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As in: "JSON was a huge deal, and this could also be a huge deal" or "Just use JSON"?

Dusting off the game I made during the pandemic and trying to actually grow the player base in earnest.

It's turn-based two-player game sorta like chess, but the pieces take up multiple spaces.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/kingbit/id1565583669

Scenario: A Canadian tech worker (software engineer) has been working in tech for 10-ish years, however, their University degree (general BA, BSc, etc) does not match the work that they've been doing. Would this person be SOL for a TN/H1B? To improve their chances would it be advisable to get a 1-year accelerated Master's in the field (CompSci, AI)?

I'm working on my online multiplayer game: kingbit (iOS). I released it back in 2023 and haven't touched the code since. It's still by far my most successful app (7.3M impressions, 500 MAU) so I'm excavating the code and going to try and seriously monetize this project into a real business.

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

May I interest you in Jevons paradox:

> In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use induces increases in demand enough that resource use is increased, rather than reduced.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Unfortunately, it's usually the case that the last 10/20/30% of a side project takes 90% of the work.

just read the clipboard

Well this is tremendously confusing. I 100% thought this was going to be 'ERB' related...

WWDC is in June. Lots of us are expecting better LLM integration and SDKs to be released then...

I think about this "potential for ossification" a lot, especially in the Python Data Stack.

Because there's a ton of pandas code on GitHub (much of it trash) any data task asked of ChatGPT/Claude inevitably returns some pandas (mostly correct, but often wrong/inefficient/ugly/hard to grok).

How could a new library (like Polars, or my own failed "redframes") possibly unseat pandas now? Might LLMs actually lead us to, and get us stuck in, a "local maximum" of sorts?

Likely chosen to preempt OpenAI's rumoured "Q*" model

This is such a weird take. Sam and Greg were at OpenAI for 8 years! Why is it assumed that their “potential contribution to advanced AI research” is contingent on their having spent (no/more/less) time at academic institutions decades ago?

What is this color palette?! Starts with blue (0-5) and loops back to blue (60+)

zombo.com*

This is a great metaphor! Every line of is a liability. And every line of code will eventually be replaced. So prioritize code that you can rip out and replace!

Whereas before I would Google something 20 times, and visit Stack Overflow 10 times per day while coding… Now I visit ChatGPT 28 times per day.

I think about this a lot. About how ChatGPT is perhaps cementing a lot incumbent tech right now. I wonder if the existence of these tools might actually slow down advances in frameworks, packages, libraries, etc...

Anything by Zach Gage… knotwords is a new favorite right now!

Curious: what monetization strategies do you find most inoffensive?

I think your own personal ranking will depend entirely on the production.

For instance, I saw the Stratford (Ontario) production of Timon of Athens a couple of years ago and it’s now one of my favorites.

King Lear, by contrast (and on the same stage) was a drag for me.

Much Ado About Nothing, though… Chef’s Kiss!

I think a good designer polls his dev team to help him figure out what’s a “big lift” and whats easy. And a good developer works with her designer to point out “big lifts” and helps find compromises!

I agree with you that v1 isn't a suitable replacement... right now. But what v2? v3?

My guess would be... patents? (Apple's got all the good ones?)

This is really unfortunate... I wonder if they'll adapt the varnish to work with structs in a future release

I really enjoyed reading Fermat's Enigma[1] a book about the guy who solved Fermat's Last Theorem.

A memorable quote from the book:

"It’s fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way—even if you don’t solve it at the end of the day."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-...

We could write a python package that could? A codegen tool that generates codegen that will then generate code? <insert xzibit meme here>

> If there’s a software equivalent of a Cathedral then I still haven’t found it.

Actually you have. It’s HN! The website that hasn’t changed in decades… used by the most tech savvy people in the world!

ChatGPT4 has replaced ~99% of my Google/StackOverflow searches...

Curiously most of the books have 31 reviews. And for those that have written reviews all of the Reviewers have names with the capitalization: "John smith", "First last".