jazzychad

If you don't want to use homebrew on mac, here is the list of commands I used to upgrade: https://gist.github.com/jazzychad/07c0c6da5709202e8106

That's slightly different. It will prompt for a buffer name, which you can type in and tab-complete, but it's not quite as fast as the one-key switching (also it doesn't show a list of buffers unless you try to tab-complete while the prompt is empty).

I think this thread is my best shot at getting this question answered.. I've been using Emacs 23.x for the last several years because the buffer-switcher behavior changed in Emacs 24 and I have no idea how (or if it's even possible) to get the previous behavior back?

In Emacs 23 and below (for as long as I've used Emacs), I would change buffers by hitting F10-b (F10 brings up menu, b is shortcut for Buffers).

Then there is a nice little list of open buffers and the first letter of the filename is usually the shortcut to switch to that buffer.

This made it really fast to switch back and forth between multiple files (I want to go to index.html == F10-b-i ; now I want to switch back to about.html == F10-b-a), it was very simple.

Emacs 24 changed that behavior and so the quick switching between buffers based on the first letter of their filename went away.

Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Is it possible to get the previous behavior in 24? I'm slowly finding packages that won't compile in Emacs 23 anymore b/c they depend on new Emacs 24 elisp functions. I only ever use Emacs from inside a terminal (emacs -nw), so that's why I'm navigating buffers by the F10 menu.

EDIT: Well, I may be an idiot. I just downloaded the latest 24 build and it seems to be working as before again! Not sure when this changed, but maybe this is now a non-issue. I feel a bit silly, but maybe this will help someone else?

And still no webhooks - http://blog.jazzychad.net/2012/08/05/ifttt-needs-webhooks-st...

This one thing would blow up usage by developers across the board.

Just a slight correction: FTL had a very successful kickstarter which generated tons of marketing and hype before launch - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-tha...

Bastion was also published by Warner Brothers so it had some significant weight behind it.

Thanks. Yeah, I do too... I'm not sure how to push it. I just need a financier :)

Yes, searching for "Letters" is not great. The irony is that if the app was ranked highly it would show up much higher in the results, so it's a double-edge sword.

Regarding "undoing" a letter selection, you can't, and that was intentional. It simplifies the UI (you can however reset the whole word by trying to submit an invalid word), and even if you could undo, the time you would spend doing it would pretty much wreck your score for that round, so overall it's no good. I know this frustrates some people, but after several weeks of playtesting and hearing this complaint, after the first few rounds that complaint quickly vanished, so I stuck with my decision.

I don't disagree with you, and partly I have always wanted to write a game or two (I've published many other non-game apps, also w/o much financial success), but I wanted to learn about the market... and I did!

Hey, my "Alpha" program is still there! I remember learning Piet for the Perplex City ARG (2006/2007) and thought it was an amazingly weird language. Thanks for the memories!

...thx for the FUD on my three hour project I decided to give to the world. This is generally why I don't open-source stuff.

Feedback support is coming. Also as noted below, I am familiar with iOS push having built a previous YC startup around it.

Some class of people will want to do it themselves. I am one of those, presumably the audience on HN is full of those ppl, it's why I posted it here. Doing is learning.

yes, feedback service integration is next on the priority list. i think it should take about 30 minutes or so. so far this whole project is only a few hours of work. i don't open-source much of my code, but i thought this might be a good candidate.

more like Parse's push value-add (b/c they have a notion of push channels and devices). My previous startup (Notifo) was a push notification-as-a-service company, so I'm familiar w/ push. This was just a weekend project to scratch and itch for an app I'm currently writing and I didn't want to use a 3rd party service b/c they are too inflexible and too much lock-in.

interesting, i hadn't seen that! it does say it's not meant to be a front-facing server since it has no authentication, which is a slight downside (one of the reasons I added github auth to mine was to allow logging in from anywhere)

yes, PushServer uses the node-apn module for delivery, I just built the device token database, notion of channels, and the web frontend around it.

no, it doesn't require heroku, it could easily be used in other environment. i just used heroku initially since it was simple and free to spin up.

I'm not OP, but I do have a question I've been trying to get answered from Flurry for over a year. How do I see breakdowns of properties I set on events? I can't find any way to do this in the Flurry reporting dashboard. Mixpanel brings this information front and center.

should be fixed now

I use QuartzCore layers extensively, and especially lots of Core Animation for the in-app animation stuff. For UI widgets like buttons I mostly made subclasses of UIKit components. So, lots of both.

That's true. I'll add some credit to the app and website on the next rev.

It's not :) It is an app version of the same game. You're the first person who has made that connection in months of beta testing and showing people the app. I'm sure other people will recognize it as well, but I don't think it's as recognizable as was, say, Words With Friends was an app version of Scrabble.

You can play more concurrent games and change themes (color schemes) in the app. The free version lets you have 2 concurrent games and use the basic theme.

s'ok - I showed Loren before it launched, and he was cool with it :)

No code was shared. I wrote my own UIKit layer to accomplish the UI (whereas Loren used a 100% OpenGL implementation for Letterpress).

Please make your pages load faster. A 1.1MB header image which blocks other assets from loading doesn't do well for you.

I must admit, after watching Stammy use his Android day-to-day and proofreading this post, I am more tempted to try to use an Android as my main device from a consumer perspective. The seamless Google integration really is the killer feature.

However, from a developer perspective, I'm still staunchly in the "I want to build on iOS" camp because of the Android fragmentation issue and because there still seems to be an overwhelming majority of consumer spend on the iOS app ecosystem compared to Android. The Google apps on iOS are really very nice (though admittedly not as nice as their Android counterparts), but the only Google app I really want at this point is a Calendar app. Syncing and manipulating Google Calendar events with the native iOS Calendar app is still pretty terrible.

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to comment on this. I've updated the post to be more factually correct.

I want to add that in v2 as well. My current line of thinking involves animating all of the board/piece subview layers using 3d transform animations and moving them individually along paths away from the center of mass as they shatter/explode offscreen.

Yeah, it will support edits soon (I just got this much done last weekend...) Adding updates is next on the list - it should be easy since gists are editable/versionable. When this happens, the redis cache will be invalidated so that readers will always see the most recent version.

I am hosting an installation of this at http://txt.jazzychad.net/ if you want to see a reference implementation.

Also this system could be setup to be multi-tenant with multiple authors if anyone wanted to host such a site.

Hi, yes, it's the same campaign. You can only post a URL xor text on an HN submission, so I decided to post the backstory info as a comment instead.