Rafael Epplée

I recently built a new form for ties , with lots of interactivity. It's for editing a bookmark and connecting it to lists: A screencast of a form for editing a bookmark. The user presses a button to rename the bookmark to the title fetched from the bookma

January 2025 update: linkblocks is now named ties . This post still uses the old name for posterity. Linkblocks has been selected for a grant by NLnet! The grant's goal is to implement federation, full-text search, and collaborative features. This is the

Last week, we organized the Solarpunk Camp 2024 , a gathering of people looking to make utopias imaginable and tangible. The event was better than I ever imagined, with incredibly generous and warm-hearted people exchanging knowledge and dreams about comm

Rafa'ee is competing in Games for second time, having rowed in Rio eight years ago

I just received the fourth rejection from a public funding program for one of my software projects. I'd like to tell you how this made me feel. I have observed others expressing frustration and I think it's healthy to discus...

January 2025 update: linkblocks is now named ties . This post still uses the old name for posterity. tl;dr: linkblocks is a tool for collecting and organizing bookmarks together. Try out the linkblocks demo here. The web is full of knowledge and art. Of c

When building archive.observer , a page for browsing the AskHistorians subreddit archives, I wanted to preview the text for each post in a list: Posts in that subreddit can be quite long, so I wanted to truncate the preview to a fixed number of lines. If

Godot 4 games exported to HTML use a JavaScript feature called SharedArrayBuffer . This allows sharing memory between the main thread and service workers efficiently. However, it makes it possible for scripts loaded from other pages to access this shared

When we started developing our recently-released mini-strategy game 2 Planets , we wanted to add networked multiplayer support. Since the game is a side project and would be released for free, we didn't want to spend much time and money on maintaining ded

I've recently finished building a VR project in Unity. Since I've worked with Unity before and have gathered a little experience, I'm going to talk about that and highlight some topics I'd love to see addressed in the next few years. Side note Check out m