TL;DR: a game I wrote for the Acorn Risc PC in 1996 is now playable in a browser at mikegoatly.github.io/rhft. You can even create and share your own level packs!. Thirty years ago I wrote a game called Rock Hard Fluffy Thing for the Acorn Risc PC. It’s a puzzle platformer, written in ARM assembly with a level editor …

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TL;DR: gh stack rebase –no-trunk is a reviewer friendly way to rebase your stacked PRs. Just as the blog title suggests. Regarding GitHub stacked PRs: If you’ve already got someone reviewing a PR and they’ve requested changes, the temptation is to just do gh stack rebase to get all your stacks updated again. Out of …

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If you’re packaging a .NET desktop app for the Windows Store using a WAP (Windows Application Packaging) project, and you’re also running an obfuscator as a post-build step, there’s a subtle trap waiting for you. The app works perfectly when you run the desktop .exe directly — but the packaged version crashes …

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LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub Performance has always been a core focus for LIFTI. For v7, I looked at the tokenization pipeline and found an opportunity to significantly reduce memory allocations. The solution? Replacing StringBuilder with a custom …

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LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub LIFTI v7 introduces anchor operators that let you constrain matches to the start or end of fields. This feature was requested for exact match scenarios - like finding records where a field contains exactly one specific value, or …

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LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub LIFTI v7 introduces a new query operator that’s been on my wishlist for a while: the And-Not operator (&!). This operator allows you to efficiently subtract one set of search results from another - perfect for those “find this …

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I use Azure Static Web Apps in a couple of places, this blog and the Chordle site. While updating the templates they use, I found that the deployment builds started to break because the included Hugo version was out of date. The first I fixed up was this blog. I was getting this error: template: …

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This post is me having a conversation with an AI called ChatGPT, using it as a time saving tool for writing code. I’d been thinking about some code I needed to write in LIFTI. I knew what I wanted it to do and how I was going to implement it, but as an old friend once told me “Just because you know how to do something, …

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The Azure CLI is my preferred way of working with Azure from the command line - I love the discoverability of the commands. az –help is always a great reminder of the root commands and I can keep applying –help as I work my down the various levels - it’s much easier to remember than all the various Az PowerShell …

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LIFTI is an open source full text index library for .NET - you can check it out on GitHub The Visual Studio Go To Symbol feature is smart enough that if you miss out letters it can still match with pretty good accuracy: Now that LIFTI support wildcard matching (and fuzzy matching too!) I thought this would be a good …

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