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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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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

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No LeetCode. No club leadership. No internship on my resume. Still got the offer. I wrote about how that happened — and it involved a semester I almost didn't recover from. What actually got your first interview? 👀

How I Got a Job Offer as a Fresher in an AI-Fearing Market — Without LeetCode or Club Leaderships on My Resume Dhruv Jani Dhruv Jani Dhruv Jani Follow Aug 20 How I Got a Job Offer as a Fresher in an…

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AWS EC2 Deployment — Q&A Reference

A reference guide compiled from deploying two Node.js/Docker apps to AWS EC2, covering the real issues hit and how they were fixed. 1. Getting Connected Q: How do I SSH into my EC2 instance?

• Use chmod 400 and ssh command to access EC2 instance
• Verify connected instance via curl commands for ID and public IP
• Allocate Elastic IP for stable public IP and HTTPS setup

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