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Cryptograma – Redo

I finally converted the last of my old Flash games into React, using Next JS. For simplicity, instead of symbols, I used emojis to hide the message. It’s not perfect, but the basic functionality is there. Maybe in the future I’ll improve it. The objective of the game is to reveal the quote. Each symbol… Read more »

ScrollMagic for Beginners Tutorial

ScrollMagic is a JavaScript library for creating scroll interactions. It lets you create animations that start and stop at specific points during the scrolling of a page. It’s quite powerful, but can be intimidating for beginners, since unlike Skrollr, it’s all done in JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover the basics of adding ScrollMagic to a… Read more »

How to Make a Kindle eBook from Scratch

Update (Sept. 11, 2015): The character set for Kindle eBooks is now UTF-8. And recommends using the UTF-8 character over entities (© over ©). There are many ways to create a Kindle eBook, but creating your own source files, and then using KindleGen to convert it into Kindle Format 8 will give you more control… Read more »