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New comment by arduinomancer in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

arduinomancer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:42:50 +0000

I mean the Handmade hero game

New comment by arduinomancer in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

arduinomancer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:30:52 +0000

Did Casey ever finish the video series?

New comment by arduinomancer in "No Graphics API"

arduinomancer — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:51:16 +0000

To be honest there isn't really one, a lot of these concepts are advanced even for graphics programmers

New comment by arduinomancer in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

arduinomancer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:46:33 +0000

You don't have to use the same solution for work and personal notes

New comment by arduinomancer in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

arduinomancer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:35:10 +0000

What I realized at least for me is that work notes and personal notes are two different use cases

The .txt file approach works for work stuff because I never need to reference it on mobile, if I'm doing software development I need to be on a computer anyway.

Whereas personal stuff I need an actual notetaking app like Notion for the mobile usability

New comment by arduinomancer in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

arduinomancer — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:55:11 +0000

I've done the same thing for a long time

The only extra thing is I set up autohotkey macros

For example typing $today or $yesterday will insert the date with a dividing line underneath to separate days into clear blocks

I've tried a lot of different note apps and what I eventually realized is that when it comes to work, I generally don't actually care about old notes 98% of the time.

I only really care about the last week or two and when everything is in one file its optimized for viewing that, like a working memory.

The text file ends up gigantic but its still small data for a computer even after many years of adding to a single file and searching is still fast.

New comment by arduinomancer in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

arduinomancer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:58:17 +0000

Every time I see an article like this I ask the same question: show me the money?

If it’s so good why hasn’t it made you rich?

New comment by arduinomancer in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

arduinomancer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:57:03 +0000

Not everyone is building web apps/web services

The more niche the thing you’re working on the worse results I’ve found these tools to give

New comment by arduinomancer in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

arduinomancer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:54:20 +0000

These articles act like creating new demo apps or isolated tools is what software development is all about

Ask HN: Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA?

arduinomancer — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:29:39 +0000

Is the “hardware” of the brain fixed?

Or can the “software” cause changes in the hardware?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46183843

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by arduinomancer in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

arduinomancer — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:48:07 +0000

Have you considered the idea that it is just exaggerating to make a point and isn’t meant to be taken literally?

Exaggeration is a common technique employed in human language for emphasis.

New comment by arduinomancer in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

arduinomancer — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:45:35 +0000

Exactly, the whole process is a business itself

New comment by arduinomancer in "Steam Frame"

arduinomancer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:58:01 +0000

I’ve never seen that in my entire life

New comment by arduinomancer in "Steam Frame"

arduinomancer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:56:36 +0000

It’s not foveated rendering, it’s foveated streaming

New comment by arduinomancer in "Steam Frame"

arduinomancer — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:55:19 +0000

To be fair its obviously not meant for professional work

Valve is a game company

New comment by arduinomancer in "Macro Splats 2025"

arduinomancer — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:08:03 +0000

Educational visualization seems like a really good use case for GS

New comment by arduinomancer in "Ask HN: What Is Your Hobby?"

arduinomancer — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:24:37 +0000

Ripping through single track forest trails on 2-stroke dirt bikes

I joke that it’s the most opposite activity from programming

Ask HN: What about the "annoyance cost" of using LLMs for coding?

arduinomancer — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:59:02 +0000

Does anyone else find that LLM code generators improve your overall productivity marginally but you prefer not to use them due to what I call the “annoyance cost”

Basically the extra cognitive annoyance you have to experience every time it generates the wrong thing

It’s like you can achieve the end result faster but it’s more mentally draining and annoying to keep tweaking the LLM than to just write it yourself

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45134311

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by arduinomancer in "Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?"

arduinomancer — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:19:49 +0000

Yeah for me figuring out _what_ to build and estimating it are the biggest problems day to day

New comment by arduinomancer in "Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?"

arduinomancer — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:06:49 +0000

I’ve found that as well

It’s a good idea to take some time to understand how the official language docs are organized so that you can just jump there straight away and bypass all the noise