edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

I'm a creative programmer and puzzles designer. I cook monsters.

Joined on Apr 16, 2017 eda-qa@disemia.com https://edaqa.com/

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Programmer, Writer, Speaker, Puzzle Designer at Edaqa's Room

Puzzle Design, Programming, Writing, Speaking, Monster Slaying

Online Escape Rooms at Edaqa's Room

A challenging technical project to create a multiplayer game full of puzzles, monsters, and hot dogs.

157 posts published

980 comments written

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Apr 15 '21

System Architecture for Edaqa's Room

#webdev #architecture #gamedev #cloud

8 min read

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Jan 16 '21

Highly inefficient invisible animations (CSS/Firefox/Chrome/React)

#webdev #javascript #react #css

5 min read

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Dec 5 '20

High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python websockets

#webdev #python #programming #gamedev

13 min read

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Nov 23 '20

Designing a Snacking Bear Puzzle

#puzzle #stream #design

1 min read

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Nov 23 '20

What I look for while play-testing

#testing #programming #playtest #gamedev

8 min read

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Oct 24 '20

Edaqa's Room: Removing Red Herrings from Carnival

#stream #gamedev #webdev

1 min read

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Sep 27 '20

Edaqa's Room: Sound and Music using WebAudio

#stream #gamedev #webdev

1 min read

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Aug 16 '20

How to write a custom selector in React

#coding #react #games #architecture

8 min read

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Jul 31 '20

I Wrote an Online Escape Game

#webdev #svg #game #programming

4 min read

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Oct 30 '19

How I Evaluate You in a Code Interview

#career #programming #interview

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Oct 17 '19

Merge Sort Quick Reference

#coding #interview #computerscience #tutorial

2 min read

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Oct 1 '19

Insertion Sort Quick Reference

#coding #interview #computerscience #tutorial

2 min read

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Aug 2 '19

Your 30th Year in Code

#programming #career #motivation #psychology

7 min read

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Jul 30 '19

Checkers Interview Question: Moving a Piece

#interview #programming #coding #career

6 min read

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Jul 30 '19

Checkers Interview Question: Data Modelling

#interview #programming #coding #career

5 min read

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Jul 15 '19

The Wasteland of Wordpress

#discuss #wordpress

1 min read

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Jul 11 '19

Essential Interview Code for Maps and Dictionaries

#programming #interview #coding #career

5 min read

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Jun 29 '19

Why switch is better than if-else

#healthydebate #programming #language #codequality

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Jun 26 '19

Don’t say negative things in an interview

#interview #programming #career #speaking

4 min read

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Jun 20 '19

Nested lists and continued paragraph support in MDL

#project #programming #coding #parser

3 min read

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Jun 17 '19

Creating a custom author box on WordPress

3 min read

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Jun 16 '19

How to install Python 3.8 on Ubuntu?

#help

1 min read

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Jun 11 '19

A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations

#python #programming #types #language

3 min read

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Jun 3 '19

Listen carefully to your interviewer

#career #programming #interview #psychology

4 min read

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Jun 3 '19

FreeCodeCamp's Copyright Infringement

#news #meta #freecodecamp #writing

3 min read

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May 28 '19

Programming interview preparation

#career #programming #interview #motivation

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May 12 '19

A Parade of Web Tech

#webdev #career #programming #graveyard

8 min read

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May 3 '19

What do you code to relax?

#discuss #life #wellness #coding

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Apr 28 '19

Lists and backtick parsing (MDL Log #5)

#project #programming #coding #ux

3 min read

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Apr 25 '19

Terrible interview question: Swap variables without a temporary

#healthydebate #interview #programming #career

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Apr 19 '19

What do you think of an #offthecuff tag for stories written spontaneously and without editing?

#discuss #offthecuff

1 min read

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Apr 19 '19

Already know the interview code question? Don't admit it!

#healthydebate #programming #interview #offthecuff

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3 min read

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Apr 9 '19

3 tips for delivering more value

#podcast #value #career #productivity

2 min read

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Apr 3 '19

How do you feel about chasing internet points, badges and the gamification of everything?

#discuss

2 min read

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Mar 28 '19

A programmer's introduction to user portraits

#programming #ux #tutorial #beginners

7 min read

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Mar 22 '19

Lessons learned from recording my first class

#learning #programming #beginners #motivation

7 min read

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Mar 21 '19

Parsing footnotes and code blocks (MDL Log #4)

#project #programming #coding #ux

4 min read

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Mar 16 '19

A comment feature for author markings (MDL Log #3)

#project #programming #coding #ux

3 min read

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Mar 14 '19

A user story for my markdown parser (MDL Log #2)

#project #programming #coding #ux

3 min read

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Mar 13 '19

The Internet Lottery™ for content creators

#healthydebate #writing #career #motivation

6 min read

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Mar 7 '19

Essential Python 3 code for lists

#python #programming #beginners #interview

3 min read

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Mar 6 '19

Invented here syndrome

#programming #productivity #beginners #opensource

5 min read

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Mar 3 '19

Time to build a markdown parser and processor (MDL Log #1)

#project #programming #coding #parser

3 min read

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Mar 1 '19

Essential code for lists and vectors in an interview

#coding #beginners #career #interview

7 min read

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Feb 25 '19

Stop waving the wand of magic numbers

#programming #coding #beginners #learning

4 min read

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Feb 24 '19

Do you like mailing lists? And perfecting the podcast.

#discuss

1 min read

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Feb 19 '19

How to fail a programming interview

#programming #career #interview #skills

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6 min read

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Feb 15 '19

What is self-hosting, and is there value in it?

#discuss

1 min read

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Feb 14 '19

Learn to build a web site without using any frameworks?

#discuss

1 min read

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Feb 11 '19

Of course HTML is a programming language

#programming #webdev #career #language

4 min read

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Feb 5 '19

Do you recognize your code 6 months later?

#discuss

1 min read

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Jan 29 '19

Would you program a human?

#programming #coding #ethics #life

4 min read

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Jan 27 '19

Should code be like poetry?

#discuss

1 min read

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Jan 8 '19

Do novices make quick fixes and experts clean changes?

#discuss

1 min read

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Dec 15 '18

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function

#discuss

1 min read

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Dec 14 '18

The User

#programming #design #career #motivation

3 min read

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Dec 8 '18

What is your tale of lasagna code? (Code with too many layers)

#discuss

1 min read

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Nov 27 '18

What would you like people to know about programming?

#discuss

1 min read

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Nov 7 '18

Does programming require empathy?

#discuss

1 min read

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Sep 6 '18

We don't need a ternary operator

#programming #coding #computerscience #language

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