Benjamin_Dobell

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by Benjamin_Dobell 5d ago
Not based on an official Blockly implementation. But you can add keyboard navigation to Blockly(-like) scripting reasonably easily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITWSL5lTLig The video above shows keyboard, but the main mo
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by Benjamin_Dobell 1mo ago
This is extremely interesting to me. I also have an 8 year old daughter who inspired me to build tooling for kids to create their own games. However, what I've come up with is quite different than this. https://breaka.club&#
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by Benjamin_Dobell 1mo ago
This looks really nice. Given the target age I imagine there's not a heap of text, so you could probably get away with LLM translations. Be sure to share it again in the coming months if you add English :)
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by Benjamin_Dobell 1mo ago
This is precisely why I'm building Breaka Club: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids I also attempted to make a game with my eldest daughter initially. Unsurprisingly, she didn't want to
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2mo ago
Been dealing with this a bit at Breaka Club. We teach kids to code with a modded version of Overcooked 2!. We stream OC2[1] with our mod preinstalled over WebRTC. This ensures that kids/schools don't have to try and install the mo
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2mo ago
They are. There's a LOT of web games on itch.io. It's just the typical challenge with over saturated markets: publicity.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
It's a really tricky one, but I think it's the right call for Godot, but probably not for other projects. I'm the current maintainer of GodotJS (TypeScript bindings for Godot). LLMs can generate genuinely useful solutions for
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
Still plugging away at Breaka Club, where kids take photos of their hand drawn art and build games using it. Starts out as no-code, photograph an AprilTag and it imbues the image with functionality. https://breaka.club/blog&
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
It's really not. If I'm at the point of contributing a PR to a dependency, I've already identified the root cause in detail. There's no way a change log should be going into that level of detail, or else you're just
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
How... how is this not obviously the absolute very most useful information? When I encounter a bug in a dependency of mine. Before I worry about submitting a PR, the very first thing I do is grab my version number and check the commit logs
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
My apologies, I missed this on first read due to the indentation style. That said, I don't agree on the commentary. Why on Earth are people not writing commit messages for their reverts? They should have semantic commit messages just t
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3mo ago
Odd. The main reason to use this style of commit message is for CI/CD automation. EDIT: I didn't see this covered in the article on my first pass. It is covered though. My apologies. The type of the commit informs the automated
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Cal.com is going closed source(cal.com)
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
I'll definitely give you Rosetta, and even more so Rosetta 2. Spotlight too, at least in principle, but it has had its fair share of dodgy behavior over the years. I'm not really sure about the others. There's certainly alway
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Live rankings currently have Mac OS X first... h... how? Apple make so so much wonderful hardware! They always have. Their software on the other hand is near universally awful. I love my Macbook, but my gosh, I do not love whatever the la
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
I must admit, this is one area I've found LLMs to be surprisingly strong. They're REALLY good at reverse engineering obscure platforms, languages, game engines; and quickly throwing together super hacky tooling. I was able to reve
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Thanks, Eric; for this, and for my start as a software engineer — my first commercial development work was consulting as an 18 year old building games with C4. I'm really glad Slug was able to find commercial success for you in the way
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Thanks! Breaka Club is still very early days. Current focus is in person, but the plan is to offer an online club experience also. I'm not quite sure what that will look like just yet. Ideally yes, I'd love to make this available
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
TC39 decorators emit just landed in tsgo about 24 hours ago. Hopefully they're available in Vite 8 soon. I'm using them in GodotJS https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS/commit/a4bafef9f14c103b09...
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Although this is a facetious take, instructing a robot to follow recipes is a fantastic introduction to coding. I added a visual scripting layer to Overcooked so kids can program robots to make all sorts of dishes (Sushi, Pasta, Cakes etc.)
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Thanks. Just tuned my daughter's guitar. Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Continuing to make fantastic progress on Breaka Club, where we teach kids to code, be creative and make games: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids The recent Netflix Games edition of Overcooked wi
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by Benjamin_Dobell 6mo ago
Somewhat coincidentally, MoonSharp (the scripting engine Moongate based their Lua runtime on) is alive and kicking again. There hasn't been a release in ~10 years, but I published a beta for v3.0.0 a few days ago. https://gi
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by Benjamin_Dobell 8mo ago
I'm building a modern platform for kids to hand draw their own games: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids Currently supports RPG mechanics, with digital card game support coming soon. Plan is
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by Benjamin_Dobell 9mo ago
* Continuing development on Breaka Club ( https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids ) — Turning kids from consumers into creators. * GodotJS — https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS — Ty
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by Benjamin_Dobell 10mo ago
I'm far from an expert in this area. I've also tried Bria RMBG 1.4, Bria RMBG 2.0, older BiRefNet versions, and I think another I forgot the name of. The fact I'm removing backgrounds that are predominantly white (a sheet of
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by Benjamin_Dobell 10mo ago
For background removal (at least my niche use case of background removal of kids drawings — https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids ) I think birefnet v2 is still working slightly better. SAM3 seems to
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by Benjamin_Dobell 10mo ago
Not really. I've written a bunch of code to try maintain the limited support for it that already exists in GodotJS, but I've never really tried it. Main reason I haven't is I'm dependent on Web Worker(-like) APIs in Godo
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by Benjamin_Dobell 10mo ago
I've recently become the maintainer of https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS (TypeScript bindings + JS runtime for Godot). GodotJS supports numerous runtimes, but V8 is the most well supported. Unfortunately, I have
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by Benjamin_Dobell 10mo ago
Look. This isn't on the front page of HN anymore. So I'm mostly writing this to you. You've work to do on your communication. This style of communication probably works just fine with teenagers, but it's not going to hol

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