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wsc981on How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

I'm a bit of an old-timer now (almost 45), but I enjoy a lot of the classics on GOG. And at a price that can't be beat. Totally no interest in playing modern games.

wsc981on Git rebase -i is not that scary

In case of many commits with also many complex merge conflicts, I often find it easier to just:

1. Abort rebase.

2. Squash all my commits into a single commit.

3. Rebase on target branch again.

wsc981on Run large language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

Seems a bit like GNUS [0].

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[0]: https://www.gnus.ai/

wsc981on An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop

I read on Twitter this week that someone made such an interface on top of GIMP.

https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp

wsc981on Making Graphics Like it's 1993

Unreal actually also has a female protagonist.

https://unrealarchive.org/wikis/the-liandri-archives/Prisone...

wsc981on Ask HN: What's good for VR these days, free and paid

You could hobby with LÖVR: https://github.com/archibald-carrion/LOVR-VR-game-design

wsc981on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

No, for a long time I never clicked. But since I keep seeing the freaking ads, I decided to click on them, because from what I understand they have to pay money for each ad click.

wsc981on DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode

> The AI product rollouts in the last two years have been some of the most aggressive and user hostile product rollouts in my entire life.

I’m getting extremely annoyed by the Base44 ads I see on YouTube every other video.

First I pressed skip all the time, but the ads keep popping up. So now, every time I see it, I click on the ad and then immediately close the site. At least I can make their aggressive ad strategy a bit more expensive.

wsc981on Your hex editor should color-code bytes

There's apps that can simulate color blindness, which can be used for testing purposes.

This is such an app for iOS / macOS: https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/

wsc981on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?

Seems in Libanon the IDF is currently targeting hospitals and first responders [0]. Sometimes people are just evil.

Regarding the USA-Iran war, the president of the USA has threatened to destroy essential infrastructure (e.g. electricity) if Iran doesn't surrender in 48 hours. Which, from my understanding, is a war crime. I think Trump is perfectly ok with bombing schools and hospitals.

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[0]: https://x.com/haaretzcom/status/2035545687006298392?s=20

wsc981on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed

At least AI seems very useful to quickly write unit tests for the stuff I work with these days, like Angular & C#.

P.S.: I loved Glider and Glypha, great games!

wsc981on Vietnam bans unskippable ads

On iOS I have seen ads with very small close buttons, so clearly intended to cause people to miss-click. Buttons should be 44x44 pixels, it’s recommended in the human interface guidelines [0].

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[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

wsc981on Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame

Another one would be Bastion - code is even open source [0].

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[0]: https://www.supergiantgames.com/blog/bastions-open-source-br...

wsc981on T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types

In the context of Lua, I’ve taken a liking to LuaLS (Lua Language Server). You can just write your Lua scripts with annotations (where needed) and the language server can help auto-complete and verify type usage. No compilation step needed.

I never tried “typed Lua” variants (such as MoonScript IIRC), but I believe those do require a compilation step.

wsc981on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

Luckily I haven't had any emergencies. But in Thailand recently there's been flooding in the south, many people stuck. And in eastern part many people have been evacuated due to border tensions with Cambodia.

I live in the north-west Thailand, close to the border with Myanmar. An area known as the Golden Triangle [0].

About once a month or so we don't have electricity for a about 10-12 hours or so.

I also experienced a quite big earthquake here about a year ago.

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_(Southeast_Asi...

wsc981on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150

I'm just a Dutch guy that emigrated to Thailand, but I'd never trade my Toyota Hilux diesel for an electric truck. I don't want to have to rely on electric to be able to drive my car. A hybrid could be ok though.

The nice thing about diesel, in case of emergency is you can have a couple of filled jerrycans around so you can always move if needed. I like the reliability, it feels more anti-fragile, if that makes sense.

I wonder if the Gibraltar company that produces Toyota trucks for UN [0] is going fully electric anytime soon, if ever.

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[0]: https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-t...

wsc981on Switching from Synchronous to Asynchronous Mode of Coding

Is this style of coding possible using VS Code and free Copilot?

wsc981on Game design is simple

I loved World of Warcraft for many years, but kind of stopped playing during Cataclysm.

And it's kind of weird, but I preferred the old-style questing (many repeated quests and perhaps less streamlined experience) compared to what came afterwards.

In Cataclysm they tried to improve the quest experience, add more variety, but somehow the game lost a bit of its magic - at least from my point of view.

wsc981on Result is all I need

I'm also not a fan. Due to your point regarding code branches, but also because I just don't find the code very readable.

I think Result<T> has its use, but I don't think this is a particular great example.

wsc981on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI

Basically the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

wsc981on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill

I haven't checked the Guardian in dept, but I believe they towed the same messaging during COVID as any other major Western publication and the same regarding the Russia / Ukraine situation right now.

Alternative voices are to be found on tight corners of the internet, like an individual on Twitter for example.

wsc981on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

You can setup a private VPN with Digital Ocean and a PiHole droplet. I guess it's a little bit less likely to be a honeypot. It also seems cheaper than any public VPN offering.

wsc981on Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers

Of course a digital id doesn’t prevent illegal immigration.

Proper border checks prevent illegal immigration.

The digital ids are introduced for other reasons - this is something Tony Blair has been pushing for a long time.

wsc981on Configuration files are user interfaces

Just something like an INI file might be fine for most use-cases as well and is easier to reason about.

wsc981on macOS Tahoe

I don't think you can expect any major UI changes in Tahoe at this point. Maybe the next version of macOS will return to its desktop roots a bit more.

wsc981on Chat Control Must Be Stopped

> ... The 'Unofficial' boss of European Union is Germany. ...

I disagree with this sentence. The unofficial bosses are both Germany and France. Which is also the reason why the people in the richer EU countries will suffer economically when the upcoming bailout for France /will/ happen.

wsc981on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

Yeah, my experience with LÖVR [0] and LLM (ChatGPT) has been quite horrible. Since it's very niche and quite recently quite a big API change has happened, which I guess the model wasn't trained on. So it's kind of useless for that purpose.

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[0]: https://lovr.org

wsc981on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

Thanks for the explanation regarding Mavericks issues with third-party VPN software.

wsc981on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

I noticed the app section included VPN.

Recently I've been looking for some VPN solution and found that many are quite expensive, though often you get a decent enough discount if you subscribe for like a year or longer. Also, I believe many services are probably not trustworthy (regardless of their claims).

A very affordable alternative is a DigitalOcean droplet with PiHole. You can connect with this VPN with Wireguard, which will probably work just fine on Mavericks. Been using this now for a couple of months and no issues. My costs are probably around 3-4 USD per month, but I don't use VPN all the time.