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by gothink 9mo ago
Looks like this is available (since Go 1.21 [0]), so no need to build from source anymore. Just did a quick 'hello world' test to verify and it worked: GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm go build -o main.wasm main.go wasmtime main.
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by gothink 2y ago
Wow, this is very tragic. I was actually just reflecting on the influence Howstuffworks.com had on my life and interests. Quick story: My first introduction to programming was building a Geocities website in HTML (using notepad, of course)
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by gothink 2y ago
I feel like it's worth mentioning icanhazip.com [0] as well, since it's now run by Cloudflare [1]. Until recently switching to a custom CF worker, that's been by go-to for ages. [0]: https://www.icanhazip.com/
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by gothink 2y ago
I had an amazing science teacher in high school who brought a potato cannon he had built into to class to show us. Except he called it a "sock cannon" and had loaded it with a large tube sock that he had rolled up. He explained ho
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by gothink 2y ago
I had left the tab open, so I checked the console and there weren't any exceptions, just the output generated from the game being set up. I refreshed the page to test again, and selecting "small" brought up the same puzzle th
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by gothink 2y ago
This is a really fun and novel word game! Thanks for sharing it. I did find one small bug while playing: if you drag a letter off the grid, it doesn't properly update the squares on the grid for that group. The space where you removed
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by gothink 3y ago
Slime volleyball is immediately what I thought of when I tried this. We played a lot of that (and slime soccer!) on the lab computers at school (Canada). I had no idea Pikachu Volleyball existed, but apparently it predates (1997 [0]) Slime
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by gothink 3y ago
If you do make it configurable, it's still a good idea to make the default `127.0.0.1` for the reasons @ggpsv mentioned. Since the link automatically opens at ` http://localhost:PORT ` anyway, it's an easy security win.
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by gothink 3y ago
I'm not a React dev, so I can't comment on the project itself. Something I noticed on the blog post, though: The image at the top of the page is served uncompressed at a whopping 18.5MB (9751px * 6132px)! Seems a bit extreme for w