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Philip Newborough

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Web developer and tech enthusiast. When I'm not coding, I can be found performing Grumpa duties, reading Warhammer 40,000 fiction, listening to tech podcasts or riding my bike.

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PWA · Browser Game

Flatspace Commander

A 1-bit, vertical-scrolling space trader and combat simulator for the browser - inspired by the Acornsoft/C64 classic Elite. Built as a Progressive Web App with pure vanilla JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas, and CSS3.

Features

Flight - Scroll between star systems, dodge asteroids, mine minerals, survive combat encounters.
Combat - 1-bit wireframe dogfights against pirates, traders, and Thargoid aliens. Pulse, Beam & Military lasers, shields, and cargo pod drops.
Trade - 17 Elite-style commodities with prices driven by tech level, government, and economy. Buy low, sell high.
Equipment - Upgrade your Cobra with mining lasers, shield generators, docking computers, galactic hyperdrive, and more.
Galaxy Map - 256 systems procedurally generated via a seeded LCG - identical on every device, no server required.

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PWA · Browser Game

Emoji Slots RPG

Step into a glowing neon arcade, circa 1988. Emoji Slots is a browser-based fruit machine with full UK pub-style mechanics: spin three emoji reels, hold wheels between spins, nudge them up or down into line, and gamble your winnings through bonus rounds - Higher/Lower, Pick a Box, and Spin the Wheel. Random arcade encounters throw RPG-style events into the mix. Match cherries, unicorns, or the elusive 💯 to fill your pockets. Hit a triple 💩 and watch your coins vanish. Hit 💀💀💀 and it's game over. Built with a synthwave CRT aesthetic, arcade sound effects, and background music.

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PWA · Browser Tool

Favicon & PWA Icon Generator

A free, browser-based tool that generates every icon size your website or Progressive Web App needs - no server uploads, no account required. All processing happens entirely in the browser using the Canvas API.

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Recent Public Activity

corenominal@github — git log --oneline (8 events)

PHOSPHOR: an entropy-based password generator

I teamed up with Gemini and Claude to build a retro-futuristic password generator. It's a PWA that harvests hardware entropy from your movements, runs them through a SHA-256 math blender, and looks great doing it.

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08 Apr 2026 Read

PWA: Favicon & PWA Icon Generator

I've taken my Favicon Generator entirely client-side. By leveraging the Canvas API, the new version handles all image processing right in your browser - no server required. With full offline support and new features like squircle shaping and individual icon overrides, it's a faster, more flexible way to manage your project assets.

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07 Apr 2026 Read

Favicon & Manifest Generator

Scratching a dev itch, I rebuilt my Favicon & Manifest generator. Upload one image to get all your PWA assets and a customisable manifest.json instantly.

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26 Mar 2026 Read

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Philip Newborough 2d ago

Trip out to RSPB Bempton Cliffs for a spot of bird watching. Impressive views and the volunteer staff were friendly and knowledgeable. Bit windy.

Philip Newborough 5d ago

COMMANDER'S LOG — SECURITY INSPECTION — CLEARED
SD 3200.098

Station Authority boarded at LAVE and conducted a full search of the cargo hold. Inspection team found nothing of interest. All 1t of flagged cargo remained undetected.

Free to proceed. No fine issued. Credits unaffected.

https://flatspace-commander.philipnewborough.co.uk

Philip Newborough 02 Apr 2026

Looking at Mythic Beasts Raspberry Pi hosting options. Nice to see an honest sales pitch: "This is a service aimed at hobbyists, and shouldn't be used for nuclear power station command and control systems." I'm definitely a hobbyist and I'm keen to give it a try. I'm thinking I might rent one for a bit and see how it performs.

Philip Newborough 28 Mar 2026

Testing a HTML canvas app on my Pixel 9 and Becky's iPhone 17. The iPhone feels much faster, probably because it is. I love my Pixel, but I'm feeling a little envious. It'll pass, maybe.

Philip Newborough 27 Mar 2026

Working on a PWA and trying to figure out why the PWA's cache was not updating. Wrote a bunch of tools to debug it. The tools insisted that it was updating. Turns out the Service Worker was successfully fetching... cached files from the server. Caching the cache. My head hurts.

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