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New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:03:03 +0000

https://raizensoft.com - Game development tutorials and resources for code-centric frameworks (libGDX, LWJGL, MonoGame, etc). All articles are written by me and I've been running the site for 10 months to share my passion and technical knowledge. 200+ articles so far and I'm planning to add more.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

rimmontrieu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:44:04 +0000

New comment by rimmontrieu in "I Don't Want My Search Engine to Think for Me"

rimmontrieu — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:18:00 +0000

I've switched back to the pre-llm / AI summaries period when I extensively search for the results and also discover tons of great web resources along the way. The novelty of instant answers from the chatbot is gone. Now I just deliberately ignore the top AI summaries and go straight for the ten blue links.

If I need a chatbot I'll launch the app. Mixing the AI answers in SERP is too much noise for me.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

rimmontrieu — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:16:40 +0000

People care a lot about the story and the human artists behind their music, probably somewhat more than the music itself. When I discover some great metal songs, I'll look up their info, the band, the artists, their bio, everything related to the creation process and their history.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

rimmontrieu — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:06:17 +0000

Some people actually don't really like to learn new things. If the machine spits out plausible working code, they'd be perfectly happy with that. Personally I think AI is doing a lot more harm than good and I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:46:50 +0000

Being an introvert myself and perfectly fine when being alone, this is so hard to read. Possibly it's just me but making new friends is quite overrated, and the whole thing OP does feels forced and artificial at many levels. Genuine connection should be built on mutual deep interests, and small talks at random places rarely reveal them. I'd be disappointed if someone starts a conversation with me artificially because I'm part of their hidden social experiment.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "MonoGame: A .NET framework for making cross-platform games"

rimmontrieu — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:49:56 +0000

Java equivalent: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

rimmontrieu — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:50:21 +0000

and waste everyone time

New comment by rimmontrieu in "We might all be AI engineers now"

rimmontrieu — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:21:48 +0000

> But guided? The models can write better code than most developers. That’s the part people don’t want to sit with. When guided.

Where do you draw the line between just enough guidance vs too much hand holding to an agent? At some point, wouldn't it be better to just do it yourself and be done with the project (while also build your muscle memory, experiences and the mental model for future projects, just like tons of regular devs have done in the past)

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:27:51 +0000

For more context, I've developed over 200 games[0] using libGDX and threejs. I've learnt so much from working with code-oriented frameworks that are closer to the system APIs. I can never imagine if I could do all that in today full-blown game engines in term of effectiveness and development speed.

[0]: https://ookigame.com

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:06:30 +0000

Nice article, engines are bloated and introduce so many overheads. If you don't intend to ship any AAA games, consider investing your times to learn code-first game frameworks like libGDX, MonoGame, love2d,... or even lower level stuffs like SDL, bgfx, opengl which are good enough for almost any cases. A bit higher learning curve is expected but it won't hide anything from you, or bury you under tons of bloated abstractions.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?"

rimmontrieu — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:30:57 +0000

I just check HN for worthy news, everything else is just noise. I miss the old days of forums.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

rimmontrieu — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:48:52 +0000

This is a great news for Astro. It ticks all the boxes when being used to build heavy content and SEO driven websites. I've been using (Astro + Cloudflare workers/pages) as my go-to stack to build my Java gamedev resources website [1] and gaming portal [2], so far and the experience is very positive. Deploying static files to Cloudflare edges feels natural and frictionless.

Still a bit concerned that it might be too tempting to build an entire website infrastructure around cloudflare, which is a single point of failure. But there is really no better alternatives at the moment. I tried self-hosting but eventually resorted to cloudflare because of bad bots, ai, scrappers kept hammering on my sites.

[1] https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/ [2] https://ookigame.com

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

rimmontrieu — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:17:34 +0000

https://raizensoft.com - My website for learning Java game development with libGDX framework

https://ookigame.com - My collection of 200 games I developed over the years using libGDX and threejs

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

rimmontrieu — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:28:35 +0000

thanks a lot!

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:05:11 +0000

Just launched my gaming portal a few weeks ago, featuring over 200 games I've made over the years:

https://ookigame.com/

All the games were either developed with libGDX or threejs. I have no plan to monetize yet and still work on building traffic and improving SEO. Surprisingly, I got approved for google adsense already, which I submitted just for experimenting.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

rimmontrieu — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:45:29 +0000

Browsers only support OpenGL ES so only if your shaders use any OpenGL specific features you have to rewrite. Otherwise, it's just plain simple to export to both desktop and browser targets.

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

rimmontrieu — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:51:08 +0000

+1 TeaVM is crazily good. Comparing to GWT it has faster build time and better exports to javascript. I've built so many games using libGDX + TeaVM and quite happy with the workflow and results.

Here's one of many: https://ookigame.com/game/flappy-bug/

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

rimmontrieu — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:40:07 +0000

You can do that manually but it's tedious if you want to use multiple JDKs. Assuming you want to test two apps outside of an IDE, one only supports Java 8 API, and the other supports Java 21 API, you don't want to edit JAVA_HOME every time you switch back and forth between the two apps.

With scoop you can just launch the terminal and run `scoop reset [java-version]`

New comment by rimmontrieu in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

rimmontrieu — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:44:33 +0000

It wouldn't be so bad if the ads are stuck in some dedicated regions of the chat interface. On the other hand, if it appears out of no where in the middle of the conversation, that'll be a huge turn off and terrible terrible mistake.