Make some time to work on the asset tooling for my Atari STE game engine. Tools are almost done now.

The engine now has pluggable physics systems. Currently I have systems for topdown and 2d platform systems.

Some screengrabs

Almost done with this. Have the makings of a nice Web Components based UI toolkit too.

Web workers question: I have a worker that decodes an image from an arraybuffer when a user drops an image onto my app. How do I scale that to deal with hundreds of images? Spawn hundreds of workers or have some kind of batch/queue system? Do browsers do any thread management?

Really, really, really wish it was possible to toggle the rendering of Shadow DOM nodes in browser dev tools. Once I've developed a component I want to be able to debug the host application without the shadow root clutter.

Firefox discrepancy in `getComputedStyle().getPropertyValue()` just caught me out. If the custom property is the last rule in a block and you omit the trailing comma, any whitespace upto the closing `}` is included as part of the returned value.

Current repair job. Drive wouldn’t open because the belt was shot. Managed to revive it in boiling water but going to replace it as I don’t want to try opening this thing again.

Xbox 360: 1
My fingers: 0

Trying to use CSS container queries with flexbox is painful.

Picked up a couple of new vinyl albums from @hmvBasingstoke while I was up that way. Unfortunately, I've ended up with *another* brand new sealed vinyl that's damaged. Not HMV's fault, but now need to make a 35 mile round trip to return it.

Buying modern vinyl is a lottery!

Working with planar image data for my various Atari ST tools has led me to write a bunch of coders for handling old file formats. I've wrapped that lot up into a web component that behaves just like <img>. Here's a prototype image viewer I'm working on that make use of it.

Fixing my brothers A500 plus. It won’t read disks. First step - clean the drive heads

Was looking forward to watching the start of this years Formula E championship only to discover it now requires a £30 monthly subscription! Glad I didn’t get tickets for London this year as I won’t be watching the other races.

Anyone else found that teapigs tea bags often split open? This looks more like an exotic soup than a cup of tea.

This statement is a red flag for me:

'Translate designs into pixel-perfect responsive templates'

Finding the physical production of modern vinyl very hit and miss. I’ve had to return a high percentage of records for replacement because they have surface defects which cause horrible audio artefacts. Now I find myself listening out for defects rather than enjoying the music.

Which do I play first…? 🤔

Merry Christmas