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New comment by 90s_dev in "Requesting Funding for 90s.dev"

90s_dev — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 03:42:15 +0000

I'm aware that many people will not be happy even Hell really does exist and I go there for eternity. Many people have expressed this sentiment in the most gory terms. Those people will never be happy, and I think that's fair. I'll pray for them though that they can have a change of heart, so they can have a chance at happiness.

New comment by 90s_dev in "Requesting Funding for 90s.dev"

90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:13:35 +0000

With regards to the law, yes. I have to pay $100 every year and tell the government all my information.

Society is not the government. Society has the opportunity to let me back in.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:12:40 +0000

And it's falling back off. Expected. Thanks anyway everyone for trying. Thanks mods for letting it try.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:00:29 +0000

He had a great time in school, was very popular and had lots of friends. I know what led to his violent behavior. It didn't come from imitating me. I filed with the courts to protect him from someone, and the judge agreed with me that it was alarming what he was experiencing from others. But I failed to use the courts to protect him before it was too late. I tried and I failed. That's all I can say.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:56:40 +0000

From one perspective, you could say that I had a mental illness caused by a combination of issues from my childhood that caused me to have a serious problem with exhibitionism from 5 until 30 years old.

From another perspective, I was just a morally evil person for all of that time.

I think both are correct. It's more complicated. I have my own thoughts on what caused everything to happen the way it did and why I was the way I was. But what I can say is that I'm no longer that person. But that doesn't matter to most people.

Part of my just punishment is that my reputation is forever ruined. That's why I adopted this handle, 90s-dev. My plan was to use this to make money anonymously. But then at the last second I had the idea to go public and hope for a public redemption, partly because I needed money and knew that the product wouldn't sell and was running out of savings, and partly because I strongly felt like I was being deceitful, which is an awful feeling. So I revealed my identity in my Show HN post.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:50:49 +0000

I suppose this is the same thing, just, using GitHub Sponsors, no? Are there significant differences?

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:49:13 +0000

I don't mind not getting full time payment. That's not the goal of this. The goal is to try an experimental method of funding open source projects, something we have all been thinking about for a while. This is just one variation. If it doesn't pan out to full time employment, then fine, that's expected. I'd be surprised if it did.

[Edit to clarify] I'm not trying to pressure or guilt anyone into donating for personal reasons. My only goal in this post is to propose a way to experiment with open source funding. Other details are just me answering unrelated questions.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:47:01 +0000

I don't know how long it takes each person to heal. But I know healing is possible.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:46:19 +0000

That is not a black and white situation, and I received only 10 days in jail because of the circumstances, despite the prosecutor asking for the full 365 days. The statues of Illinois do not permit any evidence prior to the day of the incidents to be presented. I could not provide the jury any evidence that my son was becoming a very real danger who I had to protect myself and my other children from for at least a month beforehand. I am not and have never been a violent person, so he didn't get that from me. I could not present to the jury that I had called 911 on him several times, that he threw sharp objects at me, that I did everything I could do disarm him with as least physical force. I did not know about crisis hotline and the police never told me about it or suggested it, they simply said I'd have to figure something out. All I could present to the jury was his own testimony, under oath, that he had in fact harmed me and caused me physical harm. I used as little force as necessary to restrain him from another episode of dangerous behavior. I'm not sure what I could or should have done differently. And anyone commenting this or that solution, I would just say, I agree violence is rarely the answer, but I'm not sure what you would have done differently either. He has since been arrested at least once for similar violent behavior, so I am vindicated at least somewhat, because he didn't learn that from me, and I tried everything I could to prevent and stop it for the month before my arrest, and I haven't seen him since the arrest 4 years ago. And I was never violent. He didn't learn it from me. In order to protect another person's reputation, I will not say where I think he learned it.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:30:28 +0000

