SimianLogic2

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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Average ~$3500/mo, but that can go up and down depending on organic traffic, competition (who's running ads), and world events (2-3x'd for a month or two during peak Covid lockdown). It was running ~$1-1.5k for a good chunk o
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Not exactly. These emails all go to users who have signed up for an account. Traffic is weird right now (domain migration in progress), but I was getting ~250-350 user signups a day. I send a monthly newsletter to users who have been recent
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Agreed! I don't know why they don't just keep a master list of every bounced email across every domain (or maybe that's what their paid verification product is and I just haven't looked at it closely enough?) and let me
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Are you a game developer? (brb writing a new engine)
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Haha, cash isn't the limiting factor -- it's the hours of disappearing into the workshop to leave her with childcare duties. I just need to wait for the kids to get a bit older and I can make it a team activity.
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
I tried to carve one of these in styrofoam just to show it to the kids after reading about it a year or so ago, but the material was too soft/porous. It's on my project TODO list if I can ever talk the wife into letting me buy a 3
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
I learned most of what I know about the Three Kingdoms era from playing hundreds (thousands?) of hours of Dynasty Warriors. I later read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the game was pretty close! (Holy shit I had a lot of free time before
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
We usually quote 50-100% increase for agency web dev stuff (mostly marketing sites) and I'd say we've underestimated a few times. For basic html layouts it's not too bad but the minute you move away from something that looks
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
I learn by taking notes. I have notebooks full of notes... but I don't ever actually refer back to them. Just the act of writing things down helps me remember things.
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
I have the Ikea sit-stand desk, but I find it hard to stand during deep focus work. I rotate between a tall cushy stool and standing when the desk is up. When the desk is down I rotate between a standard office chair I got when a former com
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
My site's not huge and mobile ads were only ~$150/mo. I might revisit it later, but for now I'm willing to take the path of least resistance.
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
A) This level of vitriol directed at internet strangers is not super healthy. I hope you find something that helps you chill out a bit. B) I didn't say they did, but not every product needs to be concerned with the rest of the world. W
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
The desktop performance targets are easy to hit, but mobile tests for Lighthouse are rough: "Simulated Fast 3G" network throttling and a 4x CPU slowdown. I don't know anyone in the US who is still on 3G and modern CPUs are no
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
I've been doing a lot of this work over the last month and LCP has been the hardest metric to move by far. I ended up dropping AdSense on mobile entirely from my site, which was ironically the biggest factor in performance degradation
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Update: I played a run on Slay the Spire with the new controls and I actually prefer it to the paired XBox controller. I think this is a pretty great update for any turn-based game (todo: check out Monster Train and Nowhere Prophet).
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
The only good experience I've had with it so far is Slay the Spire (mysteriously missing on Android). I play it full-screen with a gap in the middle -- I wish there was an OS or app-level setting to let me choose whether I want the scr
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Seconded. Roku started out as the "we partner with everyone" streaming device and all this "we're a platform now" bullshit is such a consumer betrayal. I think I've bought 4 or 5 over the years since we cut cab
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Because there's nothing I love more than fiddling with obtuse settings menus just to have to do it again in couple of hours. This would maybe be acceptable if there was a charm/quick toggle like they do with Do Not Disturb, but I&
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by SimianLogic2 5y ago
Seconded. I looked into this at the start of the Pandemic -- there are a few crap ones on Amazon. I couldn't get them to work with my phone. I'd love to just have a set of web bookmarks and be able to load those or send it a URL f
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I think I'm following your build. It seems like Kratky requires a lot more space up-front than an aeroponic system that you refill over time, but it's good to know that I can get even lazier if I clean out some space in the garage
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
https://twitter.com/SimianLogic/status/1361768051276992514 Kind of free? There was nothing in that space before.
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I'm just using a 9-plant Aerogarden Bounty right now (think it was ~$175 on Black Friday). My wife says I can upgrade to an indoor Tower Garden or Lettucegrow if I do 3-4 cycles on this thing without getting bored. I also built six 4ft
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
This article is more about indoor farming than vertical farming (is it even vertical if there's only one row?). I grow lettuce indoors. It serves as a nice houseplant and fresh source of salad greens for lunch. It's fairly new, so
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I have deep sympathy for this, after having done a ton of work with the SWF format and the (even more poorly documented) AEPX format.
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I would argue that html5 game toolchains today are FAR more niche than Flash was in its prime--I'm not even sure I'd know how to write that job description. Keep in mind that Flash wasn't just solo indie devs--I used it perso
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I said much the same in another comment -- my kids (5 & 8) play a bunch of browser games, but eventually they'll have their own phones and steam accounts (and credit cards) and stop playing free stuff in the browser.
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
I think the point you're missing is that Flash supported an entire ecosystem. Because it was easy to distribute the files (and steal them from other portals), there were tons of game portals out there competing for traffic. This compet
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
Actually Flash was fantastic (for games). AS3 is one of my favorite programming languages I've ever worked with, but Flash wasn't just a programming language. The display tree (put simply: game engine) was baked into the runtime,
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
The author seems to enjoy his structure, but organizing my day into 30-minute chunks would drive me insane. I have a hard time getting anything done if I have a meeting on my calendar that I know is going to stop me in 2 hours.
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by SimianLogic2 6y ago
At $600-$800 I think I'd give it a go--basically an iPad Mini (a form factor which I love) that folds up when not in use. I'm surprised they didn't show more gaming applications. I think you could use half the screen as a con

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