Little details

On each of my pages you'll notice the main element: interactive diagrams that visually explain a concept. But there are lots of other te...

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Hex grid guide load time, part 2

Last year I reimplemented my hexagon grid guide with the goals of making it easier for me to add content and also making it possible to load...

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Printing my pages

Occasionally someone will want to print one of my web pages, even though it means losing access to all the interactive parts. There are a fe...

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Tower Defense page: distance fields

One reason I prefer having web pages instead of videos or academic papers is that they're easy to update over time. I'm still updati...

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Touch events on the pathfinding pages, part 2

I've been avoiding mapgen4 for a few weeks now. I ran into a really annoying bug that frustrated me enough that I wanted to give up. I ...

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Thoughts on explorable explanations

Conversations with several people over the past few months have led me to wonder about the purpose of the interactive diagrams in my article...

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April updates: hex grid guide, load time

The past 7 weeks I've been working on my guide to hexagonal grids . Over the years I accumulated a long list of TO DO items on my Trello...

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April updates: hex grid guide, iteration

One of my goals this year is to iterate more . I have a tendency to "launch" a page and then move on to the next topic. Instead, f...

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April updates: hex grid guide

“We can rebuild it—we have the technology.” Over the past few weeks I've been reimplementing my guide to hexagonal grids . I'm gener...

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Using Vue with Canvas

In my last post I had said I was trying out some libraries to automatically track dependencies for me. The one I'm playing with right n...

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How I implement my interactive diagrams, part 2

In the last post I described how I structure my interactive diagrams and gave some examples. In this post I'll describe what I'd l...

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How I implement my interactive diagrams, part 1

I have an interactive tutorial about making interactive tutorials , showing how I made my line drawing tutorial . I wanted to describe how ...

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Thinking about writing

I'm looking again at traffic to my site and how I write. A few years ago I realized I had a "ratchet" problem. My first articl...

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Making-of: line drawing tutorial

People ask me how I write my interactive tutorials. I can point at the HTML+CSS+JS but that doesn’t show the process . I decided to rewrite ...

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Outside the box

I write interactive explanations; I'm always looking for simpler ways to explain things. Think back to every technical...

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3 Whys - what problem am I addressing?

I've wanted to write a page about coordinate transforms, but I've started it and abandoned it several times. The first version was a...

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Minor A* page improvements

There are some big things I want to change on my pages, but there are lots of little things too. The big things I keep delaying because they...

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