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Steven Lambert

Steven Lambert

A Comprehensive Guide to Building and Packaging an Electron App

I recently went through the gauntlet this is trying to build and package an Electron app. I say gauntlet as the entire process of figuring…

Mar 7, 2021

Mar 7, 2021

Steven Lambert

Calculating the Position of a Game Object Relative to the Camera in Phaser 3

While working on Keridwen, an accessible JavaScript puzzle game, I needed to get the absolute position of a game object in Phaser 3. That…

Feb 28, 2021

Feb 28, 2021

Steven Lambert

Reducing Axe-core File Size: Trie Stored as Nested Arrays

Recently axe-core decided to adopt a size budget as part of an ongoing effort to improve our performance. We noted that axe-cores file…

Sep 24, 2020

Webpack-bundle-analyzer output of axe-core showing which files take up the most file size.

Sep 24, 2020

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What’s new in Kontra.js v7

Kontra.js v7 was released a few weeks ago. With it brings a host of new functionality and components as well as a new way to reduce the…

Aug 28, 2020

A blue button with the text “Click me”

Aug 28, 2020

Steven Lambert

Custom 404 Page Without a Server

I recently wanted to know if it was possible to create a custom 404 page for a website if you didn’t have access to the backend server. I…

Aug 23, 2020

Aug 23, 2020

Steven Lambert

Ravaged Space Postmortem

Last month I participated in the Australian Bushfire Charity Jam. The premise of the game jam was to create a game in two weeks that would…

Mar 3, 2020

A condensed layout with a single table which describes the status of each system, each action with it’s associated cost, and system load

Mar 3, 2020

Steven Lambert

Improving Axe-core Color Contrast Performance

Over the past year, I’ve been making significant performance improvements to axe-core. A few of our rules were very slow on large pages…

Jan 19, 2020

Performance graph showing lots of wide stacks with each ending in an Updated Tree rendering call caused by either elementsFromPoint or scrollIntoView

Jan 19, 2020

Steven Lambert

Detecting Ligature Icons With JavaScript

While working on axe-core, an accessibility testing library, we ran into an interesting problem. We needed to be able to detect when a…

Oct 22, 2019

Oct 22, 2019

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js13kGames

Kontra.js Postmortem

A postmortem about maintaining Kontra.js, games made with it for this years Js13kGames competition, and future plans.

Oct 9, 2019

Kontra.js Postmortem

Oct 9, 2019

Steven Lambert

Unit Testing a Vue.js Functional Component that Returns Multiple Root Nodes

Unit testing a functional component with a render function that returns multiple root nodes is a bit tricky. Lets explore how to do it.

Feb 10, 2019

Feb 10, 2019

Steven Lambert

Steven Lambert

Web developer, HTML5 game developer, JavaScript enthusiast. Creator of the kontra.js game mirco-library https://github.com/straker/kontra

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