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beepy

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beepy··on Wordle Is a Love Story
If you happen to be on an Apple device, may I humbly suggest you look up "Three Magic Words" on the app store. It's a different take on the same root game, sometimes called "Jotto" or "Ghost."
beepy··on Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game
I have an iOS game based on the same root game but with a different spin — let me know if you'd be willing to be a beta tester.
beepy··on Show HN: Five Letters – word puzzle game
This - and Wordle - are games that existed before the internet. I played this on paper as a child.
beepy··on Lucid – software architecture for scalable Laravel projects
I suspect I might be the target audience, but I can't tell what this project is from the front page. With a little digging it looks like a considerable investment of time to find that out.

I think an example, with code, of a problem encountered with plain Laravel that this architecture - that's "not another architecture" - solves would be more helpful than the broader messaging that's there now, especially since it is addressing a fairly technical audience.

Perhaps it is difficult to explain, but that's all the more reason to provide concrete examples up front.

beepy··on HTML Sanitizer API
I'll bite - why is 2 right but 4 wrong? Is it because it's not reversible? Is it in case your sanitization rules change?
beepy··on A Labyrinth for Our Time
Piranesi was very enjoyable and refreshingly novel. The setting, the "house" which is the real star, has stayed with me even though I read it months ago. While it may technically be a mystery, it felt more like a fantastic and exquisite space that you get to inhabit for a time an examine from every angle. It's short and light enough that it's not much of an investment — well worth the small risk to pick it up.

I happen to be re-reading Jonathan Strange and am enjoying it even more than the first time.

beepy··on Dev Fonts
Can confirm. I used to love tiny fonts for coding, for everything — more text, less scrolling! 10, maybe 11pt. But as I approached 50, I started bumping font sizes up. When one of my eyes actually started twitching, I gave in and got glasses. My 20 year-old self would shake his head at my 50 year-old self in his glasses, peering at his 15pt code.
beepy··on NASA Funded Scientists Claim Breakthrough in Propellantless Propulsion
From the article:

> Mike McDonald, an aerospace engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Maryland, will be among the first [attempt to replicate their results]. He leads an internal program for independently testing advanced propulsion systems, which has previously shot down promising results from the EmDrive.

beepy··on Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
John Ritchie was my high school English teacher! After I chose something about computers as a topic for some essay, he asked me if I knew what Unix was. I did not.
beepy··on Embracing Swift for Deep Learning
From the link:

> recent versions of Python have added type annotations that optionally allow the programmer to specify the types used in a program. However, Python’s type system is not capable of expressing many types and type relationships, does not do any automated typing, and can not reliably check all types at compile time. Therefore, using types in Python requires a lot of extra code, but falls far short of the level of type safety that other languages can provide.

beepy··on How to quit your job in 837 easy steps
This resonated with me as well, but the unfortunate kernel of truth near the end is that the author had made enough money that she could afford to quit without knowing how she was going to make money.
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