edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y @mortoray

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

Joined:
Apr 16, 2017

edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y
articles - 157 total

System Architecture for Edaqa's Room

An overview of all the deployed components in my multiplayer game

Learn More 9 4Apr 15 '21

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

Reducing the CPU load of Firefox and Chrome due to invisible CSS animations

Learn More 12 0Jan 16 '21

High-Throughput Game Message Server with Python websockets

Tracking an error in my game, stressing over a fix, and the code to replace it all

Learn More 25 2Dec 5 '20

Designing a Snacking Bear Puzzle

I'm designing another single puzzle. This time I've found some cute, and hungry, hipster bears.

Learn More 6 0Nov 23 '20

What I look for while play-testing

Tracking and evaluating individuals playing my game

Learn More 18 0Nov 23 '20

Edaqa's Room: Removing Red Herrings from Carnival

Improving gameplay by removing puzzle misdirection

Learn More 2 0Oct 24 '20

Edaqa's Room: Sound and Music using WebAudio

DevBlog video for how I do sound and music in my escape game

Learn More 13 0Sep 27 '20

How to write a custom selector in React

Recreating useSelector for an app that doesn't use Redux.

Learn More 22 0Aug 16 '20

I Wrote an Online Escape Game

All about the puzzle game I wrote with lots of web tech for maximum entertainment value!

Learn More 49 7Jul 31 '20

How I Evaluate You in a Code Interview

A review of the key skills you need to demonstrate in a coding interview. This will help you improve your evaluation.

Learn More 634 30Oct 30 '19

Merge Sort Quick Reference

Code, key points, and complexity of the merge sort algorithm

Learn More 48 4Oct 17 '19

Insertion Sort Quick Reference

Code, key points, and complexity of the insertion sort algorithm

Learn More 34 2Oct 1 '19

Your 30th Year in Code

A look at the personal problems faced in decades of programming.

Learn More 91 4Aug 2 '19

Checkers Interview Question: Moving a Piece

An interview question about moving a checkers piece around the board. This part uses grid-movement logic, and error checking.

Learn More 19 0Jul 30 '19

Checkers Interview Question: Data Modelling

An interview question based on checkers with data modelling and error checking. Step-by-step walkthrough and talking points.

Learn More 50 0Jul 30 '19

The Wasteland of Wordpress

My experience setting up my sites

Learn More 36 10Jul 15 '19

Essential Interview Code for Maps and Dictionaries

Maps are one of the fundamental data structures in coding. Knowing how to use a map will help you avoid grief on many questions.

Learn More 57 0Jul 11 '19

Why switch is better than if-else

A look at how to produce cleaner and more correct code.

Learn More 140 17Jun 29 '19

Don’t say negative things in an interview

An interview is not the place to voice negative thoughts. Avoid the common traps blocking you from making a good impression.

Learn More 89 18Jun 26 '19

Nested lists and continued paragraph support in MDL

New features for complex blocks and indented lists.

Learn More 7 0Jun 20 '19

Creating a custom author box on WordPress

How to use custom short-codes to create an author-box in a template.

Learn More 7 0Jun 17 '19

How to install Python 3.8 on Ubuntu?

I'm having no luck getting Python 3.8 running on (K)Ubuntu 18.04. I've got the main program installed...

Learn More 19 5Jun 16 '19

A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations

Trying to get some static type checking revealed some fundamental flaws in the tools.

Learn More 18 10Jun 11 '19

Listen carefully to your interviewer

Understanding your interviewer is critical to your success during an interview.

Learn More 72 0Jun 3 '19

FreeCodeCamp's Copyright Infringement

Another article to ensure this doesn't slip by.

Learn More 61 6Jun 3 '19

Programming interview preparation

An introduction to my new site Interview.Codes

Learn More 131 6May 28 '19

A Parade of Web Tech

Obsolete, abandoned, and yet not forgotten, tales of the sites I built

Learn More 24 0May 12 '19

What do you code to relax?

My projects have me jumping through hoops of a wide variety of technology, talking to people, writing...

Learn More 106 36May 3 '19

Lists and backtick parsing (MDL Log #5)

Adding support for lists and escaping code fragments in the documents.

Learn More 8 2Apr 28 '19

Terrible interview question: Swap variables without a temporary

Examination of interview questions that don't evaluate candidates well

Learn More 198 83Apr 25 '19