Software Developer at #Google on #Chromium. Opinions are my own.

Joined September 2015
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11 Aug 2024
Crosswordle franΓ§ais est de retour! French crosswordle is back!
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If you've tried crosswordle.serializer.ca before and wished it were a bit easier, I added a new setting for word specific yellow / orange clues which should help. Happy puzzle solving!

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22 Dec 2022
There was a bug with today's crosswordle, I can't explain it without giving something away but you may need to force your browser to reload before it will accept the answer. Thanks to everyone who reported it early so I could fix the code quickly.
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For anyone who enjoyed playing French or Spanish crosswordle, apologies for the puzzles running out. Randomly generated puzzles would not be contextually related, and with those not being my primary language it was a non-trivial effort for me to come up with new puzzles.
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If anyone is interested in sending puzzle ideas to me, I would be happy to add them.
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25 May 2022
I'm writing a little experiment of what it might look like if the react virtual dom was dom, components were web components, and we had an update function to do the equivalent of react's reconciliation diffing. Would this be useful? Check it out at github.com/flackr/compact/
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25 May 2022
Currently, it uses a naive HTML parser I wrote so I can guarantee no nodes are created except those that are rendered, but I imagine using DOMParser and iterating over the returned document or a babel plugin would be faster.
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20 May 2022
When you have multi-word git branch names, what delimits the words?
0% underscores_ftw
100% hyphens-plz
0% TitleCase
0% letthewordsflowtogether
7 votes β€’ Final results
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13 May 2022
Can more sites listen to @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) or window.matchMedia('(prefers-color-scheme)').change? I like to be in dark mode sometimes but not all the time and having to switch every site's color scheme takes a while.
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13 May 2022
When done correctly, this is a great experience where visiting the site extends the color preference of my system and I don't need to set anything up. I'd be curious if there's obstacles to this, because many sites which do have dark themes require you to manually select it.
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29 Apr 2022
Why is there no long press (contextmenu) event dispatched on iOS Safari? It seems to be a widely used native iOS event, and has many web use cases where disambiguation is needed from tap (e.g. select item, show menu, pick up item). developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
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Well that took me longer than it should have (you'll know why if you know the answer): Crosswordle 66 (en) 7/∞* 🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟨🟩🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 crosswordle.serializer.ca/

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From my native language to one I only know a few words of (I had to try letters until it was a valid word): Crosswordle 29 (en) 4/∞* crosswordle.serializer.ca/ Crosswordle 8 (fr) 5/∞* crosswordle.serializer.ca/?l… Crosswordle 2 (es) 6/∞ crosswordle.serializer.ca/?l…

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28 Feb 2022
I added Spanish translations and puzzles to Crosswordle crosswordle.serializer.ca/?l… on the weekend. I'm not a Spanish speaker so my apologies for any poor translations, but I'm happy to fix them.

20 Feb 2022
Crosswordle is now available in French! If you or anyone you know would be interested, try it! Crosswordle est maintenant disponible en franΓ§ais! Si vous ou quelqu'un que vous connaissez seriez intΓ©ressΓ©, essayez-le! crosswordle.serializer.ca/?l…

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18 Feb 2022
I never thought I'd see 10,000 daily users coming to flackr.github.io/crosswordle…, thanks for sharing the word puzzle joy!
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20 Feb 2022
I'm happily relocated on cloudflare now, running on my own domain at crosswordle.serializer.ca/. I hope the meta tag redirect from github pages worked for everyone and the JS snippet should forward custom puzzle links correctly.

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20 Feb 2022
And just like that, 10,000 daily users became 20,000 🀯
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It's been long enough since I came up with these that I was able to do it without remembering the answer! Crosswordle 7 4/∞* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 flackr.github.io/crosswordle…

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