Maybe Macboook Pro is, but definitely no the Air version. Going back hometown for a long Chinese New Year holiday, this new toy MacBook Air 13 2018 is the computer that I’m going to rely on for more than a week. Although I bought it for productivity works which it handles pretty well like coding and internet browsing, I still would like to check out how it performs on my daily casual game.

I’ve been on the Deadcells for last couple of months because of the quick playing style that I can have a quick run in the middle of work.

Installed Steam on the device, download the game, pop in batteries for the first time on the Xbox One controller, the gaming time on Macbook is ready.

The performance is disappointing

I thought pixelated game like Deadcells should not put too much stress on the rather light spec of this Macbook but I was wrong. The game constantly running at around 50 fps which feels super laggy and my personal minimum FPS is 60, lower than that, not playable.

This is also the first time I feel the severe heat and loud fan noise coming from this gentle device. I guess gaming is bad for the health of Macbook.

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Finally the long waited 1st batch of powered down Steem has been liquided yesterday, the main purpose of this powering down was to speculate on the spiking of Steem price which I’m shorting for quite a while.

But damn, Steem price seems like started to crash down from the “ATH” $0.43 few day ago and now hanging around $0.35, what a coincidence. Now I’m not sure whether I should just sell the liquid Steem now or just staying put.

Timing the market was never fun but I guess Steem should belong under the $0.30 line.

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Despite the damaged but still playable rims, the basketball court looks fantastic especially under the morning bright sun. Such an inviting-to-play scene when I passed by it on the way to the office. We are going to have a great ball night tonight, I thought.

530pm, the sky went dark all of a sudden and 5 minutes before that the evening sun was still roasting the world. Typical Singapore weather, unpredictable as usual. It started drizzling, and fortunately, it was just a short and weak drizzling.

We were still able to carry on the basketball night perfectly, it was like a perfect night was stolen from the god of weather, nothing feels better this way.

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Today I took off the crafted equipment off all 3 of my knights and started selling them according to the market price. Started the game last August(did not expect it was that long, feels like yesterday!), I had a rather great journey on my first ever game on the blockchain.

The reasons for me to quit including:

• The economy of the marketplace is crashing, constantly. Material that can be sold 1 EOS can drops to 0.5 EOS in a matter of weeks.
• Maintaining profitability means I have to keep spending more EOS for stronger weapon and armour in order to hunt higher level materials. This vicious cycle is never-ending.
• The game design wasn’t improved much since the beginning, ex. there is no notification when a pet has completed its exhibition for user to collect its loot.
• I grew bored.

In other words, if making money is your purpose of playing this game, go elsewhere.

All in all, this game have so much to improve on and I had a great time on it. All the best to the development team!

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I’ve been using Webflow to draft the design of my custom webpage for a side project. Due to the visual tool limitation, I had to export the raw code and customize the functionalities, and this is when I found the disaster in the JavaScript file webflow.js. Take a look below.

A fucking huge wall of code without formatting and full with meaningless variables like a and t. This could be any developer’s nightmare(maybe not to the damn experienced one), and the disgusting code like this is so uninviting to for anyone to work with. Where is the promised clean code generation by Webflow algorithm?

Turns out, the code was minified.

My very limited development vocabulary reminds me of the idea of code minification. Checking the Webflow’s /project setting/hosting, it turns out the all the projects has been set to minified HTML and JS by default.

The solution was easy, to get the readable source code to work outside Webflow, simply uncheck the all the minification options and export the code again. I’m glad the code has become so human-readable eventually.

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Steem being one of my largest crypto stakes has given me such a complicated feeling in the past few days. The price is neglecting all the FUD in the community and heading upward, especially while the whole market is plumbing. This definitely looks fishy and some big insiders are surely doing something behind the scene.

I’m worried about the Steem platform because this is the biggest FUD moment I’ve ever seen in 2 years on the very platform, and this is enough scares all the potential and existing stakeholders away.
I’m glad for the Steem platform because we finally wake up and face our biggest fear and conflict in the platform, the STINC.

While I personally disapprove the very company that made this platform, like almost everyone else, I have little to no say to the incoming to-be-made decision. The only thing I can do is to speculate and sell my Steem away hoping to buy back low in the future. Whoever is gaming the Steem market price now, don’t stop before I at least powered down my first 1/13 SP.

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