Jesse Freeman's Tech Blog

The Dark Side of Supporting an Open-Source Project

Oct 23, 202111 min read

I've been working on my Fantasy Console, Pixel Vision 8, primarily by myself for the past six years. I've poured thousands of hours and hundreds of...

The Dark Side of Supporting an Open-Source Project

NodeJS + Pixel Art + Robot Arm = Fun

Oct 16, 20219 min read

On Twitter, a few people I follow post some fantastic pictures of generative art they are "printing" with plotters. If you're not familiar with...

NodeJS + Pixel Art + Robot Arm = Fun

I Made A Game In 72 Hours That Uses GitHub Issues To Crowd Source Maps

Oct 14, 20217 min read

Space Station 8 is a Micro Platformer created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 49 based on a game I used to play on my original Macintosh called...

I Made A Game In 72 Hours That Uses GitHub Issues To Crowd Source Maps

Open Sourcing My Tools For Generating Tutorials From Source Code

Oct 12, 20218 min read

I have been working on my game engine, Pixel Vision 8, for the better part of 6 years now. One of the challenges of working on any sizeable open...

Open Sourcing My Tools For Generating Tutorials From Source Code

JavaScript for Beginners: Objects & Functions

Sep 26, 20215 min read

Welcome to my series on JavaScript for beginners. In part one, we learned about variables and arrays. In this post, we'll cover how to use objects and...

JavaScript for Beginners: Objects & Functions

JavaScript for Beginners: Variables & Arrays

Sep 24, 20215 min read

My oldest son is learning programming in his 7th-grade class. He's been using MIT's Scratch, which is a visual coding language, and he is about to...

JavaScript for Beginners: Variables & Arrays