More to learn about #GameBoy graphics! This time I'm explaining Tile Maps: youtu.be/_h5TXh20_fQ.
And just like last time I've put up some companion demos on linked to from the video.
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lots of great recommendations in last year's version of this tweet:
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it's the end of the year and some people have education budgets to spend. What tech books have really helped you?
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it's the end of the year and some people have education budgets to spend! What tech books (or courses?) have really helped you this past year?
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junior/mid people: learn to use your self-doubt like a tool. it works to your advantage.
that unsureness is what drives people to test things, to find out *why* existing things are like that, not to reinvent mistakes, and to understand what parts are doing their job just fine
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annoyingly, I can't disable the billing address prompt but you can just enter a fake address like 123 fake st, New york NY 12345, (123) 123 4567, I tested and it works :). It won't ask you for a card number.
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I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000 sales, I'm giving away 1000 copies of The Pocket Guide to Debugging (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)
Here’s the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free copy store.wizardzines.com/products/the-p
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Since a few people have asked -- the PDF version of the zine includes a printable PDF, that you can print at home, as well as a PDF that you can read on your computer
The print version will get you the PDF right now, plus a printed copy shipped to you in late January
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if you're looking for things to spend your 2022 professional development budget on before the year ends: my new zine on debugging came out yesterday! twitter.com/b0rk/status/16
(also you can get a 12-pack of all my zines!)
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It's here!! My new zine "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" is out now!! It has 47 pages of my favourite strategies for solving your sneakiest bugs. 
Get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/debuggin
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If you're in a country (like Brazil) where $12 USD is a lot of money, I've set up purchasing power parity to make the pricing more reasonable. If you go to wizardzines.com/zines/debuggin you should see a discount code
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here's the table of contents for "The Pocket Guide to Debugging", again:
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getting one or two support emails this morning after releasing the new zine (people who accidentally ordered the wrong thing, etc). I love that my customers are always extremely nice and it's always super easy to reply
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Bought this for the team because the topic is complex and SO FREAKING CRITICAL and like usual Julia has made it fun and interesting to explore
Hook your team up.
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It's here!! My new zine "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" is out now!! It has 47 pages of my favourite strategies for solving your sneakiest bugs.
Get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/debuggin
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This zine was a lot harder to write than I thought it was going to be -- you can see me here in 2019 (more than 3 years ago!) starting to work on an early version
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I've been working on this zine almost every weekday for the last 6 months with and it would be nowhere near as good as it is without all of her advice.
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Get it here for $12: wizardzines.com/zines/debuggin
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It's here!! My new zine "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" is out now!! It has 47 pages of my favourite strategies for solving your sneakiest bugs. 🔎?
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I'm going to release the debugging zine later today!!
Here's a sneak peek at the final table of contents:
And if you want the TOC as a poster, here you go:
wizardzines.com/images/debuggi
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absolutely love this interactive DNS tool made by - messwithdns.net
it's so fun to poke at the invisible tools that make our digital world run ! and with colors !
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I had the pleasure of recording a podcast episode with the one and only Scott Hanselman and it was pure magic. I think you’ll enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed creating it 💜
Thank you for sharing space with me
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(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.
Well, I have good news.
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- CSS examples, with surprising things in CSS css-examples.wizardzines.com
- There's also github.com/jvns/shell-exa with some examples of surprising bash behaviour
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Some of my other zine-companion websites:
- Mess With DNS, where you can make DNS records and experiment messwithdns.net
- dns-lookup.jvns.ca, for making DNS queries
- SQL playground, for experimenting with SQL sql-playground.wizardzines.com
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these mysteries show you how to apply some of the tips in the zine to a specific kind of bug: computer networking issues! It also demos some of my favourite networking spy tools, with tips for interpreting their output!
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All of my recent zines come with an ?? interactive website ?? where you can play around with the concepts from the zine
For the upcoming debugging zine, it's mysteries.wizardzines.com: a set of choose-your-adventure debugging mysteries.
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I absolutely love that to watch the live stream from I just open a URL (youtube.com/watch?v=pR3QUe).
No registration, no gate, no BS.
Bravo and team 👏👏👏👏👏
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This conference is happening in 30 minutes, see you there :)
Normconf.com
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Gonna start a conference called #NormIPS that’s just presentations of middlebrow ML topics. “how to structure Python packages 2022”, “how many k-folds is too many”, “how to make the browser pop-up come up when the notebook is done running”, “putting features in Postgres”, etc.
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Twitter is dead so I'm blogging without extensive edits again
skamille.medium.com/okrs-are-hard-
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One of the things I get most pedantic about is OKRs. I cannot believe how many KPIs I see labeled "OKR." If the objective is nothing but increase/decrease measure and the kr is that measure it's not a freaking OKR
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the magic of backwards compatibility is that if you make a website exactly the same way someone would have in 2005, it will still work just fine
(though I would use flexbox, flexbox is way easier than whatever we had in 2005)
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I'm extremely on team "you do not have to" (as someone who only makes tiny websites, mostly by myself)
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Web technology secret: you do not have to ever
Frameworks: you do not have to
Libraries: you do not have to
Compile/build process: you do not have to
This decade's pre-processed CSS solution: you do not have to
Literally CSS, JS and 99.99% of HTML: you do not have to
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Web sumo is a sport where you stand still doing exactly what you please, as people try to get you to switch to a framework, and you win if their framework is deprecated before you are moved
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also put this debugging manifesto on my blog for more convenient linking jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/0
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got a draft of the debugging zine's cover art from the illustrator, it's looking so good!!
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So, 2022 is almost over, which means your professional development stipend is about to expire! ⏰
If you work at a company that has this perk, I've collected some suggestions in this thread! Books and courses I've been impressed with, or excited by.
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the US holiday shipping deadline for buying zines at store.wizardzines.com is TODAY! Orders made after today likely won't arrive until next year
(the non-US holiday shipping deadline already passed)
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(note: that deadline's **for US orders**, the international shipping deadline has already passed)
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Quick reminder that the holiday shipping deadline is tomorrow (december 9!) if you want to buy print copies of my zines store.wizardzines.com
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How do you write the shortened form of "usual"?
I'm in for the first time taking on the challenges of English spelling vs pronunciation!
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tips for analyzing logs jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/0
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I feel like I get more and better responses there, even though in theory I have fewer followers on mastodon
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I'm still posting here but for now I've mostly switched to having discussions / asking questions on Mastodon
I've been surprised by how nice it is, I like that the longer character limits let people reply in more depth
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