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Adding locations to TimeSync

Sharing a minimalist map of world times I created recently: mattravenhall.github.io/TimeSync/

📍 Add/remove/hide locations
⛅ View local weather
🎨 Customise markers
💾 Import/export locations
🌗 Dark/Light mode
☀️ Show/hide daylight

#programming #opensource #javascript #webdev

(and if you enjoy your cabin retreat, you can rate it at ldjam.com/events/ludum...)

The Retreat by Matt Ravenhall Will you find peace in the woods, or something else?

Had a great birthday weekend taking part in @ludumdare.com with Becky. Her first game jam and she absolutely aced it!

You can play The Retreat on itch: mattravenhall.itch.io/the-retreat

#ld57 #indiedev #ldjam #godot

Loving the trees, I ended up with a very similar design! (ignore the giant blue placeholder object).

Really excited by the progress we're making as a duo for this weekend's #LD57. Totally blown away by Becky's models so far - she's literally never done any 3D modelling before.

#LDJam #gamedev #godot

Do most themes usually have a negative score?

I definitely read this as a political hot take before I realised you were talking about the AI-generated image..

Worth giving jolt a try perhaps? github.com/godot-jolt/j...

This solved a bunch of default Godot physics issues I was having when creating mattravenhall.itch.io/robodojo

Extraction by Matt Ravenhall Command a crew of explorers across an alien world

Just submitted my entry to #BrackeysGameJam - Extraction is a choose-your-story exploration game.

mattravenhall.itch.io/extraction

#godot #indiedev #gamedev

Looks awesome, nice work so far!

Finally got a decent wireframe mesh working in #godot - these should make a nice addition to my #BrackeysGameJam submission! #gamedev

Crikey, hope you're feeling better!

Looks awesome!

Just checked it out, really neat idea!

Really pleased with how ROBODOJO ended up, and I'm loving the different bot builds people are creating.

You can check it out at mattravenhall.itch.io/robodojo

#gamedev #indiedev #godot #PirateJam #gamejam

Really cool idea, nice job!

Looks great!

ROBODOJO by Matt Ravenhall Robot Roguelike

Had a blast creating ROBODOJO for the latest #piratejam #gamejam.

It's Robot Wars meets roguelike.

#godot #indiedev #gamedev

Nice, I'll have to check this out - thanks for sharing!

#AdventOfCode day 25 is complete! This is the first year I've got all 50 stars. 🥳

I hope everyone has a great Christmas! 🎄

#Python solution on GitHub

Screenshot of a subset of my manual inspection plot, showing the last swap I identified (qff and qnw).

I've probably missed a fancy coded solution for part two of today's #AdventOfCode but went for the eyeball approach instead. Three of the swaps were fairly easy to spot, but one was particularly elusive (see attached). One day left!

#Python solutions on GitHub

Today's #AdventOfCode initially looked like it was gearing up to be a hardcore graph problem, but was ultimately solvable in <0.5s with a couple of for loops and some basic optimisations. A nice start to the day!

My #python solution is on GitHub

My Advent of Code star totals for the last few years

Much nicer #AdventOfCode today - just took some careful reading. This also marks the further I've made it through an AoC. Hopefully the next few days don't get too busy!

#Python solutions: github.com/mattravenhal...

Screenshot from my brute force approach that _almost_ worked

#AdventOfCode was definitely a challenge today, as I ended up with several solutions that worked for the test cases but not the real input.

For part 2, caching helped a bit but ultimately I had to ditch the full sequences and go for counts - similar to Day 19.

My #Python solution is on GitHub

Visual debugging of path skips from today's (2024 Day 20) Advent of Code challenge.

Spent a bunch of time faffing around with skip visualisations today, only to realise that the paths weren't actually needed for part 2... At least debugging part one visually was enjoyable!

#AdventOfCode #Python solutions on GitHub: github.com/mattravenhal...

I wasn't aware of this site, thanks for sharing it. It's nice to see that someone out there has been pip installing the random project packages I've uploaded.

Snippet from my (ultimately scrapped) trie-based approach

Initially implemented a trie-based approach that tracked all sequences for today's #AdventOfCode. But then had to simplify this to a mix of str.startswith and counts to support caching for part two.

#Python solutions: github.com/mattravenhal...

Subset of my path finding visualisation

Fairly straight-forward application of Dijkstra + binary search to solve #AdventOfCode today.

I was expecting part 2 to involve placing bytes with each step, but off-by-one errors were the real villain.

#python solutions on GitHub

I feel your pain!

Handwritten messy attempts to unpick the logic behind today's Advent of Code challenge.

Pretty intense #AdventOfCode today, I ended up down several optimisation rabbit holes as I tried to fully understand and reverse engineer the algorithm. Only to be hit with sudden realisation when I spotted the blocks of eight in the iterative output!

#python solutions on GitHub