Robert Flack

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics Thanks! There is now a setting. Making some nice activation animation will take a little longer 🕒

@flackrw @RASburyCeramics Thanks. You're such a friendly and accessible game developer.🙇‍♂️ Yes, I reckon that would be nice because the raw, no-frills, ultra-simple essence of the Crosswordle game is what makes it such a delight to play.

@flackrw Loving Crosswordle, but the new change to the yellow grids makes the game easier and removes the uncertainty that made the puzzle exciting. Please revert to the old patterns if possible!😺

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics I was alternately thinking maybe making it so you have to hold down on it for a second with some animation to indicate that, but having a setting to completely turn it off / hide it (for people who don't want it at all) seems good too.

@flackrw @RASburyCeramics I understand that the hints may be a popular option for many users, but it would be lovely if the option could be activated by another checkbox in Settings, like hard mode. It is so easy to touch it accidentally and reveal it instantly because it's in the middle of the screen.

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics Hints are now optional (you click a button to reveal it), and if revealed / used put you in a different bucket on the daily scores list.

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics That sounds like a great compromise! No hints in hard mode, done!

Crosswordle français est de retour! French crosswordle is back!

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics My thinking was to have occasional hints for more obscure puzzle themes but I’ve probably overdone it since it’s a new feature I wanted to test. I definitely don’t want to make it too easy. I’ll reconsider which puzzles it’s on and watch the scores.

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics I always thought the main advantage of Crosswordle was that it forces you to come up with a new starter every day and when you found the answer you could feel pretty confident about it unlike wordle where you could have 4 green but still 6+ possible arbitrary words.

@Anniejay105810 Thanks so much! Looks like I didn't quite catch all the bugs to making the crossing letter count as two guesses. Should be fixed for tomorrow.

@flackrw Hi, there’s an issue with todays crosswordle, 888. Implies there are 3xT’s in the answer, (common T plus 2 others) after the correct answer a T remains yellow on keyboard. Eg. randomly put ‘State Wattage’ on 2nd go, one T should have greyed out! Hope makes sense!

@RASburyCeramics @Stuffedparatha Hey, thanks for letting me know! I had an error in the system config. It's up and running again but will be missing some stats for the period it wasn't working.

@flackrw @Stuffedparatha Hello 😁 Quick question, what has happened to the results league? It was the topic of discussion at the gym last night 😂 We all liked seeing how we had scored against everyone else - can we have it back please?!! 😁

@TheJenHarris There are only 2 more. It was an experiment with the idea that once the pattern was established it could be interesting to try to think of the matching word for the crossing letter.

@flackrw What's with all the French puzzles lately? Lol Also, yes, I do forget every single day and never start with the word French 🤦‍♀️

@stubbornella Is it a carousel? I'm not sure I see it... It is interesting though. The two display modes while resizing makes me think of tab overflow #tab-list-overflow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">open-ui.org/components/tab… (of course with smooth animations between the states!)

@flackrw is it a carousel? I thought you’d like to see this. @gavinmnelson/post/C2kr8Ivv7XG/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@gavinmnelson/…

@canonfodder_co It was feature presentation. I've generally tried to avoid answers being too long as I think they're much harder to guess at but coming up with fresh meaningful daily puzzles is a bit of a challenge sometimes.

@flackrw What was yesterday's answer ( 17th January 2024)

If you've tried crosswordle.serializer.ca before and wished it were a bit easier, I added a new setting for word specific yellow / orange clues which should help. Happy puzzle solving!

@jillreedman Yes, it is a bug! github.com/flackr/crosswo…. I just pushed out a quick fix. You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. Sorry for the inconvenience :-)

@flackrw 8 perfectly good 12 letter words declined by crosswordle so far. Is it a bug?

There was a bug with today's crosswordle, I can't explain it without giving something away but you may need to force your browser to reload before it will accept the answer. Thanks to everyone who reported it early so I could fix the code quickly.

@jess_frances_b I just pushed out a fix for the issue (github.com/flackr/crosswo…). You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. My apologies for the inconvenience :-)

@flackrw I don't know if there's a bug or if the dictionary doesn't have any 12 letter words aside from what whoever entered this puzzle added but it's really frustrating me.

@TheJenHarris Yeah my script for adding puzzles unfortunately didn't pick up on the issue that I didn't have the 12 letter word dictionary (github.com/flackr/crosswo…). I just pushed a fix, you may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

@flackrw Is something going on with today's game (January 18, 2024)? I've tried multiple 12 letter words and it isn't accepting any of them. 《Legitimately》 《Acceleration》 《Contribution》 Are just some that won't work.

@DaveAnkers Thanks for letting me know! I just pushed out a fix for the issue (github.com/flackr/crosswo…). You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. My apologies for the inconvenience :-)

@jaffathecake @bramus @DasSurma @domenic One problem with precomputing it is that with scroll driven animations the needed time values aren't known in advance.

@flackrw @bramus @DasSurma @domenic This was my first proposal, then some implementers suggested they'd just precompute it, so I proposed linear() instead

New post: “How to use a Custom Easing Function with the Web Animations API (WAAPI)” So, you’ve got a custom easing function. Great! But how do you use that with the Web Animations API? Turns out it’s more difficult than you’d first expect it to be … 🔗 bram.us/2024/01/12/waa…

@jaffathecake @bramus @DasSurma @domenic If we created a worklet scope, you could run the timing function in a new worklet off the main thread, e.g. CSS.timingWorklet.addModule('custom-timing-functions.js'); That has non-trivial overhead though. The browser could just pre-evaluate N times in advance on main.

@bramus @flackrw Moving a function into a worker isn't something that can be done reliably, since a function has access to everything in parent scopes, and the global. @DasSurma and @domenic looked into a new type of 'thing' that could be moved around. Module blocks was it?

@jaffathecake @Wridgeu The reminder worked! 😁

@Wridgeu I absolutely did 😁🪥

As I was heading to bed, my dad said "remember to brush your teeth". I'm 39.

@RickByers @adamwathan @stubbornella Ideally though we'd test on the mobile configuration. Chrome android is now tested on wpt.fyi, I'm really looking forward to adding wpt tests for top control related things like the dynamic viewport units wpt.fyi/results/?label…

@adamwathan We've tried to get some of this into the Interop program, but I think the non-Chromium engines still lack webdriver support for touch input on the desktop OSes we have bots for, so we have struggled to make reaction. github.com/web-platform-t… @flackrw @stubbornella help?

Insane things about the web I am somehow only learning today.