Hacker News: mcdirty

New comment by mcdirty in "Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix"

mcdirty — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:45:29 +0000

Is the site down?

New comment by mcdirty in "Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix"

mcdirty — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:30:40 +0000

This is great. I had to back out of a phoenix project and rewrite it in Django because I couldn't get good AI assistance. I'm pretty inexperienced with Elixir and Phoenix but understand the benefits enough to want to make projects in it. So this is really cool.

New comment by mcdirty in "Plain – a web framework for building products with Python"

mcdirty — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 04:32:36 +0000

Tbh why should I use this over Django? Less docs and knowledge around it. Less maintainers. Idk seems like a business risk to invest real time in it for me

Show HN: Cozy Quest – MMO networking architecture

mcdirty — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:44:30 +0000

I'm building a cozy multiplayer game engine (very early stages - just a few days in!) combining Elixir, Go, and Godot to achieve sub-50ms latency while maintaining a warm, welcoming feel. My architecture uses Elixir/Phoenix for fault-tolerant session management, Go for high-performance game state sync (1ms tick rate), and Godot for client-side prediction. I've implemented lock-free data structures, SIMD-optimized physics, and binary protocols with delta compression. Quick note: the website/login aren't functional yet - this is a work in progress! Here's my technical deep-dive into the challenges and solutions so far.

If you feel so inclined follow the devlog for updates as I build this out in public.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497442

Points: 7

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New comment by mcdirty in "What's the case for naturally mined diamonds anymore?"

mcdirty — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:38:12 +0000

Thank you. So many pay wall links these days.

New comment by mcdirty in "Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor"

mcdirty — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 02:47:08 +0000

Currently incompatible from the main repo for blender 3.x, there are forks but YMMV.

New comment by mcdirty in "Blockbench – A low-poly 3D model editor"

mcdirty — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 02:46:15 +0000

I had high hopes for Sprytile, but it seems to have not kept up with the 3.x transition. https://jeiel.itch.io/sprytile

New comment by mcdirty in "Ask HN: Where to meet people who are interested in building a company together?"

mcdirty — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 04:24:58 +0000

Idk, I've been dumb enough to do this twice now.

New comment by mcdirty in "I built an open-source, AI-powered solar panel that's 95% optimal"

mcdirty — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 22:59:36 +0000

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL9PcGu_xrA&t=174s

New comment by mcdirty in "AI training method exceeds GPT-3 performance with fewer parameters"

mcdirty — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:51:55 +0000

I just wish I had the vocabulary to truly appreciate what's going on here.

New comment by mcdirty in "CRDTs are the future"

mcdirty — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:07:47 +0000

I literally closed the article after reading the first blurb, because it wasn't explained. Just started googling.

New comment by mcdirty in "CDC declares a federal moratorium on evictions [pdf]"

mcdirty — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:23:01 +0000

I'm sure folks are going to pay their rents on time... Just sure of it /sic

New comment by mcdirty in "Toonify Yourself"

mcdirty — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 04:59:43 +0000

This shit is scary

New comment by mcdirty in "Intel Launches 11th Gen Core Tiger Lake"

mcdirty — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:49:39 +0000

Snoozefest

New comment by mcdirty in "Chime, a Go Editor for macOS – v1.0 Now Available"

mcdirty — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 00:25:49 +0000

Disappointing this is only for macOS. For the time being I'm stuck with Goland from Jetbrains or VSCode. I applaud the effort though. The ecosystem could use far more options.

New comment by mcdirty in "Don’t buy the MacBook Pros even on sale, in my opinion"

mcdirty — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:32:39 +0000

I can't believe the amount of people who don't realize the Lenovo X1 Carbon (version 6) is the powerhouse computer they've all been looking for. It's linux compatible for devs. The only reason most devs are tied to OSX is because of tooling. Mainly brew.

I bought the new x1 carbon and am never looking back to Apple.

New comment by mcdirty in "Real-time updates without JavaScript"

mcdirty — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:23:27 +0000

And someone wrote a script to overload it. ~Nice Try~ :D

New comment by mcdirty in "TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code"

mcdirty — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:10:06 +0000

I did a 3 month contract working on porting Terraria (the actual game) from XNA to Unity and updating things like UI from sprite batching etc.

Coincidentally and fwiw, the actual source code to Terraria was also a hellscape of spaghetti code.

New comment by mcdirty in "New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store"

mcdirty — Thu, 11 May 2017 17:51:20 +0000

I initially had problems with max character length for paths. When npm installed dependencies really deep down, Windows became unable to move or delete such files. I think it's been fixed with Yarn's flat dependency structure, which I think npm has also gone or is going to in the near future.