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bugsmith··on Nebula Sans
I was excited about trying that in slack but got:

> /slackfont is not a valid command. In Slack, messages that start with “/” are interpreted as commands.

bugsmith··on OpenLogi
Honestly, I'm always blown away by accounts if "so I just wrote a binary switcher" dropped casually like this. I'm a software engineer and have been for over five years, but wouldn't even know where to _begin_ with something like that. Well, I would, I'd end up vibecoding a slop solution I didn't really understand.

How did you know / learn how to write a binary switcher?

bugsmith··on Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster
I quit somewhere around Tele-DAD being popular and ran Lightsworn myself. The introduction of Synchro really changed the pace of the game. Did it speed up more since then?
bugsmith··on Building a list of European projects/companies, can you help me to add more?
I see you have Revolut listed under fintech. If that makes the cut, I'd suggest also adding Monzo (https://monzo.com) and Starling (https://www.starlingbank.com) who both have wonderful APIs, especially Starling.
bugsmith··on Unciv
I have lost endless hours to Mindustry both on my phone and my PC. Really fantastic games, currently on its seventh major revamp.

If anyone is unsure about it, it's a bit like Factorio meets Tower Defence meets RTS.

bugsmith··on Show HN: React Spreadsheet 2
Genuine question: Why would anyone purchase this for $299, without the ability to use it commercially? For open-source projects?
bugsmith··on Mail-in-a-Box: a mail server in a box
Amazon SES is great, because you pay per email and the rate is incredibly cheap. Mailgun is very expensive though, and the problem is they have a very limited free tier, and then you must jump up to a $35/year package that gives 50,000 emails - this is simply far too much for many projects early on in their rollout.

I prefer something like Brevo, which has smaller jumps per tier or even something like MXRoute for $49 per year (limit of 300 emails/hour)

Edit: Completely forgot about ZeptoMail by Zoho - incredibly good value service.

bugsmith··on Bluesky migrates to single-tenant SQLite
I'd like to take you up on that, if you still have one going?