I'm Jasper, a developer

This is my website

I'm primarily a web developer, but I dabble in other technologies.

As a strong supporter of Progressive Web Apps, I like to get creative with some of the more unusual web APIs, such as the gamepad API.

Many apps available today, actually use Electron, to take advantage of web technologies, while running as a standalone executable.

While there are a few cases where this is still necessary, the increased amount of powerful web APIs available to PWAs, and in particular service workers, make PWAs more lightweigh and cross platform than an Electron app.

Frameworks such as React, are worse than Electron apps. While React has it's advantages, such as ease of element re-usability, it produces beautiful bulky webpages constrained in functionality by React.

I try to do things which have previously been the domain of bulky platform specific apps in new ways.

Many of my projects can also be found on my github profile

This is a demo html file with a js script which can transform any webpage into a gamepad navigable site

This is a work in progress, so it is not fully commented up yet.

The script first finds all button elements. When the gamepad joysticks are moved, the script calculates the angle which the joystick is being pushed, to then calculate the closest button to the line drawn at the angle of the joystick from the currently selected button.

It also allows assigning angles to the gamepad buttons, such as the arrow buttons, so that the button for each direction can be used to navigate the page as well.

A minified snake game, written in html, js and css. Exactly 1.8kb

The file smallSnake.html is my ultimate version, which I minified myself.

The file snake.html is the version of the game as I first programmed it. Not all of the variables are shortened, but it is an accurate representation of how I think when programming.

Both programs do not follow best practices for variable naming, and normally I would not program in this way if I wanted to work on the code later.

The smaller version does have some additional features which I added after I finished minifying it and I still had some spare space.

While the variable names are atrocious, the game should actually be quite easy to expand and build upon, because of it's simplicity and I welcome forks of this repository.

If you want a bit of a challenge, try to un-minify the file smallSnake.html, to work out what each variable does. I made a list of variable names and functions somewhere while working on the project, and so I have the answers if anyone has a burning question about a specific part of the code.