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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

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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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

How to Launch VS Code Projects via macOS Spotlight

I recently traded my Linux setup for a MacBook Pro, but I wasn't willing to give up my custom project launchers. With a little help from Claude, I've ported my original Bash script to macOS so I can open any project instantly using Cmd + Space.

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25 Mar 2026 Read

Upgrading from Fedora 41 to Fedora 42

If someone were to ask me which Linux distro has provided the best desktop experience, I wouldn't hesitate to answer: Fedora Workstation 41. So of course I upgraded to Fedora 42.

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16 Apr 2025 Read

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Philip Newborough 1d ago

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 6d ago

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 7d ago

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.

Philip Newborough 24 Mar 2026

I've been watching a good amount of Hey Duggee lately. The Frog Song is my favourite. Some people say the Stick Song is better, it is not.

Philip Newborough 23 Mar 2026

Playing around with the ScreenshotOne API service. I've been using Puppeteer to grab webpage screenshots, but the ScreenshotOne service feels quicker and more reliable. It's also a lot simpler to implement and maintain.

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