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Creating a tilemap and drawing it on screen
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Moving a sprite on the screen using simple D-pad controls
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Installing the Playdate SDK, compiling a Lua script, and testing in the Simulator
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Lately we’ve been using the Octopus Agile electricity tariff* to cut our energy bills. As we both work (mostly) from home, using electricity during non-peak periods – AKA procrastinating by doing the laundry – is easy, so it’s been saving us money. There are loads of ways to keep track of the tariff rates –…
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About ten years ago I had a whole website* dedicated to tips on how to travel in Japan on the cheap. After so many few years without visiting, though, it felt very out of date – and with the yen now reduced to 50% of what it was, living off convenience store rice balls and staying in…
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Some code to generate a Peloton resistance value from the JTX Cyclo Studio v5 bike
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I took these in 2009, shortly before the estate was demolished. They were lost when Flickr clamped down on image storage, but copies have been floating around the internet since, so I thought I would upload the whole set here. Many of the buildings gave the feeling of a post-apocalyptic video game environment – trees…
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Marvel’s Lane Clinic, Grove Park SE12 is just around the corner from me. When idly Googling the history of it, I found this 1902 magazine article being sold. It does appear to be the 1900s equivalent of the Daily Mail complaining about TVs in prisons, but nonetheless – it’s interesting to see a glimpse of…
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On a recent trip to Norway I found myself needing to rent a car – and, for the first time, most of the cars available were electric. As someone who doesn’t own an EV, and doesn’t live in Norway, I wondered if it would be a pain – if you have the same questions, here’s…
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My list of “novels I read in 2022” is, I’m pretty sure, one novel long. I have excuses; I will spare both of us the excuses. But I have been reading to Small – now six, going on seven any day – at bedtime. Here are a few he enjoyed.