Hacker News: Vekz

A fast, low-latency, open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit

Vekz — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 03:09:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor/updates/our-campaign-is-live

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793928

Points: 3

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New comment by Vekz in "Mikeal Rogers has died"

Vekz — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:28:19 +0000

Very sad. I had met Mikeal a few times in the nearly Node community hackathons and meetups. He had been in my orbit of Node.js and Oakland communities for decades but we were never close. Always felt like ships in the night. I had been following his cancer diaries hoping for the best. There truly was a magic to that early Node.js hacker house days and Mikeal was a huge driving force for that.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

Vekz — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 05:52:56 +0000

Bryan, thanks for publishing, this is great work. I'm curious if this this build could fit and swap a 13.3 E-ink screen with display board. Some open source hardware synergy with https://github.com/Modos-Labs/Glider/tree/main

New comment by Vekz in "EmacsConf 2024 Notes"

Vekz — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:19:17 +0000

I was really impressed with the online presentation of EmacsConf 2024. Everything captured and published in org-mode: Transcripts, Comments, QA, Video links. Was really nice to peruse.

New comment by Vekz in "Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad"

Vekz — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:22:07 +0000

Deeply nested inline anonymous function callbacks are the anti pattern. Decoupled explicit named functions passed as callbacks are a significantly better developer experience and provide clearer stack traces. I never understood why this conversation didn't take the lexicon and instead the imo inferior `async` pattern got pushed hard.

New comment by Vekz in "Core: an experimental new way to write videogames"

Vekz — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:00:59 +0000

High performance real-time games it is questionable. Any genre that is more static turn based can be a great boon.

Tech Breakdown: Third Person Cameras in Games

Vekz — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 15:43:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/cameras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37283739

Points: 1

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New comment by Vekz in "Chiptune.app"

Vekz — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:48:25 +0000

very cool I like the UI. Wish it had the catalog from keygenjukebox do net though.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:30:30 +0000

> Where did the motivation come from?

I host a bay area indie gamedev coworking group. The coworking group's regular recurring meetup interval kept me in a peer pressure and positive feedback loop. I also felt the need in the market had not been addressed until this new wave of engines started appearing.

> I’m impressed that you can remember the obstacles you overcame several years ago.

I kept a daily journal in org-mode and separate dev log file. Can search through this and my commit history for lots of info.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:25:23 +0000

The dependent work to setup a signaling server and ICE/STUN/TURN NAT punch through is a big barrier to using WebRTC.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 01:25:33 +0000

Thanks for reading and sharing your work!

I host an indie gamedev coworking group in the bay area and on discord that you might find interesting. Will DM you.

> How did this one go? I ended up literally doing a `ln` for shared frontend/backend files.

Very easy with module imports. Same scene graph and entity component system shared between client and server.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:34 +0000

Thank you. Great idea.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:54:11 +0000

Too Real.

New comment by Vekz in "Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine"

Vekz — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 22:54:00 +0000

Thanks!

Show HN: I built a multiplayer voxel browser game engine

Vekz — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:00:40 +0000

Article URL: https://kevzettler.com/2023/04/25/multiplayer-voxel-game-engine/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705063

Points: 236

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A game engine agnostic third person camera math implementation

Vekz — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://radcade.com/game-engine-agnostic-third-person-camera/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526077

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Unity Multiplayer Netcode for GameObjects Review

Vekz — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://radcade.com/unity-multiplayer-netcode-for-gameobjects/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35469279

Points: 1

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Content spoiler sensitivity for indie game devs

Vekz — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:17:05 +0000

Article URL: https://radcade.com/indie-spoilers-and-surprises/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35082889

Points: 1

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New comment by Vekz in "Lisp-powered laptop with a battery life measured in years"

Vekz — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:28:04 +0000

The team at Modos https://www.modos.tech/blog/get-involved-with-modos is building an open source Eink laptop

Consider player freedom in game design

Vekz — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 16:11:46 +0000

Article URL: https://radcade.com/game-design-player-freedom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34970900

Points: 4

# Comments: 1