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raffomania··on Knakk: Free and Open Source Godot 4 Game
We need more release-quality open source games! With this project, I hope to show some real-world use cases of Godot 4 features. I've worked hard to make the docs and code understandable and well organized.
raffomania··on Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
Interesting - you're describing my experience with Unity, and I ultimately switched to Godot because of my frustration with Unity.
raffomania··on Reddit files to go public
I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :)

edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/

raffomania··on Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers
Most recently, he's actually rewriting all his tools in a forth-inspired language he's designed himself: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html
raffomania··on Elm Compiler Written in Elm
One of their stated goals is to show people how to write a compiler in Elm, and another is to allow programmers familiar with Elm to hack on the Elm compiler without needing to learn Haskell.
raffomania··on StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails
To me, this looks like one of the few real ways out of the madness that is modern frontend development. Excited to see the approach gaining adoption!
raffomania··on Have a personal web site
You make it sound like a big audience is the only thing that matters. The linked post talks about a personal website as a digital identity. Giving people a link so they can find you online is a good reason to have a website, even today.

Besides that, making your own website is rewarding in many other ways - Being creative, getting thoughts out of your head, pinning down certain arguments you tend to repeat, etc.

raffomania··on Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader
Calibre is a complex beast that has a bad track record regarding security and will keep using python 2 even after its deprecation.
raffomania··on Bye, Bye, Google
For anyone interested in more alternatives, https://switching.social is a well-written and maintained directory.
raffomania··on One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)
For one thing, you might not want to risk being in jail.
raffomania··on Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync
If you include this code in firefox itself, you can review the code and verify that the official firefox binaries use that code.
raffomania··on Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda
I find it interesting that this is financed by the EU.

My first reaction to this was a lot of skepticism - the article makes a lot of bold claims without backing any of them up. I was ready to write this off as another sleazy mud-throwing operation when I found the official EU site [0] describing the team and their goals - including "Effective communication and promotion of EU policies towards the Eastern Neighbourhood". The biased writing and this "promotion of policies" really make me think this is no better than the "fake news" everyone complains about.

[0] https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/21...

raffomania··on All software sucks (2011)
I can't believe how rude the comments in this thread were. I generally agree that we have too much complexity in software, but I also feel that often people take the "minimal" software notion to an extreme level of elitism, excluding and attacking people for reasons not related to the original goal to make better software.
raffomania··on What I've learned since quitting Elm
I agree, this is definitely a problem, especially for more ambitious use cases. I've done quite well without e.g. typeclasses, though.
raffomania··on What I've learned since quitting Elm
I'm using elm so I don't have to learn any of these things. I enjoy knowing almost all parts of the language. Also, in 95% of the cases, it provides enough flexibility to solve the task at hand.
raffomania··on Slack's bait and switch
This would be quite the workaround though, completely evading the root of the problem (slack).
raffomania··on Show HN: Memento Mori – a simple stoic reminder
Nice! I'm currently reading 'A guide to the good life' and am always looking for ways to incorporate stoicism into my daily life.

I'd love a 'distraction free' mode concentrating on only the timer (maybe even removing the 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds' texts) :)

raffomania··on The Subscription App Paradox
I'm hopeful that a Patreon-like donation model will prove successful for apps/products with a passionate userbase. Ulysses, as described in the article, does seem to have a pretty active community with a lot of people willing to pay.
raffomania··on Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
Has anyone read up on the proof-of-stakes algorithms mentioned in this article? I didn't hear of those before.
raffomania··on WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm
according to the article, the balances of the bitcoin addresses collecting the ransoms are

15.13562354 BTC = $26410 13.78022431 BTC = $24045 5.98851225 BTC = $17361

Assuming $300 per ransom, this works out to a total of 226 victims who paid. this seems a little low compared to the huge amount of infected devices.

raffomania··on I wrote a display server, a desktop environment, and a debugging/reversing tool
I love this! Just digging through the documentation, excited to play around with it :)
raffomania··on Programming cheat sheets
second this. devdocs is awesome.
raffomania··on Mern: Build JavaScript apps using React and Redux
What happened to yeoman? Wasn't it supposed to do exactly this and even more?
raffomania··on The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next
I especially agree with 3). I was expecting more people to mention this. Compared with other build systems like wepback or gulp, meteor rebuild times are insane.

edit: Just checked out the Meteor Roadmap, and build times are not even mentioned there.

raffomania··on The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next
I remember that I found the documentation quite hard to read at the time I was checking it out.
raffomania··on WebTorrent – BitTorrent over WebRTC
IIRC, torrent clients do heavy checksumming by default. You should be mostly safe from malicious content.
raffomania··on Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla
That's a good point. And running node.js on an IoT device still makes sense to me, but emulating a browser just seems unnecessary.
raffomania··on Chirimen, a Firefox OS-Powered IoT Single-Board Computer Developed by Mozilla
I never understood why people want to use browser technologies for the internet of things.
raffomania··on Fun with Swift
This behavior is one of the reasons not to call JS a 'functional' language, IMHO.
raffomania··on Show HN: I spent 6 years making a cool free game
The Google Drive link to linux seems to be the same as the one for the mac version. The OneDrive link works, though :)
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