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It's been a few days since I tried to contribute anything to the Hackoberfest this year, but I think I found a decent project for my last Pull Request: Super Tiny Icons .  It's a collection of logos made using Scalable Vector Graphics , with the goal of each logo being under 1 KB. I originally was going to create the logo for Kotlin Programming Language , but then I saw this "issue" where they requested the Microsoft logo .  I'm surprised no one took it!  The latest Microsoft logo is just four squares with a solid color for each square !  With such a simple request, I forked the project and got to work! I wanted to hand code it, because Inkscape made my shrub for Jedulz's game super huge.  It ended up being smaller to just export as a PNG.  Since I've never hand coded an SVG, I searched the internet and found this guide to hard coding an SVG . After reading that guide, it seemed appropriate to download the the PNG of the Microsoft logo and take so...

I feel like helping Jedulz, today!  I've been thinking about his fishy game , it's pretty good so far, but I'm feeling like the game might have a huge  issue if you want to play on mobile: your finger would cover up your fish and you wouldn't be able to tell the size of it. I hope Apple doesn't mind me doing this, but for a solution, I was thinking about how they solve this issue in iOS: It would be hard to see where I would be placing the cursor because my finger would be covering that space.  However, Apple placed this feature in iOS where this magnifying glass shows you the area that supposed to be covered by your finger.  I think that would be nice to have for the fishy game.  I just don't know how I would accomplish something like that in HTML5, CSS, or JavaScript. I spent about an hour searching for a solution.  Eventually, I ran into this stackoverflow question asking how to code a magnifier to use the canvas as a source  and that lead me...

I know, I've skipped a day.  Hopefully, I can get three more pull requests real soon.  In fact, I'll try to get one, right now! Alright, I've been looking around GitHub, but I couldn't find anything I could use to quickly get a Pull Request.  There's also a ton of stuff that are using languages and tools I'm not familiar with: Go, Ruby, Node.js, etc.  So, I'm going to try something Jedulz told me about: I can get generate a Pull Request by merging branches of my own projects into the master branch (or other branches really). I think my GitHub.io website could really use some work.  I was more focused on quickly getting something up and running, rather than having something that looked good.  Look at it (as it was at the time of writing): It's horrible!  It's baby's first web page!  If I'm going to have the title Web App Developer at my workplace, then I have  to do better than this! I want to center the index's content when the ...

I got a profile on CodePen !  It's linked to my GitHub account!  I also added a link to it from my GitHub.io page . I also went and downloaded the latest version of  Android Studio .  It's been a long time since I've done any work with Android.  I would like to make a small app, put the code on GitHub, and maybe get it listed on FDroid .  FDroid is an app store like Google Play, but it only distributes Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).  Hopefully, the app I'm thinking about is small enough to not have anything that would make it ineligible for listing.  FDroid does have some strict rules on what can be listed, but I think my app will comply to those rules. I should probably tell you about the app that I want to make on Android: I call it Open Counter.  It's an app that transforms your Android phone into one of those tally counters .  It should be pretty simple: you tap somewhere on the screen, number displayed goes up, and you h...

Hey, everyone!  I joined Hacktoberfest this year!  Which means I have about a month to get four Pull Requests in to be able to get a T-Shirt! I was able to find a fairly simple project for my first Pull Request: Benny wants a Portfolio Website .  I looked at his live site for the project and saw that his picture in the main body was off-center.  With some minor CSS , I was able to center that image in Chrome's developer console.  I then forked the repo on GitHub, cloned my fork using Git Bash/GUI, opened it in Atom (text editor), and added CSS for the profile_image id.  After that, I pushed my changes to my fork and created a new Pull Request to send my code to Benny's project.  Sweet!  One down, three more to go!