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Stephen Mitchell

Stephen Mitchell

Full-stack web developer and Django specialist based near Philadelphia, PA; creator of the htmx 4 Game Boy game, the Red Redis UI for Mac, and maintainer of django-mail-panel.

Aug 12, 2026

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59:37
Yeah
59:37
... what we ended up do- so th- this was actually one of the, the harder things we had to try to figure out, and we were almost halfway through development, and we still had no idea how we were going to do this.
59:50
Uh, so what I ended up doing was just looking at the Game Boy itself and, uh, s- okay, s- saying, "Okay, w- what, what is our screen dimensions? How can we display JavaScript?" So again, the J- J- the JavaScript code doesn't have to do anything.
60:07
We just need to display it.
60:08
That was the requirement.
60:10
So the, the Game Boy itself, again, we, we're talking about tiles, eight by eight tiles.
60:16
Uh, it, it can dis- the Game Boy can display 20 tiles across, 18 tiles down.

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65:23
So.

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