I’m a bit of a classical string instruments nerd. I can’t pay any instrument but I listen to classical music a lot. Sempi and I like to name our trucks. Sempi goes for the classics like Mary Anne and Mike Mulligan. I usually go for Jacquline Du Pre, Yoyo Ma and Stradivarius. Me: So Yoyo Ma is driving the Stradivarius (the dump truck) and Jacquline Du Pre is digging the dirt with Guarneri (the excavator)....

Vian is starting to pull himself up. He stood up and tried to grab everything in his reach. Me: We shouldn’t keep the water cup here. Vian might grab it. Yoshi: We just have to keep an eye on him. You might think he has tiny T-Rex hands, but nooo. He’s more like an octopus with tentacles.

TL;DR: I built a little truck “game” to teach my son alphabets. I started watching http://javascript30.com a couple of days ago. It’s a series of 30 videos that uses vanilla Javascript to do amazing things. I have only done the first two videos in the series. Based on what I learned in those two videos, I decided to write a small game. My son is a fan of trucks, so I cobbled together a truck race that teaches him alphabets....

Some of you might know that I created a couple of open source projects that became successful. I added a donate button to one of the project’s homepage. A couple of days ago, I received a donation through that link (thanks, Daniel). This is the second donation I’ve received since it’s inception. Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised. My current job pays me well, so I decided to funnel the donation to the following charities....

For some unknown reason, I looked up GWBasic today and downloaded an emulator. GWBasic was the first programming language that I learned. I have fond memories of that language. I love the fact that I could switch to a graphics mode and start drawing circles and squares. After about 30 minutes of fumbling around, my muscle memory kicked in and I started to write a simple program to draw some shapes on the screen....