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dested

982 karma · joined October 6, 2012

CTO, TypeScript Architect, Closet C# Zealot, Aspiring Game Developer
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dested··on Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game
Alright this is pretty high effort
dested··on Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding
I see redblobgames, I click
dested··on Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix
Unrelated but I have a similar problem with speech to text apps on windows, where due to the funkiness of claude codes (necessary) implementation, it doesn't send the keybindings correctly.

I sure wish it didn't have to be a console app

dested··on Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era
Windddddddoooowwwwwssssss
dested··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
Clever Benefits | Scottsdale, AZ (Hybrid — 2 days/week onsite, North Scottsdale) | Full-time | $140k–$180k | Senior Full Stack (React/React Native/Node/AWS)

Clever Benefits is hiring a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale our platform. You’ll ship end-to-end features across a React web app, React Native mobile app, Node.js/TypeScript backend, and AWS infrastructure. Small team, high ownership, production focus.

Stack: TypeScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, tRPC, AWS (Lambda, ECS/Fargate, S3, RDS), CI/CD.

Requirements: 8+ years experience; strong TypeScript; production React + React Native + Node; solid AWS background; Prisma/Postgres/tRPC; comfortable owning features from design → deployment. Must live within 30 miles of North Scottsdale and be able to be onsite 2 days/week.

Nice to have: TestFlight/Play Store workflows; monorepos (pnpm/bun workspaces); IaC (CDK/Terraform). Interest in using AI to accelerate development (codegen/automation) — with an emphasis on maintainable, high-quality engineering.

How to apply: Email your resume + a short note (and links/GitHub if you have them) to sal@cleverrx.com with subject “HN — Senior Full Stack Engineer”.

dested··on Claude Opus 4.1
If I'm using cursor then sonnet is better, but in claude code Opus 4 is at least 3x better than Sonnet. As with most things these days, I think a lot of it comes down to prompting.
dested··on Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone
Incredible use of remotion.
dested··on Kenney.nl: Free Game Assets
Kenney deserves all the success and kudos in the universe for his selfless contributions to indie game development.
dested··on Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?
Other side, I put out a job req for a remote react dev position a month ago and got 1k applications in a week. 95% were automated spam.
dested··on Show HN: Multi-Calendar Calendly Scheduler
Wo, this is strangely useful. I don't have this problem often, but when I do, it's super annoying.
dested··on It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
Here's someone that passed a 23 page congressional document:

https://twitter.com/SullyOmarr/status/1654576774976770048

dested··on Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
Yesssss, I have been looking for this type of service forever. I'm excited
dested··on Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?
Masters of doom, dozen times.
dested··on Deterministic Lockstep Multiplayer Games with Rollback for the Web
Hey HN! This post details the ridiculous journey of building a deterministic lockstep multiplayer game engine for the web, with all the painful decisions involved. Building the quickga.me web based editor was a monster with a ton of novel problems that needed to be solved and im trying to go through and document as many as possible so others can learn from them.

Let me know if there's any more detail you would like me to provide!

dested··on Fast-Paced Multiplayer (Part I): Client-Server Game Architecture
I can't tell you how many times I find myself back on this page while working on multiplayer games. From the bottom of my heart I really can't thank you enough for this tutorial.
dested··on Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers.

Unrelated story, I have a day one Stack Overflow account. I don't remember how I found it but I'm sure it was posted on digg or slashdot or something at the time. I had a lot of posts in the first few years about some generally broad concepts, and completely inactive since.

In spite of this, I am in the top 7% of accounts on the site, which is a nice reminder on the power of compound interest!

dested··on Show HN: Improve your front end skills by practicing on real design templates
This is absolutely brilliant.
dested··on Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?
This is easily one of my favorite monthly services I subscribe to. I will say that a good reason why I believe it has been so successful, 1 best its a good idea, but 2 because your brother has responded to all of my questions and issues immediately and gracefully. That is the sign of a business that cares.
dested··on Pattern Matching Custom Data Types in TypeScript
I understand the sentiment, but really you should be disappointed in the ECMA standard, typescript only implements stage 3 and hire.
dested··on Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps
I share your skepticism, but this is exactly how Flutter works, hand reimplementing all the ui components for both platforms. Granted it is backed by a resource rich company, but it's not the most unheard of approach.
dested··on AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
There are a handful of services out there that do this, I know because I've needed it on multiple occasions. It's nice that Amazon is providing it in house now, but it just reminds of me the last time I went to re:invent and walked through the vendor area and thought about how many of these companies are four dev cycles away from Amazon producing a baked in competitor.

Hard to make a B To B Amazon tool these days.

dested··on Announcing TypeScript 3.0
I imagine most code bases will contain a very small number (probably zero) type definitions with a spread tuple type. There are only so many ways to solve being type safe in a language that is so permissive, and sometimes it causes the result to look ugly. Ideally 95% of end users will never need to type this, only rely on it.
dested··on What Does “One JS” Mean in a World of Transpilers?
Does this help the JS engines? Instead of _knowing_ the developers intent and optimizing for it, it has to infer what the transpiler outputted and optimize for that. One seems harder than the other.
dested··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)
STYR Labs | Mid Level, Typescript Mobile | Scottsdale, Phoenix | Full-time, ONSITE | Competitive Salary

STYR Labs is looking for a Mid - Senior JavaScript/TypeScript developer to add to our mobile and web teams. We have a native mobile app built using Tabris.JS that is in the health and wellness/wearable space, and several web portals built using angular or react. The ideal candidate is local to phoenix, interesting in playing with new technologies, rapid prototyping features, and interested in a startup environment.

Apply here: https://styrlabs.workable.com/jobs/558167 (mention you saw the listing on HN)

Website: https://styr.com/

dested··on Show HN: Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game
Do both websocket connections send the same data, or do you split your data logically between two channels (movement data vs state data)
dested··on Show HN: Twitter Plays Tetris
With the new twitter limits you can put 16x16 characters with 24 characters to spare. If you use the braille character set, this puts you at 32x64 available pixels. Realizing this, I figured the best use of my saturday was to make tetris. If anyone has any questions, let me know!
dested··on Access 2200+ JavaScript libs in C# using Retyped
This is an incredible use of the wealth of d.ts files there are! I've used bridge.net in the past and it's great using the .net toolset and c# language to build production ready javascript.
dested··on Chrome's Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates
What could the lifetime value of a Norton customer be that they went to such incredible lengths to aquire?
dested··on Apple Announces Full WebRTC Support in Safari 11
Wow, this has been a long time coming. So many shoddy video communication hacks can finally go away. This is huge.
dested··on Twilio Functions – Public Beta
I would guess it's related to the prevalence of javascript combined with the low barrier to entry to build javascript app and the relatively low startup time of a nodejs app.
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