illegal Opcodes really work http://www.pagetable.com/?p=39 I just finished a 6502 emulator, I recommend doing it for everyone. Lots of fun …

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    Comment #5040919

    Wiki markup didn't suit the non-technical crowd. If you're a fan of wiki markup in Confluence and have upgraded to >= 4, you might want to use this plugin. https://bobswift.atlassi…

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    Comment #4981790

    You can input your age on a Stack Exchange profile.

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    Comment #4294797

    There is a video series on YouTube covering the early days of Blizzard (and back when they were S&S), Westwood and id. Search YouTube for "All Your History Are Belong To Us".

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    Comment #3866687

    This is why I'm a contributor on Stack Overflow. The more I teach others, the more I learn myself.