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Vekz

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Punk rocker turned software engineer, YC S11 founder.

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www.crowdsupply.com 11mo ago

A fast, low-latency, open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

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blog.littlepolygon.com 2y ago

Tech Breakdown: Third Person Cameras in Games

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kevzettler.com 3y ago

Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine

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radcade.com 3y ago

A game engine agnostic third person camera math implementation

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radcade.com 3y ago

Unity Multiplayer Netcode for GameObjects Review

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radcade.com 3y ago

Content spoiler sensitivity for indie game devs

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radcade.com 3y ago

Consider player freedom in game design

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www.radcade.com 5y ago

Build a 2d game in one day using the C# MonoGame framework

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Who is making money with HTML5 Games?

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www.radcade.com 5y ago

The Epic Botch of Diablo 3

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www.radcade.com 5y ago

Building a Pseudo-3D Racing Game for the 2020 JS13k Game Jam

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www.radcade.com 5y ago

How to add network multiplayer to your indie game

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twinbeard.com 5y ago

How I Modernized My Flash Game Frog Fractions

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labnotes.panderalabs.com 8y ago

Migrating from Webpack to Parcel with benchmark comparison

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www.citusdata.com 9y ago

Scaling out complex transactions in multi-tenant apps on Postgres

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Reccomendation, Hand Written Notes to Text File, Smart-Pen

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kevzettler.com 11y ago

Rapid Local Development with Vagrant, Docker and Node.js

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Is this an employee confidentiality breach?

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littleblondemeathead.com 12y ago

“Experts” Weigh in: Carbs, Calories, Cardio And Everything In Between

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www.rockpapershotgun.com 13y ago

The Power Of Silence: Why The SimCity Story Went Away

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Very sad. I had met Mikeal a few times in the nearly Node community hackathons and meetups. He had been in my orbit of Node.js and Oakland communities for decades but we were never close. Always felt like ships in the night. I had been following his cancer diaries hoping for the best. There truly was a magic to that early Node.js hacker house days and Mikeal was a huge driving force for that.

I was really impressed with the online presentation of EmacsConf 2024. Everything captured and published in org-mode: Transcripts, Comments, QA, Video links. Was really nice to peruse.

Deeply nested inline anonymous function callbacks are the anti pattern. Decoupled explicit named functions passed as callbacks are a significantly better developer experience and provide clearer stack traces. I never understood why this conversation didn't take the lexicon and instead the imo inferior `async` pattern got pushed hard.

Chiptune.app 3 years ago

very cool I like the UI. Wish it had the catalog from keygenjukebox do net though.

Where did the motivation come from?

I host a bay area indie gamedev coworking group. The coworking group's regular recurring meetup interval kept me in a peer pressure and positive feedback loop. I also felt the need in the market had not been addressed until this new wave of engines started appearing.

I’m impressed that you can remember the obstacles you overcame several years ago.

I kept a daily journal in org-mode and separate dev log file. Can search through this and my commit history for lots of info.

Thanks for reading and sharing your work!

I host an indie gamedev coworking group in the bay area and on discord that you might find interesting. Will DM you.

How did this one go? I ended up literally doing a `ln` for shared frontend/backend files.

Very easy with module imports. Same scene graph and entity component system shared between client and server.

This is what I have, it def could be improved:

  (defun capture-comment-line (&optional line)
    (let ((c
          (save-excursion
            (save-window-excursion
              (switch-to-buffer (plist-get org-capture-plist :original-buffer))
            comment-start)
            )))
      (while (string-prefix-p c line)
        (setq line (string-remove-prefix c line)))
      (comment-string-strip line t t)
      ))

  (setq org-capture-templates
        '(("C" "TODO code comment" entry (file+headline "~/org/brain/code.org" "Tasks")
          "\* %(capture-comment-line \"%i\")\n  %a"
          )))

One example of synergy I have is that of TODO code comments and org-mode agenda scheduling. For context, some programmers leave //TODO comments through their projects. org-mode uses a notation syntax of *TODO to capture and schedule an agenda item for later completion. These agenda items can be scheduled on a calendar and the agenda can be queried for day, week, month TODOS.

Org mode has custom templates for capturing org agenda items. I've made a "TODO code comment" capture template that I can execute on TODO comments. Once executed the template creates org-mode entries which are added to the calendar and link to the comments file and line number.

Anyone have resources on how to actually perform the migration of many repos to monorepo? Currently facing the same issue and want to make the consolidation move but now sure on how to merge the git history. This article and the previous one it links to are missing all the implementation details.

The mental model of eink "has very poor refresh rates" is outdated. There are Eink displays on the market by Dasung and Onyx which easily do 40FPS refresh. The Modos project is using the same display modules and dithering algorithm as these monitors.

All you need is Emacs and you got a whole operating system designed for reading and editing text in a limited environment.

You need a legacy project. Something that you can work towards as "your life's work" and leave it behind. The easiest route here is to have a child. If thats not a possibility you need something grander and philanthropic. Start a non profit org that helps people. Become a mentor and pass your knowledge on to some mentees.

This is an optimistic invention driven growth curve hypothesis. There is an alternative pessimistic version. Where challenges like climate change, growing infertility rates, anti biotic resistant bacteria, require reactionary invention.

Substack 7 years ago

Same feelings here. This implies that.

1. The founders of the corporation were not aware of the established personal brand James Halliday had built under the handle, or didn't preform a google search to find out.

2. The founders were aware and just didn't care or lacked the creativity to construct a unique brand.

Both make me disinterested in whatever they're shilling.