"A year and a half ago, I spent a week making an HTML5 game called Dave Likes Pizza, despite knowing next to nothing about web development. Not surprisingly, the final product was an abomination of web practices. My coup de grâce was a file of build instructions containing such gems as “use a JavaScript minifier on the contents of the src/ directory” and “copy the following file structure to the remote host.” Even now these lines make me shudder.

Luckily, in the 18 months that followed the completion of Dave Likes Pizza, I’ve been doing nothing but web development and have adopted much better development practices. So I thought it was high time we paid Dave a return visit."

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