Fletch (Dan Fletcher)

Took way longer than I thought (2 years) but we finally did it!!! Learn the basics of game development using JavaScript while building a breakout clone with the ability to add custom levels using pixel art!

@TheJackForge I feel very privileged to say that I would take the 4 day work week over the raise

@karomancer This should legit be an arcade game it looks like so much fun!

At the Currents New Media festival in Santa Fe, this kid played my cow game 4 times and his parents had to drag him away I think I found my #1 biggest fan

Working on my cow udder game. Making a physical controller that is a rubber cow udder you squeeze to a Rhythm Heaven Fever inspired rhythm game. Decided to make a countertop mini cow that acts as an espresso machine. Was thinking of having the screen under the udder. (1/2)

@Mattylantz Congrats to both of you!!! Beautiful baby boy!

Ellis, second boy in the family!

@christophrumpel Please share if you do!

@danfletcherdev I did a lot when I was younger, 14 to 24 maybe. We have a little new skate place in town, and I really want to give a try sometime.

Been practicing my ollie a lot lately and I'm pretty proud of the form during the take-off for this one :D Getting back into skateboarding at 33 has been tough lol

@christophrumpel Oh didn't know you used to too! That's awesome 🤙 I've been scared about my ankles too 😳 For the last few months since I started skating again I've been doing a lot of mobility exercises to try and avoid injury (as much as possible)

@danfletcherdev I thought about getting back too for a few years now😅 just afraid of my ankles

@hatch2k3 Thanks! It really is a workout lol I can't believe I used to use these things for getting around town My goal is to get more into mini ramps and bowls because it's a lot easier on the joints than doing street

@ModestasMV Oh damn been there before 😆

@danfletcherdev Becoming a bike mechanic in a middle of the town :)

What skills do you work on outside of being a developer? Right now I'm working on the skill of painting parking lots with my shins (some call this skateboarding 🛹)

@jeffrey_way I haven't gotten into too much yet myself but have you looked into Nix? Not sure if it does exactly what you're trying to achieve but it might get you close nixos.org Another thought is aliasing brew et el to a bash script that uses rsync or ssh That or Docker 😜

So is there any workflow in place for perfectly syncing up two computers? I want them to be clones of each other. If I install something through Brew on one machine, it should be on the other machine, too.

@christophrumpel And for a grand room like that I don't think the design is usually considering long hours of tv watching It's more of a background thing if you have it at all. If your house is large enough for a room like that chances are you have a seperate space for watching movies

@christophrumpel In my last house (Canada) we did this because the fireplace made it so there was no other option But also in a grand room like that you're potentially watching TV from the kitchen or dining area which makes the height more natural

Why do homes, especially in the US (I believe) put the TV up that high? I see that in every series 🤷‍♂️ You always have to look up when you sit on the sofa. I don't get it.

Life has been so hectic for me lately 😓 Our move was a disaster but we're finally in the new house and slowly settling in Loving the view from our front window in the morning!

@hatch2k3 Glad this was helpful to you! Thanks for the shout out 🙏

@skyiesq @TreciaKS Good overall! Considering it's almost free it's tough to have any complaints. The flexibility fit my life extremely well at the time too

@danfletcherdev @TreciaKS How was your experience with university of people?

Are there any developers who learned JavaScript from college/uni? 👩🏽‍💻

@karomancer Oh no haha 😂 I can't. But at least it sounds better than var care so I'll give you that!

@danfletcherdev I say vare care!

I'm with Sleepy Joe on this one...it's definitely "care" for "character" 😉

Been busy af lately and haven't made much time for posting Sooooo... Sup? What I miss?

@DThompsonDev Haha jokes aside there are legitimate case studies where this is "better" I think it was Turbo Tax that ran into issues with customers complaining that they didn't trust that their taxes could be filed so quickly They had to purposely add a loader to simulate "work"

Wait, so you are saying you want to purposefully slow your website down & give the user a bad experience just so you can show them a loading spinner you made for 4 seconds? Do I understand this correctly? 😐😐 😢

@bitknight Looking good dude!

Got the boss sequence feeling good! Wait for the explosive finish 💥 #shmup #ecs #typescript #gamedev