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Refunding linked subscriptions
Today I wanted to write about another work project that’s taken up a lot of my time: how to properly refund subscriptions that were paid for over multiple transactions. Refunding an upgraded subscription Let’s say you sign up for a subscription at a service’s Basic tier for $10, and then later upgrade that subscription to…
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The Receipt Item Tag Trick
I’m not sure I should be proud of this solution, but I wanted to discuss a technique I invented to solve a tricky problem at work. Our billing receipt database records have a separate table called “receipt tags” which are just simple strings that can be associated with a receipt. These are useful for all…
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Commas and periods make cents
A long time ago (relatively speaking), all prices displayed to users on my company’s website were rendered from their numeric data (like 10.25) into a formatted string in PHP (like £10.25) and then passed along to the client. As our frontend began to have more complex requirements for the way prices were displayed, this was…
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Thirty days hath September
Here’s a riddle for you: what’s one month past January 31? Is it February 28, the end of the month? Or is it March 2, thirty days ahead? Or March 3, thirty-one days ahead? There’s no correct answer. So if you signed up for a monthly subscription on January 31, or on October 31, or…
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Mask of the Many
As per tradition, I’ve written another D&D one-shot adventure for my friends. I recently had the pleasure (or displeasure?) to watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, The Pumaman. It was hilariously bad (good?) and I wanted to somehow capture its glory into an adventure. This is what came from it. I hope you enjoy……
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Music for The Lost Card
When I was working on my game, The Lost Card, this summer, I had never planned on having sound effects, let alone music. But as the game’s final touches came together, I found the time to do both. I wanted to write a little about the process. The sound effects came together pretty quickly, thanks…
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Notable changes in 2024 D&D
There’s no shortage of hot takes and reviews of the recently released 2024 Player’s Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons, but I figured I’d add to the pile with my own views. Caveat lector: I’ve only just started using these rules in my own games so these are just hot takes. We’ll see how it goes!…
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Using Tiled editor for The Lost Card
It’s still amazing to me that I managed to finish an actual game for the first time. A lot of my success with The Lost Card I owe to the Tiled editor. I wanted to write a little blog post to explain all the ways in which I was able to leverage it to make…
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Enemy State Machines in Lost Card
This summer I made a simple game called The Lost Card using TypeScript and the Phaser framework. I wanted to write a little about some of the things I learned during that process. This post is about enemy behavior. Once I had a character I could move around my world, I needed to have enemies…
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