Vaughn Dickson
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Writing about JavaScript

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2 posts

2026

  1. A whole replay in a URL: how Flappycar's ghost links work without a backend server

    How Flappycar sends a friend your entire run as a ghost to race, with no backend server: a fixed physics step, a seeded course, and every tap packed into a couple of hundred bytes of URL.

    6 min readAICodeJavaScriptGame development

2016

  1. How to communicate between your Chrome extension and your SPA web app

    Two-way messaging between a Chrome extension and a single-page app using Chrome's external messaging API, with the background script, manifest and web app code.

    1 min readJavaScript