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New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: Skymap – a 3D galaxy catalog explorer in the browser via WebGPU"

inflam52 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:06:55 +0000

Works well for me. I'm on desktop (Macbook Air M3) but have a decent amount of RAM

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: Skymap – a 3D galaxy catalog explorer in the browser via WebGPU"

inflam52 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Very cool! The magnitude of how tiny we actually are...

Show HN: A bookmarklet app that saves bookmarks to GitHub Gist

inflam52 — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:21:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chrisdiana/gistkeep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48036628

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: A private-ish bookmark app that uses GitHub Gist as its back end"

inflam52 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:48:04 +0000

Yes exactly! I did this kind of thing too for a little while. I ended up using the Gist to access the bookmarks but figured it would be nice to have an optional viewer to search/sort. Also having it across all devices is a big plus. One of the features I miss now that Pocket used to offer with their bookmarklet.

Show HN: A private-ish bookmark app that uses GitHub Gist as its back end

inflam52 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:04:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chrisdiana/gistkeep

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947813

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by inflam52 in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

inflam52 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:18:59 +0000

Thumby has a 3x5 but I do like this 5x5 better

https://thumby.us/API/Text-and-Font/

New comment by inflam52 in "Your File System Is Already A Graph Database"

inflam52 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:08:31 +0000

One of the benefits of graph databases is that you can measure strengths of connections and also infer connections that don’t actually exist (edge prediction) among many other path traversal techniques. It’s not always just about the connection itself. Many have these algorithms built in so you don’t have to reinvent it.

New comment by inflam52 in "Art of Roads in Games"

inflam52 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 03:56:39 +0000

Timely article for me! I just went through this in my little SimCity remake for MicroPython:

https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity/blob/6c3a7337788655b5...

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox"

inflam52 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:22:03 +0000

Very cool! We need to get this on M5Stack Cardputer ASAP

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:27:03 +0000

Following up here, I just added a game interface abstraction to make it easier to support more devices. Planning on getting a few MakeCode-compatible devices to adapt for them.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:18:13 +0000

definitely agree

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:51:11 +0000

This is cool thanks for sharing! I'm definitely be digging into these. It would be neat to support some of these devices too. I didn't know about MaplePad (+1 to Dreamcast VMU projects!)

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:23:57 +0000

This is for 72×40 display right now but I was also working on an interface layer to abstract Thumby specific functionality in order to play on potentially other platforms running MicroPython/Python. Going to try and add that in the next iteration.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:59:29 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:45:53 +0000

Thanks I'll post when it's available. Still waiting on the PR to merge in their Arcade repo.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:35:14 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:17:10 +0000

Congrats! Unplayable by most means but absolutely incredible how tiny it is so I love it.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:58:29 +0000

Yeah great catch. So I mentioned this in the README but much of the mechanics were heavily inspired by jhhoward's MicroCity. This is the same way he calculated taxes and I figured to test it out to see how it worked in game. I really liked the flow of how his game played and seems like there are some pros/cons to that inbalance.

Pros: - Makes residential population more valuable for taxes, which helps early‑game cash flow. - Encourages zoning residential since it has outsized budget impact. - Offsets the fact that residential growth can be more constrained by pollution/unemployment.

Cons: - Skews the economy away from industrial/commercial impact. - Makes budget feel inconsistent with “total population.” - Can mask balance issues by injecting extra money, making difficulty tuning harder.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:39:47 +0000

Haha thanks! Definitely adding that during map generation in next release.

New comment by inflam52 in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

inflam52 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:33:10 +0000

I originally had sim but HN autocorrected it. I tried to edit it back to what I had but can't seem to now.