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43 from 8 Mar 2024 to 16 Sep 2026
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2026 9

  1. English: a vs an
  2. 2635 a vs an
  3. Differential heuristics
  4. Responsive design calculator
  5. Academic citations
  6. Highlighting interactive code blocks
  7. Optimizing page size
  8. Writing a guide to SDF fonts
  9. URLs with trailing punctuation

2025 14

  1. What I did in 2025
  2. Goodbye Sass
  3. RotMG map seeds
  4. Mapgen4's use of WebGL2
  5. Mapgen4 river shader
  6. Mapgen4 renderer
  7. Harnessing ChatGPT hallucinations
  8. Let's write a search engine, part 2 of 2
  9. Let's write a search engine, part 1 of 2
  10. Hexagon conversions
  11. Mapgen4 trade routes
  12. De-optimizing mapgen4
  13. Hexagon spiral coordinates
  14. Thoughts on Flash

2024 20

  1. What I did in 2024
  2. Hexagon page animations
  3. SDF Halos
  4. SDF headless tests, part 2
  5. SDF headless tests, part 1
  6. SDF curved text
  7. SDF combining distance fields
  8. SDF antialiasing
  9. SDF letter spacing
  10. SDF font outlines
  11. Labels on Maps
  12. Font Distortion
  13. Work in progress: heuristics
  14. Flow field pathfinding
  15. Draggable examples
  16. Testing font code
  17. Text effects
  18. Distance field effects
  19. Signed Distance Field Fonts
  20. New Blog for 2024