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New comment by bottlero_cket in "Voxatron"

bottlero_cket — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:40:03 +0000

I’m a huge fan of lexaloffle. And while I’m more of a 2D guy, I have used voxatron in the past. It’s a great editor, it runs on almost any hardware requirements, and is versatile enough that you can program anything you want with it. Besides lua, you can also program in a no-code paradigm that I found incredibly clever. Your games can be quite lengthy and feature-full, and you build them easily for web.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

bottlero_cket — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:47:21 +0000

* It dramatically improves the speed and context your agents need when working on serious projects: 50% fewer VCS-related tokens and 90% faster per operation.

Sounds like a good optimization to me. VCS is a waste of tokens for sure. I’m intrigued to hear more.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Fifty problems with standard web APIs in 2025"

bottlero_cket — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 13:54:23 +0000

This article is an absolute treasure trove of real problems I too have encountered on my own journey of creating an html game, and excellent solutions that I was completely unable to find on my own! I give real props for the depth of this analysis.

I would like to re-emphasize the author’s point that the mobile web begins to struggle with anything beyond a Wikipedia page about raccoons. I feel this point was understated!

Consider realtor.com (and many others) where zooming in a picture causes everything but the picture to zoom! Insane when you consider how much houses cost. What about on shopify—type websites, where everything scrolls left when you try to swipe left to activate the carousel of pictures. How often I wish they would design these sites as they would a Wikipedia article on raccoons — as bare bones as they can get!

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Neopets.com changed my life (2019)"

bottlero_cket — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:27:30 +0000

There must still be a use case for this in the modern web. TikTok with custom HTML perhaps…

New comment by bottlero_cket in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

bottlero_cket — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:15:43 +0000

Lesson learned, just avoid the hard bugs, I don’t think that is feasible for most of us!

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step"

bottlero_cket — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:22:47 +0000

I always wonder if anyone deploys this stuff to prod…

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

bottlero_cket — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:16:56 +0000

An eBook sever on raspberry pi running nodejs. I had a lot of issues with iCloud not being able to download my books, plus my entire library is almost 1 GB. So, my solution is to serve a list of PDFs over node and allow download of a specific page range.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Moving fast with the core Vim motions"

bottlero_cket — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:26:48 +0000

Indent? Use a code formatter or just select the lines with visual mode and press >

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Moving fast with the core Vim motions"

bottlero_cket — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 02:05:01 +0000

f I use second most. It has so many uses all of which could be done with / command, but definitely you come to prefer f. I use f( to scan forward to the next open paren. Then I use di( to delete in parens for example to remove the arguments. Uppercase F does the same but backward up the text. Often I use f, to go to a comma. df, to delete up to the next comma as in removing just 1 argument. The only draw back is that f does not have any repeat shortcut like n for next or . for reapply, those do nothing for f. I should mention also that f works on a single line at a time unlike /

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device"

bottlero_cket — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:25:53 +0000

> Nobody has the data

https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plum...

“But the main reason plumbers are well paid is because they know the arcane secrets of plumbing fittings.”

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device"

bottlero_cket — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 02:38:30 +0000

Cameras are quickly becoming as ubiquitous and boring as light bulbs. I’m actually more interested in how a light bulb works than some of these projects that are targeted at software developers for learning purposes.

There are tons of these dev hardware projects you can buy which usually are centered around having a camera. “Did you ever want to see in slow motion? Now you can.” “Never miss a moment.” Go ahead a miss the moment. Big foot is fake. There is not much point to this anymore.

I see a lot of projects that hunt out developers as customers, but I can’t get excited for them most of the time. I think Playdate is one of the highest quality of this type of product. Behind that is some of the holographic 3D displays they are making now that use 3D pixels. They can go for $200. Pretty cheap.

Augmented reality is very lame to me. I think most of the hope for useful AR applications has been snuffed out long ago. Its the same question asked a different way, “Why can’t you just google the answer? Why do you need to do x,y,z (go to college, call plumber, whatever)” The answer is, invariably, nobody has the data! A lot of good data is being held hostage or destroyed by greedy corporations. Its a winner take all world. Companies are reluctant to have a brand new game.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Programming as Play"

bottlero_cket — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:16:48 +0000

You can do all of that already from immediate mode in both pico 8 and tic 80.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension"

bottlero_cket — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:25:56 +0000

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1435827240286109702?s=46...

there’s a good example of 25 seconds of constant bombardment for InfoWorld visitors. I cant count the popups.

New comment by bottlero_cket in "Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers"

bottlero_cket — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:36:00 +0000

Xah has written a lot of great informative and opinion content on his blog. There is like a decade of posts covering a large span of topics like math, emacs, web dev, etc.

This is just one post I bookmarked, but you can link dive wikipedia-style.

http://xahlee.info/kbd/keyboard_hardware_and_key_choices.htm...

New comment by bottlero_cket in "I would happily ditch the selfie camera for a full-screen phone"

bottlero_cket — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 18:29:37 +0000

Yeah “the notch” has been around for a long time now. Anyway, the notch is very functional and very useful. Without it, you can only handle the phone by its sides. With it, you can easily pass the phone by placing your thumb on the notch. A full screen phone would be very cumbersome especially with how big phones are nowadays.