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Your birth time is lying to you: a time-zone rabbit hole in a Chinese astrology calculator

I built a calculator for BaZi — Chinese "Four Pillars" birth charts. Whatever you think of the interpretive tradition (and I'll get to that), the input math turned out to be a genuinely deep time-zone…

  • Chinese astrology calculator reveals time-zone discrepancies in BaZi calculations
  • Three factors contribute to solar time and clock time differences: DST, longitude, equation of time
  • Code calculates UTC offset using IANA tzdb, heuristics for DST, and longitude normalization

Scrap (2006)

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From Prompt to Playable: Building a Phaser Survival Game with Codex and SpriteShip

There is a big difference between a game prototype that technically works and one that feels like a game. Movement, spawning, upgrades, and collision can be built with colored rectangles.

  • Combines Phaser 3, Codex, and SpriteShip for top-down survival game
  • Generates animated characters, enemies, weapons, collectibles, and boss encounter
  • Streamlined asset integration speeds up development process

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Hello everyone, I am new to coding just begun to learn the ins and outs of coding and what it can do. I am in the process of getting my Full Stack Developer certificates.

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