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New comment by spidey1 in "The Cypherpunk Library"

spidey1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:56:53 +0000

do you have any recommendations?

New comment by spidey1 in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""

spidey1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:55:39 +0000

A couple of nice projects I can think of are DragonRuby [1] - a 2d engine that uses SDL under the hood and mruby for its game logic. I created this [2] game jam entry in under two weeks of part time effort (has a few bugs but works)

[3] Sonic Pi - Music creation tool that uses ruby for instruction

[1]: https://dragonruby.org/

[2]: https://itch.io/jam/linux-game-jam2023/rate/2101760

[3]: https://sonic-pi.net/

New comment by spidey1 in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

spidey1 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:21:11 +0000

Try Fn+Control+F2

New comment by spidey1 in "Ask HN: Would you pick Unity for game development?"

spidey1 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:58:44 +0000

I personally wouldn't but I have a leaning towards foss tools where possible, currently using godot, blender and gimp, my gamedev holy trinity.

Godot is good enough for a lot of 3d games especially if you have stylised art that doesn't need the highest fidelity rendering.

If I was trying to make a high production, high realism, commercial 3d game I would probably look at Unreal engine over Unity because I think the former is better but also Unity have shown they're willing test the limits of money extraction from their licensees, Unreal so far haven't pulled any similar nonsense as far as I'm aware.

New comment by spidey1 in "YouTube is blocking videos for users who block ads"

spidey1 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 09:13:06 +0000

Apparently you can change your country via a VPN and pay whatever it costs in that country. Try India or Brazil.

New comment by spidey1 in "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research"

spidey1 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:23:01 +0000

I've heard the term "Ultra processed foods" used for twinkie like foods.

New comment by spidey1 in "RavynOS – Finesse of macOS, freedom of FreeBSD"

spidey1 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:40:57 +0000

How does this compare to Hello System? [1]

[1] https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

New comment by spidey1 in "Always Own Your Platform (2019)"

spidey1 — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 07:08:59 +0000

Looks like havenweb can be self hosted and posthaven doesn’t offer that.

New comment by spidey1 in "Extracting TLS keys from an unwilling application (2020)"

spidey1 — Tue, 24 May 2022 20:31:50 +0000

Is there a similar tool that a non-security expert could use on the Mac?

New comment by spidey1 in "Gmail as a threat to data access: forced 2-factor login, random lock-outs"

spidey1 — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 08:39:14 +0000

KeePassXC supports TOTP so you could have it on your desktop in an encrypted database.

New comment by spidey1 in "What If You Could Do It All Over?"

spidey1 — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:02:44 +0000

I, very fortunately, landed a small NGO as my first dev job out of boot camp. We're a team of 3 with full autonomy over how we structure ourselves and the tools we use. Also, the bureaucracy is little to none.

Based on what I've read here, other sites, friends and colleagues, I should have changed jobs at least a couple of times by now but I've been here almost 4 years now and don't regret it. If you've found a place that you find fulfilling then I don't think I need to follow conventional advice. The downsides are less exposure to different project types and not working with a bigger team of experienced devs. I need to compensate for this by putting in extra effort on my side but I still think I've made the right choice for now.

I think if I ended up in a commercial dev job, I would have started looking at other options as well. It makes a real difference when you see you work being used for a greater good.

While you're considering other options, maybe also consider joining a smaller dev team where you have more autonomy and less red tape.

New comment by spidey1 in "New 13-inch MacBook Pro"

spidey1 — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:26:55 +0000

Macs are Unix computers.

New comment by spidey1 in "Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye"

spidey1 — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:24:27 +0000

lwn?

New comment by spidey1 in "Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common"

spidey1 — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 15:43:06 +0000

How do you manage this conflict?

I think a lot of us suffer from this at different scales. I've always found it difficult to work on things that will pay off in the future, even if I plan something I just don't seem to be able to carry through a long term project to the end unless I'm in an environment where there's accountability such as deadlines on projects at work.

I'm very prone to instant gratification, which is why I can easily lose most of my spare time in video games, netflix, youtube etc.

New comment by spidey1 in "Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?"

spidey1 — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:32:33 +0000

So how do you go about it?

I've only been in this field for about 18 months and I'm so overwhelmed by all these conflicting ideas and have no idea where to turn.

Do you have any advice for juniors on how to internalise good engineering principles and how to avoid dogma?

New comment by spidey1 in "Xit: Another Git Client for MacOS"

spidey1 — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 08:28:18 +0000

There's also gitx - http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/

New comment by spidey1 in "Life is Short (2016)"

spidey1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 07:36:09 +0000

I've seen a similar result with video games. I'd much rather play a self contained single player game that I can play through once than be hooked into a multiplayer adrenaline fest (for me that was team fortress 2 and left 4 dead).