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You (and others) may enjoy Adam Savage's new book. He was one of the Mythbusters guys. In one of the first chapters he writes about his love of lists and checklists, and the impact it makes on the process of "making." I'm only a few chapters in so far but it's been a fun read so far.

It looks like there is an article talking about this specifically here on Wired if you want to dip your toes in: https://www.wired.com/story/adam-savage-lists-more-lists-pow...

I'd be curious to hear more about this. Is there a certain time of year, is there a certain area you need to stay, what time of night, etc. Feel free to shoot me a link if there is already a good resource explaining some of this

The Northern Lights have been on my bucket list as well for quite some time but have always let the seemingly random chance of actually seeing them dissuade me from really planning something.

One of your side hustles is currently making 6 figures in revenue, but you're saying you haven't hit "escape velocity yet?" I'm curious if your goals are more ambitious, or perhaps 6 figures of _revenue_ isn't necessarily profitable enough to sustain you?

>But I said that about 2018, and 2017 too. Rings so true for me as well, unfortunately! This tweet from Justin Jackson has been making it's rounds the last couple of days, maybe it will be encouraging to you: https://twitter.com/mijustin/status/1068773791952584704

It's kind of a shame that this is the most up voted comment where this guy is just sharing something cool he made, he's not saying it's the next big thing. It may not be worth spending the time to optimize for these other platforms unless he can get some initial traction.

I would be curious to know where the performance lies and what could be done to improve. I saw on another commend he mentioned how using a css blur was a big performance gain over canvas shadowBlur

That was it! Man completely forgot about that game! This is a great take on it, I was able to quickly have fun, especially once I was able to recognize the concept. I love that you can mod via JSON as well. Do you have the code open sourced anywhere?

Was this inspired by a custom map on Warcraft 3? Name is escaping me right now.. Been such a long time since I played it!

Would love to know about some of the tech you used to build it

Hey, something where my two cents might actually be valuable :)

I created the VS Code plugin for Optic: https://github.com/opticdev/optic-vscode-plugin. It was actually my first time writing a text editor plugin, but between the VS Code docs, Optic SDK, and Optic plugin spec, it was surprisingly easy. The information just gets sent through web sockets under the hood, but it was all just basic javascript callbacks and some VS Code specifics for finding ranges, etc.

Optic itself isn't particularly useful for me as a solo developer building small website frontends, but I must say I was a little jealous of those that this is geared towards because even developing the plugin gave me a couple of those "magic" moments. Getting to make a change to just some javascript object's property and then get to keep it in sync was pretty satisfying.

Agreed, but I would imagine a meaningful population of people would do the same thing in that situation

Curious to hear what book you are referring to, and what physical skill you learned that carried over into your career

I'm also curious to see this. I think a lot of the really strong programmers I know do this instinctually where as I have to be more deliberate breaking things down. Perhaps some of it is that they are able more more naturally hold it in their minds than writing it out on a piece of paper like I do. Maybe they "learned how to learn" in that way better than I did when they were younger.

I had a similar fee when I tried to send a friend $30 of BTC to a paper wallet for Christmas. Ended up just walking him through setting up a Coinbase account and gave him $30 cash and he just link his own credit card (although he was never able to get past the pending account verification)

Thanks for highlighting this, I'm going to share with all of my friends investing/thinking of investing in the crypto space. Always good to get a reminder to take everything you read with a grain of salt. Also rarely get to see these almost short-term post-mortems, which give the (seemingly) whole picture of what happened with the price increase and following decrease.

Similar situation on El Capitan.. it doesn't crash the browser but gives a lot of "Safari Web Content quit unexpectedly." I felt like it had to be just me because how could something so glaringly obvious be the case for everyone and they not fix it?

Yea this site is fantastic. I just discovered the site because of two threads that made it to the front of HN today. I've already spent a couple hours reading all the other articles, I think I'll likely become a member

Really awesome. Surprised by how much time I spent on there. I noticed when I tried to download it in Safari, it didn't work because I don't think fetch is supported. Would have been good to get a notice about that earlier on. Would also be nice to see what exactly the download button is going to provide (just a zip of HTML/css/JS files I assume?)

Thanks for sharing, will probably come back to this. Happy to sign up for email updates

I'd still like to read about how you did that!

Would enjoy seeing a summary of this rather than having to go through every slide. I did go through about 30 slides though and it was pretty interesting, thanks for putting this together

Same. Awesome looking watch, but after trying to scroll up and down a few times I was like welp guess I won't be finding out more about this watch! Impossible to find out what's in the middle of the site

Agreed on both points. Granted if it was "Flexbox in 20" I may have been less likely to take a look :)

Who is "we?" At first I thought you did the whole thing by yourself and was going to say I'm always amazed by the people who can design and code, especially a game. Seems impossible. Great stuff regardless how many people worked on it though. That's insane you did literally no marketing and the App Store picked it up like that, especially these days, congrats!

I've often felt the same way. I've found things just by spending time brainstorming, and keeping it in the back of my mind as I go about my week. You can actually come up with a lot of ideas just by practicing observation of daily tasks you have.

I'd also recommend attending a Startup Weekend or hackathon of some kind and just joining up with a group working on something interesting. Being around the creativity at these can the wheels turning even afterwards

Yea, it's kind of odd they don't explain some of these things in more detail on their site. If they do then maybe I'll invest some time playing around with it

Thanks for the comment! That's a good idea, I will continue developing the app and keep that in mind. Since I didn't really know what I was doing, I ended up rewriting things several times anyway so I guess as long as I kept re-documenting I would have been okay ha.

Hm, good call, thanks for that. Looks like there's a binding for Nodejs out there too: https://github.com/peterbraden/node-opencv

Anyone know if these guys making these games are using some kind of library for the image processing or what? Seems pretty complicated to do

Great, thanks, subscribed!

Thanks for the write up, I enjoyed the explanation of even the little details throughout the app.

I see that's probably what it is, thanks for the info. I will probably just need to download them.

Looks promising, but the videos don't seem to buffer for me at least. My internet isn't strong enough to play it continuously so I normally just pause videos, wait a few minutes, then try playing them. Doesn't seem to make a difference with their videos for some reason. Any tips?