https://thanish.me Notes on building things. en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:16:19 GMT https://thanish.me/blog/2025-06-08-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-6 https://thanish.me/blog/2025-06-08-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-6 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Instead of the step by step approach we followed on the previous article, what would happen if we simply asked the AI agent? Would it still be able to complete the task? https://thanish.me/blog/2025-05-25-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-5 https://thanish.me/blog/2025-05-25-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-5 Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT We can take our game a step forward by allowing users to play from multiple devices. This time, let's try to use some AI agents to do the coding. https://thanish.me/blog/2022-11-20-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-4 https://thanish.me/blog/2022-11-20-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-4 Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT This tutorial continues where we left off on part 3. We will add some tests to make sure the game is working as expected. https://thanish.me/blog/2022-11-11-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-3 https://thanish.me/blog/2022-11-11-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-3 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT This tutorial continues where we left off on part 2. We will split the code into multiple files to make it easier to maintain and implement a few more game rules. https://thanish.me/blog/2021-01-24-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-2 https://thanish.me/blog/2021-01-24-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-2 Sun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT This tutorial validates the design we used to write code on part 1. We will try whether it's possible to fix bugs easily and whether we can add some new features to the game without major code/design changes. https://thanish.me/blog/2020-12-13-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-1 https://thanish.me/blog/2020-12-13-multiplayer-tetris-game-part-1 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT A tutorial about writing a multiplayer game from scratch. Starting from solidifying the requirements and continues all the way up to creating a working prototype with vanilla js. https://thanish.me/blog/2019-02-05-creately-interview-question https://thanish.me/blog/2019-02-05-creately-interview-question Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes, we get to solve programming questions on site during software engineering interviews. This is one of the questions I used to ask from candidates. https://thanish.me/blog/2018-09-05-debugging-rxjs-code https://thanish.me/blog/2018-09-05-debugging-rxjs-code Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT This are undocumented internal details of RxJS and it can break anytime. It probably would have changed by the time you're reading this blog post. https://thanish.me/blog/2017-06-27-debugging-duplicate-click-events https://thanish.me/blog/2017-06-27-debugging-duplicate-click-events Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT While trying to debug this issue, we found out a couple of interesting things about how Angular manages event handlers. https://thanish.me/blog/2017-05-17-fabricjs-performance-hack https://thanish.me/blog/2017-05-17-fabricjs-performance-hack Wed, 17 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT The frame rate can be improved by only rendering inside a rAF callback. https://thanish.me/blog/2017-01-25-getting-the-class-in-static-methods https://thanish.me/blog/2017-01-25-getting-the-class-in-static-methods Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT This is useful when writing static methods which can be inherited by other classes. Here's an example. https://thanish.me/blog/2017-01-09-running-async-tasks-sequentially https://thanish.me/blog/2017-01-09-running-async-tasks-sequentially Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT Let's check this badly written example first. The sequence below will run each step asynchronously. https://thanish.me/blog/2016-09-07-rant--javascript-import-syntax https://thanish.me/blog/2016-09-07-rant--javascript-import-syntax Wed, 07 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMT The import syntax on javascript looks damn ugly when many items from a module. Take this example piece of code form a typical GraphQL code. https://thanish.me/blog/2016-07-13-transpiled-js-on-github https://thanish.me/blog/2016-07-13-transpiled-js-on-github Wed, 13 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT If you're maintaining a javascript project on Github there's a good chance you're using a transpiler to convert it to a format usable be older platforms and to minify it. https://thanish.me/blog/2016-01-18-using-multiple-gopaths https://thanish.me/blog/2016-01-18-using-multiple-gopaths Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT Is it possible to use multiple directories as GOPATH and how does it behave when downloading packages or when importing go pacakges from code? https://thanish.me/blog/2016-01-03-masking-graphql-errors https://thanish.me/blog/2016-01-03-masking-graphql-errors Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT The way graphql-js and express-graphql handle errors is has some issues. Consider this example server which has a bug in a resolve function. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-10-17-github-repo-license-file https://thanish.me/blog/2015-10-17-github-repo-license-file Sat, 17 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMT I, like many other developers, always use Github to host my projects. And like most of them I thought all of my public projects are by default open source. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-29-day-3--packages https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-29-day-3--packages Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT All go packages except packages from the standard library are placed inside the $GOPATH. A package consists of a set of go files in a directory. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-28-day-2--built-in-features https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-28-day-2--built-in-features Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT This tutorial consists of a number of example go programs demonstrating each feature. It is recommended to try some of them on the Go playground or on your local machine. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-27-day-1--getting-started https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-27-day-1--getting-started Mon, 27 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT The go playground is where go code can be run easily and fast therefore it makes an efficient place to try new go code. This also makes the playground useful when learning how to program with Go. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-23-limit-go-benchmark-b-n https://thanish.me/blog/2015-07-23-limit-go-benchmark-b-n Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 GMT Operations count (b.N) can be set inside the function to limit the number of operations Go benchmark does. But perhaps this is a sign there might be other issues. https://thanish.me/blog/2015-04-15-go-for-node-developers https://thanish.me/blog/2015-04-15-go-for-node-developers Wed, 15 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT I'm developing Node apps for years and started working with Go last month. So far, I like it as much as I like Node. So I hope to blog some quick tips about Go (aka Golang). https://thanish.me/blog/2014-10-11-errors-vs-bugs https://thanish.me/blog/2014-10-11-errors-vs-bugs Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMT One of the most important things I learned during past few months at MeteorHacks is the difference between errors and bugs and how they should be handled. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-09-08-isolated-testing https://thanish.me/blog/2014-09-08-isolated-testing Mon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT Just thought of sharing something about writing tests with JavaScript. Usually, it's best to keep tests simple and test just one thing per test. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-08-13-empty-function-shorthand https://thanish.me/blog/2014-08-13-empty-function-shorthand Wed, 13 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMT JavaScript is an interesting language and so far my favorite. Maybe it's just me but I find stuff some people complain about javascript such as automatic semicolon insertion. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-24-aggregation-for-firebase https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-24-aggregation-for-firebase Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Assume we need to create a realtime dashboard to show some summary values. Usually, with Firebase, we'll have to get all data to the client and process them there. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-02-organizing-files-in-meteor https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-02-organizing-files-in-meteor Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT Starting hacking on a project with Meteor is lots of fun. But things can become a mess very easily. Meteor does not have too much restrictions on how to organize our project. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-02-another-hello-world-to-meteorjs https://thanish.me/blog/2014-05-02-another-hello-world-to-meteorjs Fri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 GMT In this tutorial, I'll try to walk you through building a simple realtime wall (like a guestbook) where anyone can post messages. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-04-02-when-not-to-fork-on-github https://thanish.me/blog/2014-04-02-when-not-to-fork-on-github Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMT When I first started using Github, just like many others I simply went ahead and forked each and every repository I liked on Github. But this makes no sense at all. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-29-elastic-iframes https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-29-elastic-iframes Sat, 29 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Sometimes it become necessary to use iframes when building some web applications. Often we have them hidden but sometimes iframes can be useful visible too. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-28-setting-up-wingpanel-slim https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-28-setting-up-wingpanel-slim Fri, 28 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT Elementary OS is one of the most beautiful operating systems I've ever used. Usually I mod my OS extremely but for the first time, I left most of the OS defaults as is. https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-27-create-an-empty-git-branch https://thanish.me/blog/2014-03-27-create-an-empty-git-branch Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMT It's really easy to create a new empty git branch with no parents (AKA orphan branches). First create an orphan branch with this command.