Here’s something that might sound strange. Today, while playing the retro puzzle game “Mushroom Man” — a great throwback to “Chip’s Challenge” — I noticed how similar one of the levels was to solving a programming contest question. In level 113 “Don’t …
I consider myself a Windows power user, having used this OS almost exclusively on all my PCs and laptops since I was a student with Windows 95, and now as a professional software developer on Windows 10. Over the years, I’ve …
Six months ago, the battery in my 2010 Mazda 3’s key fob (aka “flip-key”) totally died and I needed to replace it. The battery in these things is a CR1620, which I couldn’t find anywhere in stores, so I ordered the …
Several months ago, my favourite gaming mouse, a Logitech G500, developed an annoying problem that I will call “ghost clicks”. This is how I explained it to Logitech support: If I hold the left mouse button for a long time, …
This is a bookmarklet that sets a dark background colour on Kongregate game pages. The goal of this script is to dim nearly all the elements on the page, so as not to distract the player with bright lights, while keeping …
I found these maps originally here, but there were two level locations missing (Clanker’s Cavern and Freezeezy Peak), so I decided to edit them. I added level labels, as well as colour-coded the cauldron portals — cauldrons with the same colour …
Introduction I was browsing the Kongregate forums one day, when a post caught my eye. It was a list of broken games on the site that still had achievements to earn, and the clever ways that people had found to …
TSN.ca offers free video-on-demand (VOD) replays of full Eurocup matches this year. However, on the same page, they also have links to highlight clips, whose titles are unfortunately shown along with the final scores. So if you were planning to watch …
When Apple first announced their first ever tablet, the iPad, I wasn’t too interested. Like many people, I laughed it off as a giant iPod Touch with a silly name. A large, expensive touchscreen with no physical keyboard or buttons, …
Some interesting graphs I conjured up a while back for achievements earned on Kongregate, the popular Flash gaming portal. The first one is based on user data collected by MrRubix in late August 2011. It shows how many users have collected a …