Probably the best way to do it would be to get a job doing programming, but despite having 2 degrees in computer science, programming for 15 years and a year of applying to hundreds of jobs I still couldn't get one.

So I just got a job stocking shelves in a grocery store for ~3 months to gather some capital and registered a limited liability company.

Personally I would have preferred doing a desktop app, but since they are not popular anymore, I made a SaaS.

Since I had just finished working on a raytracing renderer for my graphics package, I decided to make a bingus-my-beloved style image generator.

Basically I just save the list of operations needed to compute each pixel color of an image, instead of executing the operations immediately. Then I convert it into a bytecode-like format and store it. When generating images I just execute the bytecode to generate the final color values for each pixel in an image.

I also used Google Cloud! (I have never used a cloud before and I heard that it is a good cloud).

Personally I don't really like doing frontend and CSS, so I minimized my use of it via arcane magic that I discovered on StackOverflow 15 years ago. At least it renders correctly in Internet Explorer 6.

Most SaaS project don't really generate any revenue, since they solve problems that don't exist, so I would not be upset if this project flops.

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]]>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:42:04 +0000https://kaimlatechnology.com/saas/racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940507https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44940507I have 2115 bookmarks in my Firefox.. god I love bookmarking. I don't even follow people on social medias, I just bookmark them. I even sort the bookmarks.

]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:04:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932127racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932127https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44932127I have tried getting LLMs to review code that I have written and most of the feedback I get is useless. It's as if they can only spot the most trivial of issues, or even worse -- they find issues in places where they don't exist.

I guess that they are moderately useful for finding copy-paste errors.

]]>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:42:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844988racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844988https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844988I mean yeah, Visual Studio 2022 is probably great, but have you tried installing Visual Studio 2008 Express?? It starts up in like .. under a second. Zero lag. WinForms? Absolutely beautiful. Runs smooth even on a Pentium 3.

]]>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:19:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844900racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44844900It's the same GIF that's used in the polish milk soup song video.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:59:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632634racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632634https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632634I made the website header in GIMP. The logo in the repository README was made in a very old version of MS office.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:57:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632620racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42632620That's why added it in as an optional extension. It is a part of the larger engine project, but it is completely optional.

I like the C++ principle of paying only for what you use.

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:02:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628175racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628175https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628175There's literally nothing preventing you from dragging the edge of the engine window and resizing it, or calling the screen resize function from the C++ or Lua API.

That bit about 24-bit color and 800x600 resolutions was mostly meant to be a fun nod to promotional text that you could find on the backs of old game boxes.

The default renderer for the engine is meant to emulate what you could achieve with a graphics card that has a fixed-function graphics pipeline.

I'll do more modern renderer later, for now I am mostly focusing on the engine architecture, tools and workflows.

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:42:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627930racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627930https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627930The oldest computer that I have tried running this engine is a HP laptop from 2008, running a 32-bit version of Windows XP.

It seemed to work fine, but I did have some issues with the Direct3D 9 renderer. The renderer works fine on other computers, so I have no idea if it's a driver bug (Intel tends to have buggy drivers) or if it's a bug on my part.

The biggest problem with using old hardware is drivers. Older drivers will only work on older operating systems and it's difficult to find C++20 compilers that will work on them.

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:02:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625307racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625307https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625307I would say that it is way too early for a game jam.

The webassembly builds seem to work fine. A basic project would take up around 20MB and takes a couple of seconds to load in, so it's not great, but then again I haven't done any optimizations for this.

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:26:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624920racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624920https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624920I just realized that I had forgotten to actually add the license file to this repository. Added it now.

The license is MIT. Thanks for noticing.

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:46:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624425racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624425Hello everyone, I would like to see if there is any interest in this little project that I have been working on for the past few years.

Could be relevant, seeing the direction in which the mainstream game engines are going.

I didn't really like any of the already existing options, so I tried to make my own and it turned out to be easier than expected.

It's sort of like a low-budget Unreal/Source, but with open-world streaming support and it is free and open source. Very old-school. But optimized for more modern hardware. Very fast too.

Still not production ready, but it seems like it is mostly working.

I want to finish a few larger projects with it to see what happens.

Btw, the name is probably temporary.

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]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:22:09 +0000https://racenis.github.io/tram-sdk/why.htmlracenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624116https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42624116You should sync up the names with the emails. Maybe more fun variations on the passwords. Other than that, it looks great!

]]>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 03:13:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618771racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618771https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42618771On Windows I would use Notepad++ and MinGW.

On Linux I would use vim and gcc.

C is so simple that you don't really need fancy IDE to write it.

]]>Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:10:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407593racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407593https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42407593What are the available timezones? I am getting a 999 response for every time zone I tried.

]]>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:26:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110185racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110185https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42110185Do you think that you could use that Erlang feature where you can link up several server program instances running on separate physical servers?

Maybe you could simulate different parts of the game world on different physical servers.

I think this is something like what the Very Large MMOs do, but with Erlang it might be easier.

]]>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:35:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42109826racenishttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42109826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42109826