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New comment by POiNTx in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

POiNTx — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:57:21 +0000

I'm participating with my game in this Next Fest and I don't really think this is much of a problem. The amount of games presented doesn't seem significantly higher than last Next Fest. Games that are good get boosted after 2 days (first 2 days everyone gets featured randomly) so low quality AI slop won't get much of attention. And the way they check if a game is popular is wishlist count and player/install count as far as I understand. I don't think low quality slop will get much of boost, and if it does it probably is deserved unless the wishlist count/player count gets botted somehow, but I haven't really seen this happen but who knows. For most people I think it's best to wait until after the second day to see which demo's are worth checking out, there won't be much AI slop there.

New comment by POiNTx in "Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary"

POiNTx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:43:53 +0000

As a Belgian living abroad I'm waiting for the day prepare/filet americain, proper mayonaise and "broodjes" are available world wide. If people knew about it, it would be as big as sushi!

New comment by POiNTx in "Nix wrote half of my debugger"

POiNTx — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:36:34 +0000

I've been using nix before you could use AI to write ok code with it and it was a struggle knowing how to configure nix sometimes. Especially when dealing with less popular software which happens from time to time. Still stuck to it as I've felt that once it was working it was pretty amazing. But using Claude with nix is super cool. It's really good and I don't care much about the quality of my nix config at this point, it's just for me and I just want my computer to do what I want it to do and Claude can figure it out most of the time.

New comment by POiNTx in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

POiNTx — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:57:58 +0000

I've been working on a puzzle game Quilt. Hope to get the demo out this coming week or next week.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4760970/Quilt/

New comment by POiNTx in "Raylib v6.0"

POiNTx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:14:45 +0000

Can recommend Odin[0] if you want to play with Raylib. Great for prototyping, although I'm not sure if it will last further on in development. Still have to figure that one out.

[0] https://odin-lang.org/

New comment by POiNTx in "Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell"

POiNTx — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:27:17 +0000

You use UTC which doesn't adjust daylight savings.

New comment by POiNTx in "Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell"

POiNTx — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 05:20:59 +0000

I was just referring to how pipes make these kinds of chained function calls more readable. But on your point, I think using Date.now() is perfectly ok.

New comment by POiNTx in "Simplify your code: Functional core, imperative shell"

POiNTx — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:19:10 +0000

In Elixir this would be written as:

  db.getUsers()
  |> getExpiredUsers(Date.now())
  |> generateExpiryEmails()
  |> email.bulkSend()

I think Elixir hits the nail on the head when it comes to finding the right balance between functional and imperative style code.

New comment by POiNTx in "Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment"

POiNTx — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:43:20 +0000

That's a really cool concept, I'd love to see more art like this that uses modern technology. Do you have a demo available somewhere to see what the effect would look like? This is one of those things where you should just do it without asking for permission. The portals[0] art installation in some cities doesn't ask for consent either.

[0] https://www.portals.org/

New comment by POiNTx in "Why Elixir? Common misconceptions"

POiNTx — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:36:59 +0000

Something like https://github.com/mrdotb/live_react might be what you're looking for.

New comment by POiNTx in "Happy 20th Birthday, Django"

POiNTx — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:38:41 +0000

https://backpex.live/ is a pretty good Phoenix Admin. Django's admin is still unmatched though.

New comment by POiNTx in "Python in LibreOffice (LibrePythonista Extension)"

POiNTx — Sun, 25 May 2025 04:09:23 +0000

Does this allow external programs/servers to interact with a workbook (xlsx file)? Or is this just to run more complex calculations inside cell(s)?

There's UNO and there's also openpyxl to interact with workbooks from Python, but both solutions were a bit slow when testing it.

There's a lot of value in having existing workbooks which a lot of businesses already use, and extending them so they can be interacted with or queried from a server. For example to allow further access from a webapp without allowing changes to the entire workbook or hiding the full dataset.

New comment by POiNTx in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)"

POiNTx — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:50:22 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Part time | Vancouver, Canada

Availability: 20 hours or less per week

Technologies: Elixir, Phoenix, Svelte

- GitHub: https://github.com/woutdp

- LiveSvelte: https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte

- Website: https://wout.space/

- Contact: hn@wout.space

Full-stack web developer with 10+ years of professional experience. Creator of LiveSvelte, a popular library integrating Svelte with Phoenix LiveView. I'm looking for Elixir/Phoenix projects with a defined scope—preferably fixed-fee or milestone-based. Open to equity or profit-sharing arrangements for the right opportunity.

New comment by POiNTx in "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013)"

POiNTx — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:18:21 +0000

Fly.io for Elixir is very popular

New comment by POiNTx in "Serialization Is the Secret"

POiNTx — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 03:22:25 +0000

Memory is actually shared in Elixir until it's required to create new memory because of a change. So even if you have a big dictionary and something changes, part of the dictionary that remained the same will actually share memory until it's required to create new memory because of a change in that part of the dictionary.

So in effect, most immutable languages actually do copy by reference, it's just abstracted away for the programmer and you can reason about it as copy by value.

I can't find the article now but I remember reading about this and someone can probably link it.

New comment by POiNTx in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

POiNTx — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:59:43 +0000

If the wristband works well, it'd be a very convenient gadget to wear if it can integrate with a bunch of devices like smart-lights, phones, tv etc...

New comment by POiNTx in "Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn"

POiNTx — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 15:47:24 +0000

I'm generally very pro EU, but this anti-encryption stuff they try to pull these last couple of years needs to stop. If it's proven that Pavel Durov is facilitating bad actors with purpose, that's a different story, but creating a secure messaging platform by itself should not constitute a crime.

New comment by POiNTx in "Managing my motivation as a solo dev"

POiNTx — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:37:57 +0000

Customer validation is also super easy to get.

The easiest way I've found is to include a simple Google Form in the product. It's super rewarding to get feedback from users. Ask simple questions like: "What's your favorite thing about X", "What's your least favorite thing about X", "How did you learn about X" and "Anything else you wanted to let me know?". And make all the questions optional so there's a minimal amount of friction.

New comment by POiNTx in "LiveView Is Best with Svelte"

POiNTx — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:45:40 +0000

You can still use LiveView/Phoenix/Elixir, but have your game logic be in Gleam. I haven't used it though so I could be wrong here.

A little bit more about it here: https://katafrakt.me/2021/10/13/app-with-elixir-business-log...

You'd call Gleam code like this inside Elixir:

`:game.move(game, player_1, :left)`

And you'd receive an Elixir map `%Game{}` which you can then use in LiveView. If that makes sense.

New comment by POiNTx in "LiveView Is Best with Svelte"

POiNTx — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:31:23 +0000

That's true. And another downside is that once you're in the Svelte environment you can't use your Phoenix components inside those Svelte components.

I've thought about adding a library of default Svelte components which mirror the core components you get from Phoenix out of the box. But then again you lose forms and changesets etc, it's just annoying.

Where I see LiveSvelte fit is where you really need a lot of complex client side state. Sprinkle it in, but keep using phoenix components as your default, even with hooks