I’ve designed and developed a new word game “Voggle” at https://voggle.com. It’s optimized for touchscreen devices but also works in modern desktop browsers. The rules are pretty simple: swipe over adjacent letters to form an English word (most Scrabble words would be accepted); click the yellow button to clear the letters and any tiles under them; random new letters will fall from above to refill the board; clear all remaining tiles to win.

I recently ported a classic puzzle game Linez from Flash to WebGL using pixi.js. It’s free to play at https://varten.com/ on any modern mobile or desktop browser. The actual gameplay animation is a lot smoother than the GIF shown above. Linez is a game with great depth and deceptively simple rules: align five or more same-colored tiles horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to earn points. On each turn, three new tiles are placed at random positions. Try to get as many point as possible before no more moves are available.

Since its debut in late 2014, BitMEX has launched over 180 derivative instruments. The infographic above shows a timeline of those products grouped by the underlying currency or index. Grayed-out contracts are no longer available. …

Update: Tracking more than one habit? On mobile? Don’t miss out Dayta at https://dayta.app/ Yesterday I watched Simone Giertz’s latest YouTube video “How I managed to meditate every day for a year” and got instantly mesmerized by her newly designed Every Day Calendar — a bamboo-framed printed circuit board with…

I’ve open-sourced bitmexgo, a golang package that enables clients to call REST APIs for the Bitmex crypto trading platform. You may use it to analyze the most liquid crypto futures market or develop trading bots in Go. Bitmex’s official golang library, which is automatically generated by swagger-codegen, turns out to…