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November 26, 2024

Kobitos and JavaScript Mazes

Hey friends,

It's a SPECIAL LATE EDITION! Sometimes you just forget to hit the schedule button and wander off on your own. 😅


Thinking Too Hard 🤔

Just take a look at this little guy:

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He's a こびと (kobito) which very roughly translates as 'forest dwarf'. They're from a Japanese kids book by Nabata Toshitaka called Kobito Zukan (Forest Dwarf Encyclopedia) that imagines a world full of little hidden people that are responsible for all sort of mundane things from making dorians smell or eating fuzzballs in your closet.

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I absolutely love how strange and specific these kobitos are. They're marvelously creative even if some of them are rather unsettling.

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David McGrogan over at Monsters and Manual goes into even greater detail. Go read about it or go visit the... official..? site


Interesting Web Bits 🍿

  • Paul Herbert writes about creating random mazes in JavaScript.
  • Not new, but a handy reminder on how to create a PREVIOUS sibling selector via :has().
  • A neat solitaire/poker/dungeon game by Jakub Wasilewski: Solitomb.
  • Looking to change up coding fonts? Try this interactive picker.
  • Mond talks about the future of C++.
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