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They both look like great options! Do you know any games being made with them?

This sounds like a great solution for visually complex 3d games. In my case I would take care of the UI layer on my own, so am looking more for state-syncing, management of user-turns, broadcasting and so on.

This looks very good and well-fitting for my use-case. Will have a closer look. Thanks!

I wasn’t aware that so many parallel websocket connections were possible. I would like to enable ~500 people to play at the same time. So using websockets might work after all.

Boardgame.io looks fantastic! JavaScript based frameworks / libraries without a view layer are exactly what I am looking for!

No, just for fun, likely open source. Tabletop simulator looks great, but I want to create a custom 2d interface, so I don’t think this is an option.

Any specific reason for this?

Nice! For my game I want full control over the UI, so this won’t be an option, but for future ones this looks like a great one!

Interesting! I never used SSE, because I read that it is more complicated than websockets.

I am planning to create a very simple game (visually), using a front-end framework like Vue or React. I don’t think I will need an engine like Unity.

Are there any peer to peer protocols in particular that you can recommend for this use-case?

Same for me. Got an answer to my support requests months later. I left long time ago (to Raindrop).

You probably don’t want to buy a used mining card. There were reports about drastic performance decreases after a certain time of mining with them. I don’t find the link any more, but it was on HN as well.

I have been using Pinboard for many years and switched to Raindrop ~2 years ago. I am 90% satisfied and would definitely recommend the switch. I made my decision to leave Pinboard when it took three month for the developer to respond to a request that I submitted. It seems that they stopped taking it seriously a long time ago.

I wanted to switch from Spotify to Apple Music, for reasons why see [1]. While I enjoyed that most of the music I am listening to is available on Apple Music as well, I just could not make the switch because of the bad UX in some places and their recommendation system, which is barely existing and one of the features I enjoy most with cloud streaming services.

With Apple TV I had similar experiences - compared to Netflix, the UX was just horrible. In a way it made me feel good - if a company with so much money as Apple can fail so miserably, it is fine if I as a developer make mistakes too sometimes :)

[1] https://ra.co/news/76439

You could forward all your constructive points to the author and ask for a correction. This guide will be read by many front-end developers and designers.

The authors did not do their homework. There are active NFT marketplaces on PoS (i.e. Proof of Stake) chains that are very active right now. NFTs in general are not bad, Ethereum in it’s current form is problematic for the environment, existing PoS chains are not. Hic Et Nunc [0] is one of the NFT marketplace with large user base that runs on a PoS chain - Tezos [1]. I did not expect such a misinformed article from the Guardian.

[0] https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ [1] https://tezos.com/

This is really bad! YouTube should find ways to respond to misclaimed tracks as a creator. Also companies / individuals that claim public domain music should be banned from the platform.

I have been a Pinboard user for many years but switched to Raindrop (https://raindrop.io/) some time ago. Pinboard did not see any update in years and the developer ignored my support requests regardless of me being a yearly subscriber. There are better alternatives out there by now.

I’m not a parent, but I have some good memories of my father teaching me how to program the game «Snake» in basic as a kid (10 years old maybe). We started talking about what we want to build, and he showed me how to draw things to the screen. We then iterated and improved the game more and more (within a couple of hours). I had no prior experience with coding and very much enjoyed seeing how things progressed and how you can make the computer react to keyboard presses. While I was not able to write the game myself (or properly understand how to write simple applications) it helped me to get an idea how applications are made and a basic way of thinking. Also, for me this was really motivating and inspiring. In retrospect, I like the project-based approach—building something from start to finish in a couple of hours. If something sticks there is still enough time to go into detail and learn the basics, but learning the basics is so much easier if the motivation is high, which for me it was seeing that one can build a game oneself in a couple of hours.

Writing a first iteration fast with no code is a smart move. You can later on create a second iteration with more traditional languages and tooling like Python.

Wow, this is huge for data scientists! Now Apple is even more behind with ML after NVIDIA decided to drop macOS driver support.

Apple’s decisions in the last 5 years are causing more and more of my developer friends to move away. Bringing back the escape key on the MacBook Pro won’t change that.

If Apple were not years behind PWA integration, switching to a PWA instead of native app might be an option. But this is sadly not in Apple’s interest.

I wonder how many people will choose Android over Apple in the future because of PWAs. I can imagine there will be a flood of useful PWAs, freely to use and only fully working on Android, not Apple.

Great news! I hope more laptop models will follow.

Not very impressed with this, because:

- Rendering of files takes quite long (a couple of seconds) - Interface looks dated - Graph view is not very usable, it just shows a bunch of words. No idea how to get any meaning out of this. - Backlinks did not update in my test

Typora [0], another markdown editor is light-years ahead with the basic features – being able to edit markdown files and search through them all at once.

I appreciate the competition, tho. Good to have another option.

The price is quite high for such an editor in my opinion. More polished note-taking apps like Bear [2] or Notion [3] https://www.notion.so/ are even cheaper. They are proprietary, so not using markdown files directly, but I think it is fair to compare them anyways.

[0]: https://typora.io/ [1]: https://bear.app/ [2]: https://notion.so

I have been using Pocket [0], Instapaper [1] and Pinboard [2] over the years.

I am currently using Pocket and Pinboard in parallel: articles / websites that I want to read later are sent to Pocket (untagged), websites that I might want to get to back later are tagged and sent to Pinboard.

While my archive on Pinboard works quite well I am very disappointed by the support. Either the developer does not answer at all or months later. Not acceptable for a paid service.

While Memex looks interesting having no API makes it a pass for me (for now).

[0] https://getpocket.com/ [1] https://www.instapaper.com/ [2] https://pinboard.in/

Using Pinboard [0] I currently solve this by using tags like "via-twitter", "via-hackernews", or even people like "via-john". I also occasionally add a note to my pin (bookmark) to remind me why I bookmarked it.

[0] https://pinboard.in/

The concept is totally flawed. Having 10+ tabs open is as chaotic as it was before. Too bad, Google missed a chance to solve a problem many people seem to have. At least here on Hackernews I am reading from time to time that people have the same problem I have – tab hoarding.

So far only one third party extension helped me with this – Workona [1]. It makes it possible to switch between tab groups. The downside is that the company behind it has a complete overview of browsing behaviour and at some point they want a monthly fee (6$ / month) for the unlimited account, which I am going to pay if no better solution comes around.

I also tried Firefox tree view, but it is missing the feature to switch tab groups.

[1] https://workona.com/

I waited multiple years to upgrade from a MacBook Pro 2014, but was disappointed year after year, because I read about heating issues, the bad butterfly keyboard or the useless touch-bar.

In 2019 I felt like things are not going to get any better, so I bought a MacBook Pro 2019. Was quite unhappy that I didn’t wait a bit longer after I saw the 16inch version coming out a few months later, because it had an escape key (which I really miss on mine), but now I am kind of happy that I have the 2019 15 inch version where the heating problem does not appear.

The touch-bar really is completely useless, I find myself tapping the wrong "keys" all the time. Changing volume was so easy before, now it became really hard. But most of all I miss the escape key. If it wasn’t for macOS I had long picked a Windows laptop.

You can find more details on the issue of Electron using private macOS APIs in the following discussions:

https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/20027 https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/20965