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Myztiq | 10 years ago | on: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

A browser extension I didn't know I wanted. Keeps history of textfields when I navigate away, and gives me an option to restore.

Myztiq | 10 years ago | on: Use Atom to edit in Chrome

The only real use-case I can see here is getting access to multi-select, and find/replace utilities, or perhaps other custom shortcuts you might use. Overall a neat little trick. Atom is not my usual editor of choice but I could see a few small potential use cases.

Myztiq | 10 years ago | on: Facebook is closing Parse

Former employee of Kinvey here. But I absolutely loved working there and they have an incredibly formidable offering which I personally feel surpassed Parse.

Myztiq | 10 years ago | on: A game made with CSS/HTML only

Ha, kinda? It's all in the view/source. Feel free to do anything you want w/ it. If you want me to I might be able to track down the original php script and give you a link.

It might be a useful starting point to use this: http://ryan-kahn.com/static/onlyCSS/testRoad.html

That's what I used to play around with the styles for the cars themselves. Feel free to take it wherever you want and let me know what you end up with!

Myztiq | 10 years ago | on: A game made with CSS/HTML only

Ha! That's the only image I used on the page. I changed the mouse pointer to be the image of the car. I'm really surprised you can still change the cursor to an image.

Myztiq | 11 years ago | on: CSS-only plotting

Eventually once browser support is there we can reduce this to about 70 lines. By using

.scatterplot ul li[data-cp-y] { bottom: attr(data-cp-y %); }

Myztiq | 11 years ago | on: Nearables: Why a global lost-and-found network is finally viable

The estimote stickers are pretty cool. However, I notice they have a battery life of one year, at $12.50 a sticker ($99 for a pack of 10 + $25 in shipping) it is starting to get close to where I can imagine buying a set. If only they had some sort of solar recharging, or ability to pop in a new battery for a few bucks.

Myztiq | 12 years ago | on: StackMob is shutting down

Well, if you are building a very simple system it's quite possible you don't need a backend at all. Our goal when designing the tool was to help people get an estimate of how much it does cost to build an app, hence we have some options that don't strictly point to backend features.

Myztiq | 12 years ago | on: StackMob is shutting down

Often times I find people forget to answer the first question and pick a platform. That or they select options that won't require a backend.

Perhaps that's what has happened here? What options did you pick?

Myztiq | 12 years ago | on: StackMob is shutting down

Disclaimer: I work for Kinvey on their development team.

Kinvey[1] is another BaaS platform with a pricing model based on users instead of API calls. We also have quite a few integrations, including the ability to run code on a pre-save/post-save on a different server if you so desired.

At the end of the day, there are a bunch of decent choices out there, it all depends on what features and pricing fit your needs.

1: http://kinvey.com

Myztiq | 12 years ago | on: HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS

Actually.. There is a way to do it that I was in the process of creating for my personal CSS only game I made 2+ years ago. It involved having a div slide over the content with a specific hover event that would require the user to keep moving their mouse every X seconds or the you lose screen would cover the page.

Myztiq | 12 years ago | on: HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS

This reminds me of a game I built a long time ago:

http://www.ryan-kahn.com/static/onlyCSS/

I ended up building a generator for the CSS+HTML and at the time I had a PHP script (2+ years ago, I would use Node now) that could allow me to pick the number of lanes, the difficulty etc. Now it's just a single snapshot. I built it in about a week. There is a new bug apparently where the cursor is not changing as expected in chrome.

Myztiq | 13 years ago | on: Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Next Hackathon

I know for myself I usually get caught up learning a completely new language. For instance, in the last GGJ I ended up making a game in C# on XNA and ended up barely being able to provide help for my team. However, when on game jams with CSS3 and Javascript at my disposal I can create some awesome things.
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