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by dansingerman 4y ago
You’re right. I wasn’t aware of word-in-one and it’s a similar idea. The closest I’ve seen to my game in fact. ( when I had the idea for it I wondered if anyone else had had the same idea. I’ve not seen another game doing exactly the same y
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by dansingerman 4y ago
I’ve made it so it only shows the share button if the browser supports native sharing (navigator.share) - wordle just copies it to the clipboard on other browsers, which I found a little naff so that I didn’t really bother to do that. Only
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by dansingerman 4y ago
There seems a weird caching issue that I think I’ve fixed. Can you try again?
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Thanks - it is behind cloudflare, and there does seem to be the odd caching issue where there is a mismatch between the files. I'll look further into it.
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Thanks for the kind comment. The dark mode is on the dev plan, I just didn’t have it ready for launch.
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Yes - it probably is a bit harder than Wordle. I think this is for people who like Wordle, but find it a bit too easy.
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Thank you!
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Thanks - I will check that out
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by dansingerman 4y ago
Ever since I became aware of Wordle (and its success) I’ve wanted to make my own daily word game. This is unashamedly inspired by Wordle, but unlike most Wordle derivatives it’s fundamentally a different game with a different game mechanism
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Show HN: WordAll – another daily word game (but it's not a Wordle clone)(wordall.xyz)
12 points by dansingerman 4y ago|18 comments
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Entire video game embedded in video tweet(twitter.com)
1 points by dansingerman 6y ago|0 comments
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by dansingerman 6y ago
Totally agreed; in general the advice a VC will give you will be what they consider you need to do for them to be interested in investing in you. This is not the same as ‘good’ advice, and will often be diametrically opposed to it.
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by dansingerman 7y ago
I'm guessing this only affected Android devices? But did those devices have the "Allow apps from unknown sources" option checked? I feel like there's some pretty pertinent technical details missing from the story. (Or am
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by dansingerman 7y ago
This is a great comment. Imagine the investment that would suddenly start in accessibility if Google publicly announced it was an important part of search engine rankings.
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by dansingerman 7y ago
Goodhart's Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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The future of appapp.io(blog.appapp.io)
2 points by dansingerman 8y ago|0 comments
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by dansingerman 8y ago
TLDR: You don't need to manage state in the client now; manage state in the server by making more API requests. And GraphQL makes that a bit easier. Oh and you still need to manage state in the client.
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by dansingerman 8y ago
> That one definitely sounds true to me, the complexity of modern software definitely makes it harder to be competitive with big shops. I disagree. If you want to make a competitive product to the products made by big shops, then that is
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by dansingerman 8y ago
I've used slim too. I have the same opinion of it as Haml.
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by dansingerman 8y ago
Agreed! If I need to debug it in chrome inspector (or similar) I don't like to have to think in terms of the abstraction I'm using to get the result I want. Web development is complex enough (server side, js, css) without adding a
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by dansingerman 8y ago
I know I'm very likely to be in a minority here, but I hate both Haml and Markdown. I much prefer HTML and erb.
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by dansingerman 9y ago
You say 'only millions records'. Even if you had 2^36 records (that's over 68 billion) the chances of a collision should be 0.0000000000000004 That really is vanishingly small. So, rationally, I'd guess it is more likely
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by dansingerman 9y ago
That is likely due to a fault in the UUID generator, rather than the concept of using UUIDs. http://www.h2database.com/html/advanced.html#uuid
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by dansingerman 9y ago
Do you worry about the irrational fear that one day all the oxygen molecules in the room will gather in an upper corner, and you'll suffocate?
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by dansingerman 9y ago
This is so useful I've knocked up a quick gem to wrap the range service (i.e. it only transmits the first 5 chars of the SHA1 hash) https://github.com/dansingerman/pwned_passwords_v2 The code is left deliberately
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by dansingerman 9y ago
"Single Page Apps increase the amount of client side logic and user input processing. This makes them more likely to be vulnerable to DOM-based XSS, which, as previously mentioned, is very difficult for website owners to detect."
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by dansingerman 9y ago
The rate limiting was done by the application server, but was completely separate from the varnish layer. (I think it was something fairly naive to do with memcached, but that's not terribly important). What was important was that the
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by dansingerman 9y ago
The code examples are written in ruby and lua - I take it that in your live environment you use the lua script compiled into nginx? Does this mean every rate limited request is hitting redis? I had this problem years ago, and I used varnish
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by dansingerman 10y ago
I know the song well, but it's the first time I've really read the lyrics and ... wow... (running my own business with 3 small children, one a son)... listening to it on Spotify now.
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by dansingerman 10y ago
Exactly. It's not like performance is or is not important. It's about the trade-off given the detail and the context.

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