My son asked me to make a spaceship for his lizard toys. This is it.
Lizard persons not depicted.
Dec. 19, 2021
The other day I released Doodle CSS. It's a simple hand drawn HTML/CSS theme. You can use it make a web page look like a hand drawn mockup.
Since then it has garnered an astonishing ~500 GitHub stars, blowing past all of my other open source project repos. It made it to the front page on Hacker News and friends tell me it got featured in multiple tech newsletters.
It only took me a couple of days to put together Doodle CSS. The idea is one I've had for a long time though. The right combination of knowledge and motivation finally arrived last week and spurred me into action to implement it.
What a strange world it is building in public. Imagine spending your whole life as an open source developer with low-key popular niche repos, and then a literal scribble that took two days to make is what everyone latches on to.
It's useful feedback though, and that is the value in building in public. It seems like I've hit upon some deep seated doodle desire with this release. I feel like there is something bigger here I should develop. I will think about this some more.
For now I am happy with this as an open source project that other people are enjoying, and I'll admit the brief glow of popularity is very enjoyable.
Nov. 26, 2021
Hello reader! I'm excited to announce the release of the Doodle Rogue tileset. It's a free hand drawn tileset containing tiles and sprites that I used in my game Smallest Quest.
I thought it would be fun to set the graphics free and see what other people do with them. Let me know if you make something using Doodle Rogue!
Nov. 19, 2021
Sitefox is a back-end web framework for ClojureScript. I built it because I wanted to use ClojureScript to build websites and apps instead of Python and Django. It's inspired by frameworks like Django, Rails, and Flask.
The easiest way to try it is to use one of the npm create scripts.
Use npm create sitefox-nbb for a simple website with no Java tooling dependencies.
Use npm create sitefox-shadow-fullstack for a full stack app using shadow-cljs.
Features
Here are the features it supports so far:
- Routing
- Database + Key-value store
- Sessions
- Templates (Reagent views)
- Forms
- Logging
- Live reloading
There are a ton of examples in the examples folder on GitHub.
If you build something cool with Sitefox let me know!
Nov. 15, 2021
After many days of debugging (and filling out a bajillion forms) Melody Generator is finally available as an iOS app!
It's also available on the Google Play store.
You can still use the web app without installing anything at dopeloop.ai/melody-generator.
Enjoy!