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A few years ago, I embarked on a journey to create a special game for my son, known as the Toddler Button Masher. Initially developed using Unity, it quickly became a source of endless amusement for him. When he hit a key, it changed the background and played a sound. Toddlers are easily amused, as...
I have been a fan of Fallout since 1997. The game options on the early Macs were pretty limited, and MacPlay ported a lot of great Interplay games over to the Mac. Fallout was the last one of these, and just a captivating experience. The combination of bleak dystopia with retro futuristic camp was ...
While cloud photo storage definitely has some advantages for sharing and backups, the cloud is really just someone else's computer. I wanted an easy way to store backups of family photos from a mobile device to a network drive. I recently found a nice replacement for a custom solution with PhotoPri...
Welcome to my latest project, Litterbug! In this game, you'll take on the role of a trash collector in a bustling city, racing against time to pick up as much garbage as possible. But be warned – litterbugs are out in force, trying to snatch up as much trash as they can. This Phaser-based game is...
Fallout Explore is a retro-style adventure game inspired by the iconic Fallout series. Set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the game challenges the player to explore a dangerous world filled with hostile creatures, limited resources, and hidden treasures. Using classic Atari 2600 graphics and...
I purchased an Amazon Fire HD 7 Kids Pro tablet for my son in the summer. The tablet has a lot of cool kids features and apps, a simplified interface and a rugged case. But the ecosystem is locked down to Amazon. This means no YouTube and a slew of other apps that my son was using on his old Nexus ...
The astounding success of Wordle had me thinking about the BASIC program that it very closely resembles. In my copy of BASIC Computer Games from 1970, it is simply called Word. A player guesses a five-letter word and the computer tells the player which letters are matches and whether they are in th...
I was checking in on the status of my website in Google PageSpeed Insights using the Lighthouse scanner built into Google Chrome. I wasn't happy with the results. Why The Scores Dropped The scores were all green last time I checked. I hadn't made any updates to theme since then. However,...
Over the course of 2020 and 2021, different countries and regions imposed various levels of restrictions on gatherings. In Canada, employers were required to have employees work from home where possible. I have been working from home since March 2020, and work for a small business that has managed ...
I sometimes find I need a simple script to backup one or multiple folders and databases. This script just takes a list of pre-defined folders and databases, compresses the folder contents, and executes a database dump. A maximum of seven backups are kept, any older ones are deleted. Customize t...