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One of the most interesting parts was having this benchmark setup available over the last couple of months. It has made each new release something fun I can spend my night tokens on. The newest models really show the consistency I hadn't seen until Fable 5.1 and Astra 6.

Around to answer any questions or hear any feedback on the visualizations.

Working on a rogue-like discord activity game (soon to be multiplayer) that connects to Cloudflare durable object web sockets.

It takes my favorite elements from games like: WoW character min-max design and rotation Diablo 2/POE for item and crafting inspiration Slay the spire dungeon flow/fights.

It is uses pixel art I commissioned a decade ago that I am looking to finish a game with.

Looking for some early feedback! https://crux.lakin.dev/

Excellent content Josh! Something about being able to adjust knobs makes me enjoy diving deep into a subject. I am excited for more of your course/posts.

Popdog | Frontend/Backend Software Engineer | Santa Monica (Los Angeles), CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Popdog (https://popdog.com) is a technology and services company focused on fixing core problems in the esports and live streaming industry. Our technical team is working to build the backend of gaming to support both our talent (Inlcuding Ninja, Shroud, LIRIK, summit1G, TimTheTatman and many more: https://loaded.gg/) and streaming/esports as a whole. We are looking for talented frontend and backend engineers to work with us in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA).

* Frontend: Typescript, React, GraphQL, Webpack https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/0c6443a2-09c5-4a27-a536-2270037....

* Backend: Experience with Go, Python, Ruby or JavaScript (Typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/3377b4f4-2b54-4a78-a9ad-1a40ed0....

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Popdog | Frontend/Backend Software Engineer | Santa Monica (Los Angeles), CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Popdog (https://popdog.com) is a technology and services company focused on fixing core problems in the esports and live streaming industry. Our technical team is working to build the backend of gaming to support both our talent (Inlcuding Ninja, Shroud, LIRIK, summit1G, TimTheTatman and many more: https://loaded.gg/) and streaming/esports as a whole. We are looking for talented frontend and backend engineers to work with us in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA).

* Frontend: Typescript, React, GraphQL, Webpack https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/0c6443a2-09c5-4a27-a536-2270037....

* Backend: Experience with Go, Python, Ruby or JavaScript (Typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/3377b4f4-2b54-4a78-a9ad-1a40ed0....

All Available Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/popdog

Popdog | Frontend/Backend Software Engineer | Santa Monica (Los Angeles), CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Popdog (https://popdog.com) is a technology and services company focused on fixing core problems in the esports and live streaming industry. Our technical team is working to build the backend of gaming to support both our talent (Inlcuding Ninja, Shroud, LIRIK, summit1G, TimTheTatman and many more: https://loaded.gg/) and streaming/esports as a whole. We are looking for talented frontend and backend engineers to work with us in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA).

* Frontend: Typescript, React, GraphQL, Webpack https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/0c6443a2-09c5-4a27-a536-2270037....

* Backend: Experience with Go, Python, Ruby or JavaScript (Typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/3377b4f4-2b54-4a78-a9ad-1a40ed0....

All Available Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/popdog

Popdog | Frontend/Backend Software Engineer | Santa Monica (Los Angeles), CA | Full-Time | Onsite

Popdog (https://popdog.com) is a technology and services company focused on fixing core problems in the esports and live streaming industry. Our technical team is working to build the backend of gaming to support both our talent (Inlcuding Ninja, Shroud, LIRIK, summit1G, TimTheTatman and many more: https://loaded.gg/) and streaming/esports as a whole. We are looking for talented frontend and backend engineers to work with us in Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA).

* Frontend: Typescript, React, GraphQL, Webpack https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/0c6443a2-09c5-4a27-a536-2270037...

* Backend: Experience with Go, Python, Ruby or JavaScript (Typescript) https://jobs.lever.co/popdog/3377b4f4-2b54-4a78-a9ad-1a40ed0...

All Available Positions: https://jobs.lever.co/popdog

I am glad to hear that exercise and diet works well for you, but there are some of us that aren't so lucky. I have been through four different rheumatologists, and plenty of non-drug related therapy attempts. I even consider myself lucky that Humira has been so helpful.

