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by v21 2y ago
Yep, this is what I use as well. Works well! (In my case, I have it just running as a CDN in front of Wasabi, which actually stores the images - likely even cheaper if most of the images aren't viewed)
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by v21 2y ago
> (I don't know what to do if another change interrupts the first but it's a rare case and can probably be handled imperfectly.) This kind of lerp trick, while imperfect, is useful in exactly these sort of situations. It allows
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by v21 3y ago
Hi! Thank you. The exported games run as ordinary HTML pages, so hopefully they're hitting a minimum bar for this kind of accessibility already (tab will cycle through links, enter will work to select it). The actual output format is o
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by v21 3y ago
hello, creator here, just seeing this thread now. and yes, to be honest i agree with everything you're saying here. it's needed attention for a good while, i've just been busy with getting the app finished & trying to avo
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by v21 3y ago
As the creator of Downpour, I have to say: yes! both of these tools are great. I'd also shout out Bitsy and Twine as two phenomenal simple game making tools.
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by v21 3y ago
Hello, the creator here. It's a tricky subject, I agree - especially because as a trans person who likes lots of messy transgressive art, I don't want to shut down that kind of self-expression from the platform. But also it's
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by v21 3y ago
Either you make an account and upload your game, getting a downpour.games link you can share. Or you can export the game as a self contained webpage to host elsewhere (it's a zip with an index.html, a JSON file & the required image
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by v21 3y ago
Creator here - sorry about this! I've found a few people are running into this, and I'm not sure what the cause is - going to be looking into adding password auth as a workaround, but that will obviously take a hot second.
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by v21 3y ago
> Typically, the selection of a programming language is predetermined in brownfield projects, leaving little room for choosing the "ideal" programming language for migration unless it is absolutely necessary (go can be a suitab
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by v21 4y ago
There was that whole thing where a court said a lawyer has to check all of his tweets, Musk shrugged it off, and the court did nothing about it.
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by v21 4y ago
It's worth noting that "single-writer" refers to a single machine, not a single process. Multiple programs can write to the same SQLite DB at once (although contention can be a problem, etc etc). So, if that admin tool was ru
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Pretty Visualisation of Common Divisors(v21.io)
2 points by v21 6y ago|0 comments
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by v21 6y ago
fwiw, this post was inspired by a twitter thread i created yesterday ( https://twitter.com/v21/status/1301451641699340288 ), where i collected examples of people getting annoyed that this term doesn't exist...
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by v21 7y ago
the article we're discussing this under is explicitly about advocating for such smaller spaces, and arguing against having to make everything scale to cover the entire world. not a public discourse, a private one.
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Show HN: Cheap Bots, Done Quick! - a free twitterbot platform(cheapbotsdonequick.com)
5 points by v21 11y ago|0 comments
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by v21 12y ago
Well, they're building a browser engine...
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by v21 13y ago
At the risk of sneering at science for it's own sake: why is that the most important question? What extent is programming an innate skill doesn't seem to have many obvious utilities, but finding effective methods to address gender
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The Advent of Web3D(alexstjohn.com)
4 points by v21 13y ago|0 comments
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Come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep(programmingisterrible.com)
344 points by v21 13y ago|370 comments
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by v21 13y ago
I did read it, and I also read Goldacre's rebuttal, which was more persuasive.
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by v21 14y ago
And sometimes, if they like you, they pay out early.
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Byrdr(byrdr.com)
1 points by v21 14y ago|0 comments
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by v21 14y ago
And when the new update comes out, all the user reviews get wiped/obsoleted.
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Tools for making games for normal people(nottheinternet.com)
2 points by v21 14y ago|0 comments
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by v21 14y ago
You can lose robust things as easily as fragile things. Which is a facile point, but still, this all just stuff.
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by v21 14y ago
Although increasingly you have to sign your apps (and thus be a registered Apple developer), or else teach end users to disable Gatekeeper.
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by v21 14y ago
It's not really Javascript though, it's just C# that looks like Javascript and is called Javascript.
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by v21 14y ago
Poor Firefox. They do the right thing, and end up with a #1 Most Read on BBC News telling people that "Security fear sees Firefox pulled"
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by v21 14y ago
Ta, fixed.
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Apple makes around 15% of its App Store money from developers(nottheinternet.com)
46 points by v21 14y ago|33 comments

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