Have I not paid my price by going to jail? By being homeless and sleeping in my car in the cold of winter? By having people show up at my door in January trying to cause physical violence to me? Are you the same person you were 9 years ago? Would you rather my children not have food and shelter because of mistakes I made 9 years ago and paid for in abundance? Should I put up a gofundme so that they can have their needs met? I'd rather work to earn that money. But nobody will employ me. So this is all I can do. Do you have a better idea? If your best answer is "oh well, you committed an atrocity, therefore your children should suffer," then fine, that's on you. But I won't settle for that. I will do everything I can to provide for them.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:26:34 +0000

That's very odd. Not sure what os/browser you're using, but I'm using standard HTMLCanvas stuff to draw them. Could you file an issue in the repo with that info? Thanks!

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:11:51 +0000

Oh sorry, I kind of skipped over introducing what the project is, mainly because when I wrote this, the intended audience was the people who showed support on the previous Show HN thread. But here's a better explanation of the project's purpose, the one I posted via Show HN two months ago: https://90s.dev/blog/finally-releasing-90s-dev.html

I do agree that this is a new way of using GitHub Sponsors. And I do agree that it might entirely not work out the way I'm thinking. But to my knowledge, this way of using GH Sponsors hasn't been tried before, so it's worth at least trying it once I think. Besides, there was significant interest in this project, which is what made me think of trying this at all, otherwise I would not have. Thanks for the feedback.

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:08:18 +0000

Thanks, that's actually my screensaver project Bubbles[1] which I created to mimic as much as possible the Windows 95 bubbles screensaver. It's a one-line include for any website, which is why I put it in this one. Maybe it'll catch on!

[1] https://github.com/sdegutis/bubbles/

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90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 18:58:25 +0000

Short version: I want to work on 90s.dev, but have no time to. I could do it for $25/hour, using GitHub Sponsors as a way for everyone to chip in a little towards its development. Just an idea.

The vision of 90s.dev is to be a retro os environment entirely in the web, that's suitable for making all the apps you'd need to make a game, from code editors to sprite editors to animation tools to debuggers. And it's decentralized too, so the apps don't have to be built in, you can import them from anywhere on the web, as long as the app speaks the 90s.dev API. This would recreate a retro development environment similar to what many of us grew up with in the 90s.

Requesting Funding for 90s.dev

90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:40:05 +0000

Article URL: https://90s.dev/blog/requesting-funding-for-90s-dev.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711940

Points: 86

# Comments: 49

Show HN: The Hand Rolled Assembly Machine

90s_dev — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:44:15 +0000

Article URL: https://hram.dev/indexb.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44707031

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 90s_dev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

90s_dev — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:46:46 +0000

And no upvotes bring my comment up further. My account is permanently punished.

New comment by 90s_dev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

90s_dev — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:42:54 +0000

Wow, as soon as I post, my comment is second to the bottom.

New comment by 90s_dev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

90s_dev — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:42:29 +0000

90s.dev.

Well, kind of.

I've been working a ton on some variations and ports of it over the last couple months, but the problem is that I need funding.

So my plan is to setup github sponsors, where for each project people want me to work on, they can donate any amount, and for each $25, I'll work one hour on that project. It'll have a few related projects that all come from a unified vision I have for 90s.dev -- to be a full platform that recreates 90s-era development, from dos and qbasic, to win3 and vb3, not to mention assemblers for those who want it (see my show-hn about hram.dev).

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90s_dev — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:12:00 +0000

The reason I started hram.dev was so I could have a native platform to port 90s.dev to. I love the idea of having native host for retro GUIs. But I am not a huge fan of html/css/js combo. It feels tacked on because it is. I came up with a relatively novel and I think truly innovative GUI methodology in 90s.dev that I did not know how to explain so I haven't truly shared with people how exciting it potentially is. Tomorrow I plan to put up a github-sponsors link with a few different projects, where for each $50 that I receive for a given project, I will work two hours on that project. This way the community can help sponsor me turning these things into realities.