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Short guide for Startup Software Engineers in 2nd/3rd World Countries *

Hi, so this is quite a personal text as I have been striving to build and work for a couple of startup businesses for the last decade and I’d like to share a couple of observations and perhaps useful tips if you decide to swim in that area, or you lack to understand why are you constantly sinking. First, let me explain “2nd/3rd World Countries” – it’s not necessary related to Eastern Europe, Asia, or some even less developed economies, but in the eyes of Silicon Valley that could be easily considered as “the rest of the world”, however, for the purpose of this gedankenexperiment, I’ll focus on Eastern Europe, region I live in and know well. Second, “Startup Software Engineer” means that you’re obviously an engineer and that you’re fully committed working for a company that yet doesn’t have successful business model, product is in the phase of development, you’re not making any profit and you’re basically burning the cash you’ve got in

This is a GitHub action we used on several projects to allow our QA team to push changes from dev to qa branch.

Minimal version

The shorter version does the following:

Updates the patch version in package.json on dev
Creates new tag

Kaplay Sprite Atlas Plugin

This plugin is intentionally repo-specific. It scans src, packs PNGs from public/sprites, rewrites static k.loadSprite(...) calls, and serves or emits atlas files from a fixed location.

Fixed Conventions

Source code is scanned under src
Packable images live under public/sprites
Atlas cache is written to .kaplay-sprite-atlas
Runtime atlas assets are served and emitted under generated/kaplay-sprite-atlas

	{% if paginator.total_pages > 1 %}

	{% assign start = paginator.page \| minus: 2 %}
	{% assign end = paginator.page \| plus: 2 %}

	{% if start < 1 %}
	{% assign start = 1 %}
	{% assign end = start \| plus: 4 %}
	{% elsif end > paginator.total_pages %}
	{% assign start = paginator.total_pages \| minus: 4 %}

	const ADDON_NAME = 'react-to-html';
	const PARAM_NAME = 'reactToHtml';
	const PANEL_NAME = `${ADDON_NAME}/panel`;
	const MARKUP_EVENT = `${ADDON_NAME}/markup`;

	:root {
	--tab-highlighter: transparent;
	}

	#tabbar {
	background: #eee;
	border: none;
	}

	tab-item-substance {

	import { spawn } from 'child_process';

	export class Runner {
	tasks = [];
	exiting = false;
	colors = [
	'\x1b[33m', // yellow
	'\x1b[34m', // blue
	'\x1b[35m', // magenta
	'\x1b[36m', // cyan

	-- Aseprite Script: Add 1px Padding to Tilemap
	-- Takes a tilemap and creates a new file with 2x larger grid (1px padding per tile)

	local sprite = app.activeSprite
	if not sprite then
	app.alert("No active sprite")
	return
	end

	-- Get original sprite properties