Fix It Shack — Swapped the puzzle grid to SVG. Instantly legible on a phone; instantly slower on a Chromebook. Two steps forward, one Chromebook back.
Backstage
Backstage feed (RSS)Build logs. Unpolished on purpose, and the place where the projects actually get written about.
Each project has its own feed too, linked from its page on mcallister.ws — useful if you are following one thing rather than all of them.
- Quizbowl
- 3 entries · last one
- Fix It Shack
- 1 entry · last one
- Sidequest
- 1 entry · last one
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Quizbowl — Got the scoring screen working on a projector at 1080p; phones still lag about a second behind on the reveal. Suspect the websocket fan-out, not the render.
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Quizbowl — Rewrote the buzzer path to trust the server clock instead of the phone’s. Ties dropped from “constant” to “twice in forty rounds”.
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Quizbowl — First real run: 38 people, one projector, one very hot laptop. It held.
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Sidequest — A builder for scavenger hunts and self-guided walking tours. Drop pins on a map, write the clues, hand people a link.