Robert Flack

Software Developer at #Google on #Chromium. Opinions are my own.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics Thanks!

There is now a setting. Making some nice activation animation will take a little longer 🕒

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics I was alternately thinking maybe making it so you have to hold down on it for a second with some animation to indicate that, but having a setting to completely turn it off / hide it (for people who don't want it at all) seems good too.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics Hints are now optional (you click a button to reveal it), and if revealed / used put you in a different bucket on the daily scores list.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics That sounds like a great compromise! No hints in hard mode, done!

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

Crosswordle français est de retour!
French crosswordle is back!

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics My thinking was to have occasional hints for more obscure puzzle themes but I’ve probably overdone it since it’s a new feature I wanted to test. I definitely don’t want to make it too easy. I’ll reconsider which puzzles it’s on and watch the scores.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Stuffedparatha @RASburyCeramics I always thought the main advantage of Crosswordle was that it forces you to come up with a new starter every day and when you found the answer you could feel pretty confident about it unlike wordle where you could have 4 green but still 6+ possible arbitrary words.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@Anniejay105810 Thanks so much! Looks like I didn't quite catch all the bugs to making the crossing letter count as two guesses. Should be fixed for tomorrow.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@RASburyCeramics @Stuffedparatha Hey, thanks for letting me know! I had an error in the system config. It's up and running again but will be missing some stats for the period it wasn't working.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@TheJenHarris There are only 2 more. It was an experiment with the idea that once the pattern was established it could be interesting to try to think of the matching word for the crossing letter.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@stubbornella Is it a carousel? I'm not sure I see it... It is interesting though. The two display modes while resizing makes me think of tab overflow https://t.co/NXSKSZogVU (of course with smooth animations between the states!)

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@canonfodder_co It was feature presentation. I've generally tried to avoid answers being too long as I think they're much harder to guess at but coming up with fresh meaningful daily puzzles is a bit of a challenge sometimes.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

If you've tried https://t.co/zxrIHFIajp before and wished it were a bit easier, I added a new setting for word specific yellow / orange clues which should help. Happy puzzle solving!

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@jillreedman Yes, it is a bug! https://t.co/KQOzvIIjIe. I just pushed out a quick fix. You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. Sorry for the inconvenience :-)

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

There was a bug with today's crosswordle, I can't explain it without giving something away but you may need to force your browser to reload before it will accept the answer. Thanks to everyone who reported it early so I could fix the code quickly.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@jess_frances_b I just pushed out a fix for the issue (https://t.co/KQOzvIIjIe). You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. My apologies for the inconvenience :-)

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@TheJenHarris Yeah my script for adding puzzles unfortunately didn't pick up on the issue that I didn't have the 12 letter word dictionary (https://t.co/KQOzvIIjIe). I just pushed a fix, you may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@DaveAnkers Thanks for letting me know! I just pushed out a fix for the issue (https://t.co/KQOzvIIjIe). You may need to force reload in order to not pick up the cached version. My apologies for the inconvenience :-)

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@jaffathecake @bramus @DasSurma @domenic One problem with precomputing it is that with scroll driven animations the needed time values aren't known in advance.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@jaffathecake @bramus @DasSurma @domenic If we created a worklet scope, you could run the timing function in a new worklet off the main thread, e.g.
CSS.timingWorklet.addModule('custom-timing-functions.js');

That has non-trivial overhead though. The browser could just pre-evaluate N times in advance on main.

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@jaffathecake @Wridgeu The reminder worked! 😁

[Robert Flack @flackrw]

@RickByers @adamwathan @stubbornella Ideally though we'd test on the mobile configuration. Chrome android is now tested on https://t.co/NSqmPboQsJ, I'm really looking forward to adding wpt tests for top control related things like the dynamic viewport units https://t.co/e48gqCqJiM