Hacker News: far_focushttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=far_focusHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 24 May 2026 20:39:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by far_focus in "Arduino Uno R4"]]>I received an Arduino Uno starter kit from my grandfather many many years ago on my birthday; it got me started coding before I even realized I was coding. I don't even think I was a teenager? Only years later when I took my first programming course at college, did I realize :)

Glad to see the original uno hardware updated -- I distinctly remember running out of flash memory, because I copied and pasted the blinking LED code hundreds and hundreds of times. I didn't know about for or while loops !

]]>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 22:14:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320209far_focushttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320209https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320209<![CDATA[New comment by far_focus in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"]]>I cannot agree enough.

For example, in the bevy[0] discord alone, there's a remarkable about of advice, plugin recommendations, and technical help that's essentially just lost in noise.

It's a real shame; I can't help but wonder how much effort is repeated, or how much beginners needlessly struggle because they couldn't effectively find information.

[0] https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy

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