2025-04-30

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Build a HTML5 “Helix Jump” prototype with Three.js and TypeScript – Step 2: adding a bouncing ball with no physics engine

In this second step of my three.js HTML5 Helix Jump prototype, I added a bouncing ball, handled platform collisions and made platforms infinite. As always, you’ll find fully commented TypeScript source code.

Pixel is a unit of length and area

Build a HTML5 “Helix Jump” prototype with Three.js and TypeScript

Build the foundation of a HTML5 "Helix Jump" game using Three.js, TypeScript, and Vite. Learn to create a rotating tower with sliced platforms and manage shadows and lighting, all with fully commented source code to guide you step by step.

Resistance from the tech sector

As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to read the news at all, having become the unfortunate subjects of the news. Fascism is on the rise worldwide and in the United States the news is particularly alarming. The time has arrived to act.

The enemy wants you to be overwhelmed and depressed, to feel like the situation is out of your control. Propaganda is as...

Hamming error-correcting codes

Build a game like C64 classic Trailblazer in Three.js using TypeScript, with a lot of room for customization

First step in the creation of a HTML5 Trailblazer game using Three.js and TypeScript. Track movement, fake shadow and controls. Commented source code available.

FastCGI library

A Firefox addon for putting prices into perspective

I had a fun idea for a small project this weekend, and so I quickly put it together over the couple of days. The result is Price Perspective.

Humor me: have you ever bought something, considered the price, and wondered how that price would look to someone else? Someone in the developing world, or a billionaire, or just your friend in Australia? In other words, can we develop an intuition for purchasing power?

The Price Perspective add-on answers these questions. Let’s consider an example: my income is sufficient to buy myself a delivery pizza for dinner without a second thought. How much work does it take for someone...

Using linkhut to signal-boost my bookmarks

It must have been at least a year ago that I first noticed linkhut, and its flagship instance at ln.ht, appear on SourceHut, where it immediately caught my attention for its good taste in inspirations. Once upon a time, I had a Pinboard account, which is a similar concept, but I never used it for anything in the end. When I saw linkhut I had a similar experience: I signed up and played with it for a few minutes before moving on.

I’ve been rethinking my relationship social media lately, as some may have inferred from my unannounced disappearance from Mastodon.1 While reflecting on this again recently, in...