Taylor Monthly - February 2026
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At a Glance
A Wild Email Appears
I received an email about Taylor! Someone noticed a bug on the playground and reported it. This small act by them made me feel like I’m actually making a difference with this project.
The thing that makes me chuckle about this bug report is that they’re focussing
on the missing y call on the Vector2 but mention nothing about the clearly
broken background drawing.
I’m very thankful for this report though, I have fixed both of these issues but I’m still not sure how to tackle keeping regressions like this from happening automatically.
Jumpy Alien
I got Jumpy Alien updated for Taylor v0.4.1. This was mostly
the change around Texture2D#draw no longer defaulting the origin to the
centre of the image and instead puts it back at Vector2[0, 0] to make it work
like nearly every other #draw function.
I did some gameplay improvements too.
- The pipes now spawn at random heights
- Player gravity tweaked
- Pipe movement speed tweaked
- Exit button now works
The main menu is shown before going into play the game. Once playing the player gets a score of three before crashing into a pipe and seeing the end screen showing their high score of 3.
Community Site
Now that I got warden working with Hanami I’ve decided to go back to my Rails implementation of the community site. While I’ve enjoyed Hanami I’m looking to have a high velocity with this so sticking with tooling I know is going to be better. I will absolutely revisit Hanami later as I liked a lot of the decisions they’ve made and found it a great experience.
Going back to an old codebase always means I get to do one of my favourite things, upgrading libraries! I’m not even kidding, I get a lot of pleasure out of bumping gems and doing Rails upgrades. So now it’s running on Rails 8.1.
I decided to take it a step further though and rewrite the entirety of the erb templates I was using into Phlex. I find using Phlex a much nicer experience than writing erb templates.