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New comment by impatient_bacon in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

impatient_bacon — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:53:23 +0000

That's really neat! It's interesting the ways play interacts with how we learn about the world. Sometimes the best learning is the most fun!

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

impatient_bacon — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:18:14 +0000

Oof yea I just got surprised by this at a vet appointment for my dog, weirded me out. I just went along with it to get the visit over with and I can see the benefit of having an accurate record of the visit, but we'll have to come to terms to the reality of this invasive surveillance as a society at some point I imagine.

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine"

impatient_bacon — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:00:29 +0000

https://bitmelo.com/

Bitmelo: A JavaScript pixel game editor that works in the browser

impatient_bacon — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:23:51 +0000

Article URL: https://bitmelo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499170

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?"

impatient_bacon — Mon, 04 May 2020 01:14:01 +0000

I made a bunch of mobile games with Unity that worked as a porfolio for Unity Development jobs. I had been wanting to transition into more traditional software development, and I was fortunate enough to be able to learn a front end stack at my previous job. I made this project over nights and weekends, and it was a significant factor in me getting my current job doing react development:

https://bitmelo.com

My best advice would be to try to make projects that are undeniably good. So good a company would be dumb not to hire you. Def easier said then done though.

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Ask HN: No formal software education – is there hope for me?"

impatient_bacon — Sun, 03 May 2020 22:10:39 +0000

It's absolutely possible. I have an art degree and what I have found to be important is to have some impressive personal projects to show employers. Maybe not all of them will look at your portfolio but enough do that you should be able to get a job if it's good.

Falling in love with programming has been very fortunate for me because it is one of the few professions where you can show your skills with a portfolio instead of a piece of paper, and it pays pretty well

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

impatient_bacon — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:52:02 +0000

I'm working on Bitmelo. It's a free game editor that works right in your browser:

https://bitmelo.com

New comment by impatient_bacon in "NPM Is Joining GitHub"

impatient_bacon — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:24:01 +0000

Safari.

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Show HN: Bitmelo – A free tool that lets you build 8-bit games with JavaScript"

impatient_bacon — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:19:46 +0000

Hey y'all I just launched Bitmelo, game editor to build pixel art games with Javascript. You can code, draw tiles and tilemaps, design sound effects, view the documentation, and playtest your game, all without having to break focus by switching applications.

It works in your browser, but there's also a windows version available: https://davidbyers.itch.io/bitmelo

I built it in react, and you can check out the source code here: https://github.com/byersdz/bitmelo-editor

Bitmelo was born from my desire to have the most friction free game development experience possible. It's heavily inspired by fantasy consoles such as Pico 8 and Tic 80, however while I love the simple nature of their API's I wanted to have a development experience that wasn't constrained by the same limitations as the games you make in them.

Show HN: Bitmelo – A free tool that lets you build 8-bit games with JavaScript

impatient_bacon — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://bitmelo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20866203

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Show HN: Bitmelo – An editor for pixel art games that works in your browser"

impatient_bacon — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:46:45 +0000

Developer Here!

Bitmelo is a game editor and engine for making small pixel art games. You can code, draw tiles and tilemaps, design sound effects, view the documentation, and playtest your game, all without having to break focus by switching applications.

Show HN: Bitmelo – An editor for pixel art games that works in your browser

impatient_bacon — Thu, 29 Aug 2019 13:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://bitmelo.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20829405

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?"

impatient_bacon — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 19:27:33 +0000

Parents can buy whatever they want for their kids, I said nothing about banning consumption. Milk would be fine, however most juices and chocolate milk are pretty bad for you.

New comment by impatient_bacon in "Is it time to treat sugar like smoking?"

impatient_bacon — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 18:39:01 +0000

God I hope so. I grew up obese and am now about halfway through undoing the damage using a ketogenic diet. I really do think sugar sweetened drinks should be banned for sale to children under 18, as that causes the most damage.