jonahss

Wyldcard creator here, thanks to HowToWare for the interview.

It's a link cable to connect your base to your friend's when you play against them. I link it into itself just to keep it tidy and it doubles as a strap to carry it by.

Hi, Wyldcard creator here, thanks to HowToWare for the interview :)

The cards can store data, and I imagine that things which happen to the card during a game leave a lasting impact, which is carried from game to game. The cards grow and change over time, and so when you trade one, you're trading an entire legacy :D

In 2018 I managed a team at a marijuana startup and was evaluating Triplebyte for recruiting. One evening, after sampling our own product (post-deploy smoke tests), I went through the Triplebyte quiz to see what my candidates would experience.

A couple years later I was job hunting myself, and went back to my Triplebyte profile. I sheepishly admitted that I didn't bring my A-game to the quiz, but was told I couldn't retake it, even though it had been a few years. Odd to me that there wasn't a provision to account for candidate's skills to grow over time. Got plenty of interviews anyways >.>

I used Triplebyte successfully for recruiting as a manager at two companies, and was sad to watch it decay and die while working at a third :(

I hired some of the best people I've ever worked with on Triplebyte.

sounds neat. link?

I agree. And I think the key to this is VR.

Another comment in this thread is about how hard graphs are to visualize, but a 3D interface gives you a lot more room.

When VR hype began I thought "well what's the excel of VR?". Microsoft's answer was "2D spreadsheets floating in 3D space". What nonsense. I think graphs.

email my username at gmail.com if anyone is interested in exploring this together!

There's another important element: the ability to judge quality.

Many people (especially baby boomers) learned a shortcut, by using brand name as a proxy for quality of goods. The problem with this is that all those brands eventually outsourced and sold themselves and cashed in on the old brand quality association. Cheapening and cheapening as the producers realized that people still bought their product no matter what the quality was. Also, people equate flair and style of product with the quality, because they aren't actually good judges of quality. You can find many cheap junk products today that retain a poor skeuomorphic shadow of their former glory. At some point consumers learned "well if it has the shiny chrome it's a good one" and producers learned they could add a chunk of shiny plastic and people would prefer their product.

Brand names are worthless now, for the most part, and if you're not good at judging quality yourself, it can be a difficult consumer landscape to navigate.

I agree. I feel like the author is upset at pens given out at banks and restaurants to sign stuff. As cheap as possible, Minimum Viable Pen for sure.

I buy a few packs of my favorite uniball pens every year and sprinkle them around the house and in all my bags. Very happy with them.

one thing about some of the shitty products out there today is we got MUCH better at making things out of less material. So they break easier and wear out faster, but we've been able to reduce material usage along with price.

If you're a person who loses pens or holds onto them so long the ink dries up, it'd be better to waste an object made as cheaply as possible than one made to last.

This is a balance to play as well.

the Miele vacuums are incredible.

If you want appliances that last, buy the commercial ones. Hobart makes an under counter dishwasher that you can bet will never wear out and can be repaired.

Shell out for an industrial washing machine like they have at the laundromats. Those things are made to run all day for years. If they break down, they're repairable.

I listened to a bunch of Car Talk episodes from the 80s and early 90s and holy cow, those cars were all breaking down constantly!

Ok no.

First of all: survivorship bias. All of the old appliances that still work are only the ones which still work. This goes for the author's juicer.

Second: things which have investment attention now are excellent quality and things which are waning towards the end of their lifecycle are having the last few corners cut before the Private Equity firm that now owns them throws in the towel, throughly wrung dry. Author's examples: staples - the age of paper documents is over. matches - the Bic lighter is a modern marvel. plastic grocery bags - banned in more places every year. pens - same as staples.

But now, turn your eye to products being actively invested in now? Some may be at their peak this very moment.

And if you want something quality, go spend for it. I've got an industrial stapler like you wouldn't believe, 50 sheets of paper easy.

For Demolition category, there's this old N64 game which has stuck in my memory: Blast Corps

I also use tin snips on these packages!

somebody made a keyboard using a type case layout: https://youtu.be/vdP_sTMOWYo

I'm building trading cards made with e-ink displays.

https://www.wyldcard.io/blog/introducing-wyldcard

https://www.crowdsupply.com/wyldcard/wyldcard-devkit

I've had a good experience using InvokeAI. It's mostly done through a `pip install`

I had the same problem, the last question added new information.

Oh, you can buy as many cards as you want. Figuring out how to make a good game without too many cards is definitely a constraint. At $15-20 a card, a 60 card deck is pretty pricey.

It's possible!

Ah, you can use them like playing cards, like Magic the Gathering or something similar, but the cards can change when placed on a base. This unlocks game mechanics which aren't possible with only cardboard.

The display is slow because I'm doing a full refresh to prevent shadowing.

If you're used to really quickly animated "e-ink" screens like those on the Pebble watches and Playdate, those are actually memory-in-pixel LCDs. While memory-in-pixel is very low power, it still requires some power at all times, whereas these true e-paper screens hold their image without any power at all.

Also, they're the cheapest displays I could get.

It's starting now and will go for 5 weeks. The raising threshold is $1 because even with one order I'll still deliver units.

The more orders in this campaign, the more units Crowd Supply will order to keep on stock, so there's potentially 50% matching on each sale in this campaign.

After the initial excitement from my Show HN post, Crowd Supply, an open source hardware crowdfunding site reached out about launching my proposed dev kit on their site!

After five months of putting everything in order for the campaign, I'm launching! Happy for the chance to get Wyldcard into the hands of more people.

LLMs are great for Rubber-ducking!

This is like when all the devs at a company say that management has to stop all feature development for six months while they work on tech debt

I used Triplebyte from both sides, as a candidate as well as a hiring manager. I hired some great people from them, but over the past couple years watched as their standards slid, pricing models changed, and sales practices went from friendly to cutthroat :/

My friend's company got the interest of investors, and was acquired, after his blog posts got to the top of HN three times in as many months.

Thanks to all the HN upvotes in December, open source hardware crowdfunding site Crowd Supply reached out, and is hosting my campaign to sell a Wyldcard DevKit.

With a JS or Rust SDK, purchasers will be able to program their own games to take advantage of the new mechanics Wyldcards unlock.

If you missed the original post, check out: https://www.wyldcard.io/blog/introducing-wyldcard

And today, I have an app on my phone which will summon a self-driving car to pick me up and drop me off (within very strict parameters in space and time).

For anyone checking back here: Someone suggested I start a Discord server. Feel free to join: https://discord.gg/DXr2eWPk

aha! So there is a catch. Still worth checking out.