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New comment by Secretmapper in "Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece"

Secretmapper — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:47:14 +0000

I think the option would be great regardless. What you say is true - pen and paper is more expressive than digital notes, but digital notes is better than nothing.

I played Obra Dinn without pen and paper and I was fine.

There was a game called The Roottrees are dead which is based on Obra dinn with a built in journal system and it is really useful.

New comment by Secretmapper in "In React {Transitions} = F(state)"

Secretmapper — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:27:12 +0000

I think everything you said is 100% true. But the latter half is also true - React has (for better or worse) always been a view 'library' and has very little opinion on syncing network state/api requests.

Unfortunately, many people use inappropriate levels of abstraction (useEffect and/or redux) and it becomes an architectural problem.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool"

Secretmapper — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 03:57:21 +0000

There was a paper recently that tackled this:

https://tiger-ai-lab.github.io/TheoremExplainAgent/

New comment by Secretmapper in "The Frontend Treadmill"

Secretmapper — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:26:46 +0000

`pnpm` was released back in 2016. It's 9 years old at this point.

I think part of the problem is this thinking that

- you must change things all the time (yarn is still good why switch?)

- the things you change to are somehow really new (pnpm is 9 years old)

New comment by Secretmapper in "Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)"

Secretmapper — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:19:20 +0000

There's actually something interesting here in my opinion, which is that LLMs do not necessarily need to hinder standardization.

For example, we have standardized schooling/exams, because that's the proven scalable way we can have for children - essentially a factory spitting out different grade levels/seniority.

But LLMs can break this standardization by being able to tailor student needs in a scalable manner.

However this takes a huge amount of action, and that's going to be the pain point in the near future as we humans tend towards the easy/greedy paths.

Cultural richness - LLMs are also very bad in this regard due to the bias towards majority viewpoints. This reminds me of a recent HN thread [0] discussing how AI is hindering the adoption of new technologies. In some ways, this happens because AI tends to favor mainstream perspectives, making it biased against "new" or "fringe" viewpoints.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792

New comment by Secretmapper in "Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII"

Secretmapper — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 04:47:46 +0000

I'll take a look. This is the first time I heard of OW and I'm a pretty big Civ fan so thanks for the recommendation!

New comment by Secretmapper in "Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII"

Secretmapper — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:36:14 +0000

> I've been playing a game called Old World, which is basically Civ with decent UI and AI. The UI is intuitive and uses a nested tooltip system similar to Crusader Kings 3. The AI is pretty decent at war, it will flank you, use its strengths against your weaknesses, and will retreat to heal units that you don't finish off instead of fighting unwinnable battles.

Civ also does everything you mentioned - ie their units will flank and retreat. Is the AI markedly better than Civ?

New comment by Secretmapper in "What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust"

Secretmapper — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:49:15 +0000

In my work, we had to use a ring buffer to play audio data (we decode audio data to raw WAV and use a ring buffer for playback).

Interestingly, while the core part of the audio process is in rust (through WASM), the ring buffer itself is written in JS land (shared array buffer so that the audio context can read from it).

New comment by Secretmapper in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

Secretmapper — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:04:06 +0000

I thought it would be a hotlinkable image that updates.

New comment by Secretmapper in "AI is stifling new tech adoption?"

Secretmapper — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:11:05 +0000

> Awww, no more new JavaScript frameworks and waiting only for established technologies to cut through the noise. I don't see that as a bad thing. Technologies need to mature, and maintaining API backward compatibility is another advantage.

I think this kind of discussion is immature and downplays the point of the article.

A good example of this that I just encountered: Rust. Just asked Claude/ChatGPT for rust stuff recently, and it still gives a lot old/depreciated methods for a lot of things. This has been the case for Godot 3 vs 4 as well.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement"

Secretmapper — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:00:21 +0000

Not needing to disable SIP is a big one.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech"

Secretmapper — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:38:39 +0000

My nieces and nephews had some school announcements _only_ disseminated on facebook. I had to call the school to change their process, and even then it took a while for them to adapt.

You are severely downplaying the network effect.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech"

Secretmapper — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:36:31 +0000

This thread honestly reminds me of that skit(?) or scene from a movie(?) where a news anchor chastised a climate scientist, because the scientist 'wore clothes that were mass produced in a factory that contributes to climate change'.

I thought that scene was satire, but from this conversation thread, apparently not.

'If they were so passionate about climate change they would wear second hand clothes'

Proceeds to still see how donated clothes are still a problem because of how they're processed - so see, you are still evil and hypocritical!

New comment by Secretmapper in "JavaScript Temporal is coming"

Secretmapper — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:06:18 +0000

Javascript, for the longest time, was a _slow_ moving target - web browsers themselves had cross browser issues where API X might work on browser A but not on browser B.

There were so many bigger issues like that I think that made this not a high priority in the grand scheme of things.

I think a good example of this is jQuery - while jQuery is a good tool, a huge part of its usage was the quirks between browsers. Selectors and the class of problems jQuery solved had more immediate impact to web applications, so fixing and taking from it became a more immediate concern.

JS API -> moment/date-fn/luxon -> Temporal has the same kind of trajectory. Not that those libraries will now be immediately 'bad' mind you - just that the base API is more sane.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

Secretmapper — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 18:29:25 +0000

That's pretty cool. I guess the tough part in Asia are the languages, so there's a language barrier between say Tokyo vs Malaysia vs Singapore.

I think the hardest part sometimes of my situation is not really having any seniors/mentor figures I can bounce ideas off. The safest bets from my peer groups all involved just moving to US/Canada which I'm not really particularly interested in.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?"

Secretmapper — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:45:49 +0000

That's interesting, are you based in Asia? I've found companies similar to what you're mentioning but they're all based in America while I wanna stay in Asia.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?"

Secretmapper — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:49:07 +0000

You're right, and the thing is React/FE Frameworks doesn't even repurpose the tag. It doesn't replace or edit any native tags.

There are some _libraries_ that _create_ a tag, which is basically a 'wrapper' that adds its own set of logic, but it's a new tag.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?"

Secretmapper — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:17:07 +0000

> Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?

No.

> Basic proper usage of

,

, and
tags are nowhere to be found
If you think semantic HTML is somehow more common back in 'ye old days' when frontend frameworks didn't exist, I have a bridge to sell you.
> You have to teach React developers the difference between the and tag, and how doesn't swap nor replace your page content, it loads an entirely new page.
I suppose this is true, as poor engineers would not understand the difference in abstraction. Is it any different than someone accepting unescaped input in their SQL? Yes, the latter is a lot more destructive.
For such a scathing indictment (destroyed the web) I'd have expected there to be more meat on the article, but the two points above (and SEO/og tags) are the only thing it actually talks about.
It's a silly 'lets put down frontend development, because I want to sell you my WP agency services' post. Frontend is a clown-fiesta you could have at least actually gave it more of a put down, but the criticisms are so transparently thin its somehow less meaty than the site's nonexistent portfolio.

New comment by Secretmapper in "Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch"

Secretmapper — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:18:51 +0000

Keyboard Video and Mouse

New comment by Secretmapper in "Infinite Craft"

Secretmapper — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:54:58 +0000

There's some work on this on the web space - our company is doing something not too dissimilar using the still experimental API called WebCodecs.
And that pretty much says everything unfortunately - it's still an experimental API with limited availability.
You can do some parts of this using Canvas[0] but there's lots of caveats.
[0] https://github.com/bwasti/mebm/tree/main