Solving problems no one else seems to be havign
If you don't know I have a YouTube channel called SystemOfLevers . This is going to be a dive into some of that channel's analytics. One thing about starting a YouTube channel that I've found challenging is that I had no context for the analytics. For the most part YouTube studio (the admin site for channels) gives you comparisons based on your own past performance. Things like: how does the view…
I made a big GameBoy "game"! Here's the code including the ROM . All you can do is scroll around to see the level. It only has one level and it's 32,766x16,384 pixels big! It looks like this: Ok not very exciting. Let's see how it works! How it Works I'm not using any compression or in-game procedural generation for the level map so the entire 32,768x16,384 pixel level is stored entirely in the…
Tl;dr A named pipe is like a file that doesn't store anything. It has a path (the name I guess). It can be opened, read from, and written to, but the content is temporary and stored in memory. Since a named pipe is also a pipe it acts a bit different than a normal file. When you open it you can only open it as read-only or write-only not read-write. The idea is you'd have one process with it open…
GameBoy Twitter Client Proof-of-Concept I didn't have an interesting demo of my WiFi GameBoy cartridge . I decided that it would be fun to use it to like @diconx 's tweet about his WiFi cartridge and tweet a video of it at him! Of course up to this point I've just been sending handfuls of bytes between the GameBoy and ESP so that I could figure out the hardware and basic communication protocol.…
Web Service API Authentication Basics This is a very simplified overview of some Web Service API auth stuff. My main reason for writing this is to have something to point to from a future post. I'm not even remotely an expert in this area but here are some basics. I'm not going to cover CORS . If you want an introduction to it here's a comic about it from Wizard Zines . What Are Web Service APIs…
I'm making a WiFi GameBoy Cartridge! It works, which is cool! It's not finished, which is ok. And Sebastian Staacks just posted a nice write up about finishing his own, which makes me a bit sad, but they have enough differences to be interesting. So here's mine! I was hoping to have a completed PCB and a demo before writing about it, but since I got scooped maybe I can ride some coattails!…