Published by Shane O'Sullivan
I am a software engineer and manager from Ireland. I spent 7 years working in Ireland from 2003 – 2010, then ten years in Silicon Valley from 2010 to 2020.
In California I spent about 6.5 years at Facebook Engineering, the last three of which I was an engineering manager in the Ads organisation focusing on customer facing products for creating and managing ads.
At Stripe I built the Developer Productivity organisation, with teams that were responsible for the use of the Ruby language, testing infrastructure, documentation, developer tooling (e.g. IDE integrations) and more.
At Promise, I was Head of Engineering from 2018 – 2020, responsible for building the first few iterations of our products, hiring for all product roles, meeting with clients and investors, and anything else needed to get a tiny startup bootstrapped and successful.
Now I’m back in Ireland, working on my next company. Coming soon (as of early 2023!).
This blog contains my various musings on all things technical/interesting on the interweb and beyond.
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For what it’s worth, Laura has been trolling here for the last few weeks. All of her posts are pointless, and most are insulting and childish. I’ve tried engaging with her, from replying to her comments, to attempting to send her and email. However she has given a fake email address when posting comments, and my reasonable responses have only seemed to encourage her.
Laura, please refrain from posting inane, insulting comments. As I wrote to you in an email, which got bounced back to me, if you have sensible comments about my work on the Pre, I’m glad to hear them. If you have questions about Dojo, I’m glad to answer them. If you have anything of substance at all to say, I’m more than happy to not remove your comments.
However for some reason you seem to have taken a personal dislike to me, which I find curious as we have never met. In the many years this blog has existed, you are the first such user I have encountered. Please, behave reasonably, and we’ll all get along just fine. Posting comments telling me that I’m wasting my time, and that I’m stupid to be working on my personal projects over and over is pointless and only makes you look bad. So stop. Have a civilized conversation.
@ Laura – I see your post just fine.
Anybody else having problem with the app freezing lately?
Laura – you sure you hit the submit button and waited long enough? I think this site uses some fancy ajax submit.
Just be patient and I’m sure your comment will show up 🙂
p.s. Please make a level editor for the game!
@Ryan,
Regarding Laura, I have actually removed some of her comments. See my explanation above.
I’ve already written an online editor for Mazer, I’m looking into making a proper server backend for it so that people can share their levels, vote on them etc. It’s a lot of work 😉
The editor is pretty basic right now, and not really well designed for usability. Take a look at http://chofter.com/mazer/designer.html in a non-IE browser.
Hi.
I’m enjoying the game, but have come upon a level that I just can’t see how you win it. It’s called Photo Finish on the hard level of the Cannonball game.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mike
Hi Mike,
Sorry, there’s a bug in that level. The next version will have the fix, and some more new levels too.
Shane
Good to hear about a fix.
Thought it was a little too difficult. 😉
Thanks,
Mike
I’m playing Mazer and I love it so far…but on Photo Finish phase I can’t pass that…what should I do…it’s very hard
great game! I’m at another level I can’t pass. It’s called Bad Penny. It’s the last set of holes.
@Dpb,
Thanks, glad you like it! You’re right, Bad Penny is a bit hard. I’ve made it a little easier, and you’ll get it in the next release.
nevermind on bad penny, I figured it out.
Won’t download to my palm pre. Phone has neen upfated & have trief numerous times deleting previous tries. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi Archie
Any problems you have with downloading and installing apps are bugs in webOS and your phone. Many people have issues with the App Catalog, and these problems have nothing to do with individual apps.
Palm are looking into a solution, but haven’t found the cause yet
Shane
Can’t seem to finish Sequence. Are you sure it’s possible?
Love the game…Jeff
Yes, it’s definitely possible. In the “Sequence” of worm holes, go
1 to 3
Back to 2, which takes you to 5.
Don’t move on 5 (keep the ball on it), in a few seconds you’ll be taken inside the area with the goal
It’s tricky I know, but one of the puzzles I’m most proud of.
I thought that I’d tried every “sequence”, but I’ll give it a whirl at lunch. Thanks – Jeff
Yep, it worked like a charm. Tricky though. I don’t remember any other levels that require you to stay on the worm hole in order to move on. I don’t think I would have figured that one out without your help. Thanks – Jeff
Thanks for the info on sequence,it was the only 1 i couldnt beat. Been at it all summer. Thanks man
love mazer. But i’m about to give up on the level named “sequence” … What do you have to do to get to the finish spot??
please let me know.
thanks, Todd
See comment 10 above 🙂
Some of the world record times seem impossible to achieve. Especially ones that take approx 9 sec but the record is 1 sec like bad penny. Why is that?
There’s a bug in Mazer which I can’t reproduce myself that leads to incorrect times being reported. I’m looking into it, and hope to have a solution soon
love mazer. I needed your comment above to figure out sequence. Did what you said and finally finished the level…
@Sue,
It’s a tough one alright – feels good to get through it huh? I need to put some more clever puzzle type levels in, as many are more focused on timing and accuracy.
Shane
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