I also have AS and started with NSAIDs, and would advise you be very careful with your stomach. I was taking indomethacin that made the stiffness slightly manageable but acid reflux symptoms became a serious issue. After switching to Humira I have no more active pain or stiffness, with only some minor uveitis (in an eye that has many other issues). I wish someone would warned me earlier because my stomach has never been the same. Unable to even drink tea at the moment because of my reflux issues. Also to note, I have had zero issues with my immune system and I have been using it for about 5 years and through 3 eye surgeries.

http://draftutility.com/ - Daily Fantasy sports research utility that uses visual guides to accurately estimate performances. It also helps simulate lineups that optimize salary cap usage and projected score.

I think the switch to an async back-end can be more initial work than many expect. It may take some time to feel as productive, but promises become powerful and became a game changer for me over my previous work with callbacks. Error handling also becomes manageable.

What I really enjoy is jumping into new community and getting to work with tools that have built. Choosing the right ones can make or break an experience. I personally enjoyed working with Express and Bookshelf.js/Knex.

I appreciate the authors perspective, but I also don't think this should deter anyone from trying out Node. I personally have no overwhelming preference to using a Python or Javascript stack.

Thanks for the nice demonstration. Looks like the speed test is running of a very random source image that might not be yours. If it isn't, you might want to look at hosting your own image for it.

Great Documentation, excited to try things out.

There are so many different paths available when college is on the table. Even for software developers, it starts you with a very strong base and gives you the ability help and contribute to research that is happening on campus. My computer science degree was not cheap, but it was so important in my personal life and my career. I agree that college isn't perfect, but was well worth my investment in it.

I personally want to make sure my children have as many options on the table. I would value their education as a much more important investment than any other luxuries.

PHP frameworks have come a long way, and so has the language. The big thing that stands out, is that three of the best frameworks in the space (Laravel, Symfony and Slim) work together and feel a friendly/healthy sense of competition. They are reusing each others components and building a much more promising future for PHP.

Thanks for writing this up, it is always interesting and saddening to getting a deeper look at indie development on the app store.

It seems like more simplistic puzzle games like these have potential to completely blow up, but the market is also completely flooded with them. And I have found that it can be difficult to find quality in the genre. I would imagine that games that have heavier focus on art and polish can make a world of difference. It seems it gets attention from blogs/review sites and more probable for Apple to feature them.

Regardless, it is frustrating that your hard work that goes into these games didn't get the attention they may have deserved. Keep up the great work and hopefully we hear back from you soon about a monetarily successful game, whether that be in the app store or elsewhere.

Congrats on putting out such a great looking game so quickly! Solid polish and fits right in on the app store. I bought it an gave it a try and it was pretty fun. I was able to figure out a trick pretty quick that took most of the challenge away, but for the six weeks, very impressive.

A couple pieces of the article did bother me though:

I think all the planning you did helped you stay on course, but I also think it is important to constantly question your game and take time where needed to make sure it is fun. Creating a game that is fun is not usually an easy and quick task.

"Users never like what you like" - I beg to differ. While it is important to make sure that you are not the only one that likes the game (if you want it to sell), most indie game developers focus on making something they love. This concept has lead to an amazing revolution of really original and amazing indie titles.

Honestly my product is more of a vitamin that a pain killer. But I am striving to make the it a product that enhances something that they already do. It is mostly built out, but I am finding that this is going to be a great way to find good beta users as well.

Thanks for the response. I am excited to jump into more of it and will start trying out things like seeing how people use my very early stage product.

Thanks! fixing that right now

I would love some high resolution images of these.

With solutions like Heroku you can quickly scale your site and only be charged by the hour. Same story with a more hands of approach like EC2, although it probably will take extra work.

I am leaning towards the demo with the full game unlock as an in-app purchase. I feel it is a great way to reach a large audience, make sure the user enjoys the game before buying it, and keeps the user from being constantly annoyed by attempts to sell micro-transaction items.

I love art like this. Does anyone have any goto spots for more work like this?

Looks great guys, loved your submission last year too!

That looks amazing, bookmarking this for sure. Thanks!

Thanks, I totally agree. The tessnet2 engine I am using didn't seem to have very in depth training. If it was a more serious project I would have looked to use tesseract 3 which seems to have more flexibility for training.

Thank you!

Wow this looks amazing too, thanks!