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raylib: 6 years of fun

raylib has been in development for more than six years now, it has been an adventure! I decided to resume how it was my personal experience working in this free and open source project for such a long time. Just note that the following article explains raylib from a personal point of view, independently of the technical aspects and focusing on the personal adventure; for technical details on raylib evolution, just check raylib history and raylib changelog.

raylib inceptum

Summer 2012 was ending, I had been working hard on my brand new startup emegeme for about 9 months, developing videogames. I was trying to find my blue-ocean, so, I developed and published two games for Windows Phone platform using the ama

How to setup a practically free CDN using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare

⚠️ Note 2023-01-21
Some things have changed since I originally wrote this in 2016. I have updated a few minor details, and the advice is still broadly the same, but there are some new Cloudflare features you can (and should) take advantage of. In particular, pay attention to Trevor Stevens' comment here from 22 January 2022, and Matt Stenson's useful caching advice. In addition, Backblaze, with whom Cloudflare are a Bandwidth Alliance partner, have published their own guide detailing how to use Cloudflare's Web Workers to cache content from B2 private buckets. That is worth reading,

Genomics - A programmer's guide.

Andy Thomason is a Senior Programmer at Genomics PLC. He has been witing graphics systems, games and compilers since the '70s and specialises in code performance.

https://www.genomicsplc.com

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

Raspberry Pi Kiosk Setup

Install a fresh image of Raspbian and boot the Pi
- Follow the installation guide if needed
Go through the prompts to finish initial setup
Open a Termial window
- Type sudo apt-get install unclutter
- Type sudo raspi-config
  - Select Boot Options with Enter
    - Select Wait for Network at Boot with Enter
    - Select Yes with Enter

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	This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

	Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or
	distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled
	binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any
	means.

	In jurisdictions that recognize copyright laws, the author or authors
	of this software dedicate any and all copyright interest in the
	software to the public domain. We make this dedication for the benefit

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	#include <time.h> // Robert Nystrom
	#include <stdio.h> // @munificentbob
	#include <stdlib.h> // for Ginny
	#define r return // 2008-2019
	#define l(a, b, c, d) for (i y=a;y\
	<b; y++) for (int x = c; x < d; x++)
	typedef int i;const i H=40;const i W
	=80;i m[40][80];i g(i x){r rand()%x;
	}void cave(i s){i w=g(10)+5;i h=g(6)
	+3;i t=g(W-w-2)+1;i u=g(H-h-2)+1;l(u

	//
	// Author: Jonathan Blow
	// Version: 1
	// Date: 31 August, 2018
	//
	// This code is released under the MIT license, which you can find at
	//
	// https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	//
	//