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mazakon Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company (2019)

There's also an alternative approach to put a leading 1 called Holocene Calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

mazakon A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS

Well I guess that's the downfall of the touch screen era

mazakon A first-person engine in 265 lines of JS

I'm really surprised that it's 265 and not 256... I mean, there's got to be a good reason not to make it a round number, right? I'm mind blown anyways...

mazakon How This Freelancer Hacked His Hourly Rate

It's f(x) = (x0 + xn) * n/2 Where x0 - is the first element (here: 1) xn - last element (here: 3000) n - number of elements (here 3000)

That makes it: $4,501,500

mazakon Getting website registration completely wrong

I like that 'Rules of Usability'[1] that the article links to. It could be used as a great checklist for your apps.

1: http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taouu/html/ch01s03.html#rul...