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rfotino··on Show HN: Spaceship.codes – a game for programmers
My solution to the Obstacle level is here if anyone wants to copy & paste to see it in action: https://gist.github.com/rfotino/39b104fd61bc6c4d8cc24282c1f1...

It uses a servo(angle) function to turn to a specified angle and a state machine to string together turns and thrusts.

rfotino··on Solitaire, written inside the bootloader
Not an expert but since they didn't plan on actually booting an OS, perhaps they didn't need the partition table so those 64 bytes could go toward more instructions for solitaire.
rfotino··on Read deleted comments on Reddit
Very little information on the site -- how does this work? Presumably by storing the contents of every Reddit comment made since Decomment's creation and serving them up on demand? I imagine once you delete a comment on Reddit it's no longer available via the API or by scraping the site, but I was hoping something more interesting was going on than just storing comments in a separate database before they are deleted.
rfotino··on Alda: A music programming language
This looks great, I'll definitely be doing some experimenting! Any way to save the output to an audio file when you're done rather than just hearing it through Alda?
rfotino··on Breakout in Assembly
Author here, besides the textarea at the bottom containing the source you can find a repository for it at https://github.com/rfotino/consolite-breakout. I'll add a link to the repo in the article