40 posts tagged with "engineering"

I've finally organized my development environment setup into a proper dotfiles repository. After years of manually configuring each new machine, I decided to automate the whole process.

I built my first version of What the FPL!? in 2019 as a simple tool to help me make better decisions in Fantasy Premier League. It was a basic web app that collected player data and predicted points using a straightforward algorithm.

I have tried every way of writing dates for files, notes, and folders. The best I have found is YYMMDD.

mailto: provides a way of creating hyperlinks in websites that will tell your computer to open the default mail client and create a new email without the user having to copy and paste the email address. You can even pre-fill the message subject and content.

As part of my university dissertation (The Use of Genetic AI in the Balancing of Competitive Multiplayer Games), I'm programming a card game based on Noughts and Crosses.

Proving the efficacy of the proposed balancing process first required the construction of a two-player game to balance, designed specifically for the project so as to be representative of games the technique might be applied to.