Side projects of side projects are taking over!

This month I released a Yahtzee game scorer and a Yatzy game scorer, both a simple Apps which use the Costs to Expect API, they are a little bit of fun and allowed me to test some ideas.

As per a lot of the Apps in the Costs to Expect service, the game scorers are Open Source, you are free to play around with them.

I have shipped lots of updates in the last few weeks and learned a lot about the new user experience, with something as simple as the scorers it is very easy to focus on the initial experience for new users.

The lessons I have learned are already starting to improve Budget, the next App in the Costs to Expect service.

Budget is not a simple App like Yahtzee, it is going to be quite involved, no ETA yet but I would like to have a Beta out well before the end of the year, it very much depends on how much time I have outside of freelance work and contracts.

Dart SASS in WSL2

My Laravel project setup for Windows, Docker, WSL2 & PHPStorm

This is a minor update to an earlier post; the setup is simpler than previously described and the result is the same, Dart SASS in WSL2

You will need to download the latest release of dart sass from the official repo.

  1. Download and extract the dart-sass release you are going to use, at the time of this post I opted for https://github.com/sass/dart-sass/releases/download/1.26.10/dart-sass-1.26.10-windows-x64.zip
  2. Open your .bashrc file in WSL – vi ~/.bashrc
  3. Add export PATH="/path/to/dart-sass:$PATH" to the end of the file, in my case export PATH="/mnt/c/Users/USERNAME/Documents/GitHub/dart-sass:$PATH"

To test everything is working, open WSL and enter sass --version; you should see the version number.

Dart SASS is one the tools I install via WS. It is now longer part of y typically Laravel project setup, these days I have mostly switched to Tailwind for new projects.