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billychasen

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billychasen··on A free and open source bridge between Unity Editor and Claude or ChatGPT
I know there is a lot of contention about AI in games, but when used properly, you can really speed up development, without sacrificing art form.

If you've tried using AI with a unity project, you've probably noticed it starts to fail, especially when it needs to touch the editor.

Here's a quick demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taeGx0IDFrQ

billychasen··on Twilio’s toll fraud problem
Their console is very confusing, but if you are using Twilio Verify, you select your Service and tab over to SMS.
billychasen··on Show HN: Buy a new domain name and host it with one API call
We just launched our API and would love your thoughts. Last week we launched Picnic.sh (PH thread http://www.producthunt.com/posts/picnic) to try and make it a lot easier and cheaper to set up one-page domain names.

Today we are opening up our API beta. We're hoping people will find a lot of use for this for things like resumes, about pages, app landing pages, etc ...

Thanks!

billychasen··on Software engineering interview questions
This doesn't take into consideration the time to bring someone up to speed and their productivity hit from that. There is also cost and slowdown from the company's perspective to bring someone new up to speed (it usually will slow down others involved too).

You should just be sure you need and want to hire someone before they show up for their first day.

billychasen··on A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup
I did this on Saturday and will give WhimseyBox the benefit of the doubt to fix this by Mon/Tues before disputing with Amex. It's always a slow road when Amex investigates.
billychasen··on A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup
I literally just tried to sign up for this as a gift for someone this past weekend.

I tried to buy a year gift subscription and got an error message. It showed me a silly error message which included Ryan Gosling promising a foot massage for me to keep my calm. I mistakingly tried 2 more times and now see 3 charges on my credit card.

For what it’s worth, they use Stripe. I saw the $1 pending transaction they tried. Hopefully Stripe can shut them down.

billychasen··on StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object
I mean in terms of steps and to make it easy for others to append their own content after yours.
billychasen··on StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object
QR codes are just an embedded block of text. They can also redirect you to a URL, so in that case, it's just a shortcut to typing.

Stickybits allows you to actually write to barcodes (effectively using the barcode as just a pointer to lots of media)

No easy way to do this with QR and be social. Unless you set up a website.

No marketing, just want to use codes and attach digital content to real world objects.

billychasen··on StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object
To ensure the same type of experience across browsers, we decided to make much of the top images. Most people still use IE, and we didn't want gross rendered text.

Also, I like tables :) They just work.

billychasen··on StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object
Yes, you can create websites and link to them, but it's cumbersome.

With stickybits, you can just upload and you're done. And people see your resume immediately when scanned.

Also, the first person to scan a barcode is the "moderator" and can delete any content that gets posted.