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POiNTxon Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity [video]

What I'm trying to say is that people should integrate whatever is coming. You can't fight it.

But one can invent a car and still ride a horse. What's lost is that everyone now rides a car and not a horse.

You can still find your own values and express them in your own way, AI doesn't prevent that.

POiNTxon Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity [video]

I understand the sentiment, but it's the wrong approach. Better to embrace and integrate than to bitterly fight what's inevitably coming. Every technology has had its negative impact, there's always something that dies and can't be replaced. But, something else takes it place and gets brought to life, and that's beautiful in it's own way.

POiNTxon Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop

Does the pressure to click on the trackpad feel 'even' across the entire trackpad? For example, does clicking at the top feel the same as the bottom? That's something I never got used to on my ThinkPad, clicking on the top is basically impossible.

POiNTxon Switching to Elixir

Behaviours might be what you're looking for, they're the closest thing to inheritance in Elixir.

And you're absolutely right about genservers being objects :)

POiNTxon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada

Availability: +- 20 hours per week or less, hourly or contract work

- Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

- Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 8+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

Location: Vancouver Canada, Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte, Django, Python

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hn@wout.space

GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

Website: https://wout.space/

Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 8+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

Availability: part-time, +- 20 hours per week or less

POiNTxon Dev sets up "goatse" trap for sites that steal his free web game

I made a free webgame and it increased my traffic at least 10x when these websites started putting it on their websites. I liked it as it got my game more players. It's for fun anyway. It's statically hosted on CloudFlare pages so I don't pay anything except for the domain. Shoutout to crazygames as they were the only one to reach out and ask for permission.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Why aren't Django Admin style dashboards popular in other frameworks?

You can perfectly do business logic operations through the django Admin. It's extensible, and doesn't require a lot of effort to set it up.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)

Location: Vancouver Canada,

Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte, Django, Python

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hn@wout.space

GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

Website: https://wout.space/

Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 8+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

Availability: part-time, +- 20 hours per week or less

POiNTxon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada Availability: +- 20 hours per week or less, hourly or contract work

- Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

- Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 8+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

POiNTxon Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now?

Anyone with a Macbook Air 15 inch M2 running asahi? What has your experience been like?

POiNTxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)

Location: Vancouver Canada,

Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte, Django, Python

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hn@wout.space

GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

Website: https://wout.space/

Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

Availability: part-time, +- 20 hours per week or less

POiNTxon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada Availability: +- 20 hours per week or less, hourly or contract work

- Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

- Past projects: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

POiNTxon Bun v0.8

Bun is an executable as far as I understand. Would it be possible to call Bun directly from another language with bindings?

For example Erlang (and Elixir) has Native Implemented Functions[0] (NIF) where you can call native code directly from Erlang. Elixir has the zigler[1] project where you can call Zig code directly from Elixir.

Maybe you can see where I'm going with this, but it would be super cool to have the ability to call Javascript code from within Elixir. Especially when it comes to code that should be called on the server and client. I'm the developer of LiveSvelte[2] where we use Node to do SSR but it's quite slow atm, and would be very cool to use Bun for something like this.

In any case Bun is super impressive, keep it up!

[0] https://www.erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html

[1] https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler

[2] https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

POiNTxon Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on

https://territoriez.io/

(No tutorial yet, click on the castle and move around with WASD. E to undo a move.)

Little multiplayer web game made with Elixir and Svelte. Based on the game generals.io.

Not mobile friendly atm.

POiNTxon Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use

I tend to ignore the whole context thing in Phoenix, it confused me in the beginning when I was learning about Elixir and Phoenix. It's a design pattern instead of a core functionality of the framework.

Just think about what are good interfaces and abstractions. Seperate your core functionality from your "view" functionality as Phoenix sets it up for you anyway (App = core and AppWeb is your external view layer, being a webpage, json api, liveview, etc). You might end up with something that looks like a context and that's ok, but it shouldn't be what you start from.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)

Location: Vancouver Canada, Remote Remote: Yes (Remote only) Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte, Django, Python

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hn@wout.space

GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

Website: https://wout.space/

Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

Past project: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

Availability: part-time, +- 25 hours per week or less

POiNTxon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada Availability: +- 25 hours per week or less, hourly or contract work

- Current project: https://territoriez.io/ (Elixir/Phoenix/LiveSvelte)

- Past project: https://geoquest.gg/ (made with SvelteKit), https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

POiNTxon Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences

Yes :)

POiNTxon Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences

I'm biased since I made LiveSvelte, but it works quite well! I made a video to showcase some of its features here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMkvbW35QvA

Working with it in a real project now, instead of toy examples like in the video, it works really well for when you have highly complex components that rely on quite a lot of local state.

What you'll find is the developer experience is quite nice with LiveSvelte compared to JS hooks.

POiNTxon Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences

I'm building a multiplayer real time web based game (io style, 2 ticks per second, so not 64 like a true realtime game). It seems to work quite well so far. I'm using https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte for the frontend with pixi.js for the rendering.

POiNTxon Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools

https://streamable.com/c4uoic

Turned off vimium and ublock and still the case. Don't think I have any weird js going on. Also happens in incognito. I'm on desktop.

POiNTxon Benefit Layers: How to avoid sales fluff in devtools

When clicking on "Demos", the top nav bar stops working for me. I'm on the latest chrome.

POiNTxon Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

Your blog is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada Availability: +- 25 hours per week or less, hourly or contract work

- Current project: https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- Past project: https://geoquest.gg/ (made in SvelteKit)

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

POiNTxon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023)

Location: Vancouver Canada, Remote Remote: Yes (Remote only)

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte, Django, Python

Résumé/CV: Upon request

Email: hn@wout.space

GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

Website: https://wout.space/

Current project: https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

Past project: https://geoquest.gg/ (made in SvelteKit)

Full-Stack Web Developer. Looking for Elixir/Phoenix work. 7+ years of professional experience working with various web technologies, mainly Python, Django and Svelte(Kit). Would be open for working with Python/Django/Svelte(Kit). Also open to work on frontend and/or backend only projects. Website refresh/new website projects is also something I'm interested in.

Availability: part-time, +- 25 hours per week or less

POiNTxon Rock engravings made by Homo Naledi ~300k years ago

Longer video with better resolution of the images and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4WsgMUtJTU

POiNTxon How some common material imbalances affect your win-rate

Sort of like this (but without guessing the best move):

https://makotoe.github.io/guess-the-eval/

POiNTxon List one task, do it, cross it out

I used to do this. Not anymore as I feel I can do it without having to write it down nowadays.

I even wrote a little app for it: https://todo.wout.space/

POiNTxon OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux

How's proton support nowadays? The new M2 15-inch macbook Air looks really appealing