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"Blog"

Really more of a changelog than a blog, but calling it a blog makes it sound cooler.

Bringing Down the Landlord - A Chinese Card Game

Fresh off the success of my recent multiplayer Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, I wanted to see how far I can go with PeerJS. As such, I've decided to create an old Chinese card game called Bringing Down the Landlord, or 斗地主. This is a game I frequently play with my grandparents and extended family. It was created during the Chinese Communist Revolution, if you're wondering about the name. The game itself…

Multiplayer Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe

Back in 2014, inspired by how much time I spent playing it during finals week, I coded Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe. For years, like all other games on my site, it was solely client-side, meaning you had to physically sit in front of the same computer as your friend in order to play. Despite this, it was by far the most played game on my website, at least by me and the people I…

Xing 3.0

This website was created five years ago as nothing more than an experimental playground for me to mess around in, confident that no one would ever look at it. Hence the banner on the home page proudly proclaiming "Welcome to my Worthless Site!" However, I've reached a point where I'd like to start curating a website I can actually link people to, even though as of this moment, there's nothing particularly noteworthy…