Vanguard unit price plotting

• I want to keep track of particular Vanguard ETFs
• The Vanguard website doesn't let me track multiple ETFs
• Turns out the Vanguard website relies on an externally exposed API
• Along the way I picked up
• JQuery
• Plotly
• https://vanguardplotly.kkwoo.repl.co/
  

Diceware offsite

• I want to create passwords using my browser
• Diceware is good
• Not having physical dice and the Diceware list is inconvenient
• I have a JS page on this blog already but I wanted to publish elsewhere
• So I copied it to https://diceware-atyourownrisk.kkwoo.repl.co/
  

Chaos Theory Flash Game

• There's a Flash game I like but Flash won't be supported past Dec-2020
• I wrote a cut-down version with HTML5 at https://chaos-theory-flash.kkwoo.repl.co/
• There were a few challenges
• Getting started
• Learning the following from scratch
• HTML5
• CSS
• JS
• Suitable libraries
• At first I went with phaser and other game libraries
• I departed from game libraries because they were suited to platform games and other traditional games involving a protagonist player and enemies 
• So I chose Pixi.js
  
• Pixi.js
• GSAP
• Limited concentration time
• This led to increased planning
• Resulted in several minimum viable products
• Learning pixi.js
• Get the quickstart working
• Get shape sprites working
• Get containers working
• Get collision detection working
• Copy/paste spicyoghurt code
• Get tweening working
• GSAP piece
• Construct game logic
• Something to play the game once
• Add a main screen
• Add a link to start a new game
• I did this only because I'm tired of hitting reload on the browser and wasting mobile data
• Next steps are
• make it more like the original
• Cool comments/insults based on scoring
• 3 rounds instead of 1
• refactor the code because it's terrible design
• However, I'm content with the game as it now stands

"npx degit sveltejs/template abc" resulting in "could not fetch remote https://github.com/sveltejs/template"

• at first I thought it was a firewall issue
• I banged away trying different things including stopping the firewall
• none of this worked because the firewall wasn't the problem
• I was too thick to stop and walk away
  
• instead I took the kids to swimming class
• afterwards, I was playing around and ran "npx degit" for fun and induced an error and discovered:
• (Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
• I ran "npx --trace-warnings degit sveltejs/template abc" which gave:
• npm ERR! code ENOENT
  npm ERR! syscall spawn git
  npm ERR! path git
  npm ERR! errno -2
  npm ERR! enoent Error while executing:
  npm ERR! enoent undefined ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/sveltejs/template.git
  npm ERR! enoent
  npm ERR! enoent
  npm ERR! enoent spawn git ENOENT
  npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
  npm ERR! enoent
  
  npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-12-12T04_25_29_798Z-debug.log
• At first, I thought I was missing ssh
• Then I discovered I was missing git
• Running "npx --trace-warnings degit sveltejs/template proj02" resulted in failure
• command not found: template
  
• But once I removed "--trace-warnings" I had success:
• DESKTOP-NNBAUML:~# npx  degit sveltejs/template proj01
  > cloned sveltejs/template#master to proj01