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by theluketowers 2y ago
What about Winter CMS?
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Building a Game Engine in PHP Inside Winter CMS – A Wild Journey(wintercms.com)
2 points by theluketowers 2y ago|1 comments
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by theluketowers 2y ago
Most people wouldn't choose PHP for building a game engine, but Jack did! Here's his story of turning a CMS into a multiplayer game engine. Check out the code, try the demo, and see if this crazy idea actually works!
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by theluketowers 3y ago
I'm curious, what made you decide to use final classes and private properties in your Client class? I'd recommend taking a look at https://ocramius.github.io/blog/when-to-declare-classes-fina... if you haven&
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by theluketowers 3y ago
Down for me, intermittent connection issues to the droplets and the dashboard. First time it's ever impacted any of my sites in the 7+ years of hosting with DO.
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by theluketowers 4y ago
You should check out Winter CMS, we're built on top of Laravel and themes are powered by Twig - no heavy PHP code allowed in themes. Instead, complex logic is handled by "Components" that are provided by plugins. It's ex
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by theluketowers 4y ago
While not perfect, they do meet real world needs in ways that are better than current ICE options. A fully electric truck isn't really a viable option in the market they're building for right now (heavy duty working trucks for log
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by theluketowers 4y ago
I've been fascinated watching the progress of Edison Motors ( https://www.edisonmotors.ca/ ), who are making a diesel electric hybrid semi. Their logic and arguments make a lot of sense: the diesel engine gets to run at
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by theluketowers 4y ago
That's not without its drawbacks however, especially when you consider tools like swoole and laravel octane that keep your application in a long running process, so if you use die you actually kill one of the server workers instead of
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by theluketowers 4y ago
I'm curious to know what what "reasonably good" meals you're making for less than $3. That would cover pretty close to nothing in Canada. If such meals exist I'd be happy to learn more about them, feeding a family o
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by theluketowers 4y ago
Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but the closest modern equivalent might be the various VR games / apps that are centred around socializing with other random people (like VR Chat).
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Not a generic tool as such, but Winter CMS has a INI parser / renderer built into the core: https://wintercms.com/docs/services/parser#ini-parser
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Symfony 5.4 just added support for bash completion to PHP CLI commands using the library so we were able to add a very nice and easy to use interface to Winter CMS to take advantage of it: https://wintercms.com/blog/pos
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by theluketowers 5y ago
I've seen this be used for providing a space to explore 3D scans of an abandoned mining town in California: https://poly.cam/cerro-gordo . I think there's definitely some cool applications along those lines of prov
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Sigh, so much for a last minute deploy before recording a progress demo... Darn modern conveniences...
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AirTag Exposes DHL Fraud(youtube.com)
2 points by theluketowers 5y ago|0 comments
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Might depend on where you get your training from but I know for my private pilot's license I was instructed and practiced how to purposely get into spins and recover from them. It's a requirement in Canada: https://tc.c
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Saskatchewan Canada can easily reach -40°C for several weeks during the winter.
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Also originally submitted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26939729
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by theluketowers 5y ago
October 2.0 was based off of the code base as of a year ago, so everything that was added to the project in the past year was removed in 2.0. As far as breaking changes in the 1.0 & 1.1 branches go the links are mostly talking about the
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by theluketowers 5y ago
Hey Tony! Not sure who vanilla-almond is, but I'm the Luke Towers that wrote the post and leads the Winter CMS project :) Definitely should grab a bite again, although unfortunately that restaurant has closed :( Hit me up on the HackRe
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October CMS as you know it is Dead(wintercms.com)
2 points by theluketowers 5y ago|0 comments
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by theluketowers 6y ago
That's because their product sucked, they charged excessive fees, and they were actively hostile to their users.
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by theluketowers 6y ago
Personally I'm not all that into the opera, but this article does raise an interesting point about the affect that the pandemic has on the future viability of a lot of different organizations. Not just businesses, both small and large,
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by theluketowers 6y ago
Have you tried October CMS? It really gets back to the basics and is awesome for rapid application development. Disclaimer, I'm the lead maintainer
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by theluketowers 6y ago
Note that Liquid is quite similar to Twig, which is used in quite a bit more projects than just Shopify.
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by theluketowers 6y ago
Check out Shopaholic for October CMS: https://octobercms.com/plugin/lovata-shopaholic (Disclaimer: I'm the lead maintainer for October CMS but I have no affiliation with Shopaholic).
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by theluketowers 7y ago
I'd recommend taking a look at October CMS ( https://octobercms.com/ ). It looks pretty simple from the intro video but if you take a bit of time getting to know it better you'll be blown away at how quickly and eas
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by theluketowers 7y ago
Just had to go through all my sites in CloudFlare and disable the proxying feature so that my sites could get back online, seems to be an issue with the proxy servers as it's returning a 500 error page from cloudflare/nginx with n
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CloudFlare Proxies Down?(twitter.com)
1 points by theluketowers 7y ago|1 comments

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