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New comment by swilliamsio in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

swilliamsio — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 21:02:00 +0000

Yes, my bad. Fixed.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

swilliamsio — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:27:20 +0000

Made the switch to Mint recently. Steam says that of 750 games on my account, 748 can run on Linux, and I've had no problems with the dozen or so I've played lately.

New comment by swilliamsio in "The HTML review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web"

swilliamsio — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:29:41 +0000

This is great. I wish there was an RSS feed or newsletter I could sign up to - I'm not going to remember to check this in 12 months time.

Also they have a lot of other cool sites linked in their about page: https://thehtml.review/about.html

New comment by swilliamsio in "Nobody cares about your blog"

swilliamsio — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:43:43 +0000

It piqued my curiousity too so I had a little look. It's called an Impressum. I think OP is incorrect that personal websites need to list a phone number and address - it seems to just apply to commercial entities.

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/23395

https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/websites/digital-law/a-...

New comment by swilliamsio in "Internet Archive expands Flash support"

swilliamsio — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:30:33 +0000

A shockingly large amount of music used in old flash games and in old YouTube videos is by Kevin MacLeod, whose released thousands of high quality tracks of all styles under CC-BY.

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

New comment by swilliamsio in "New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable"

swilliamsio — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 19:20:26 +0000

Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgotten piece of equipment when you could just Ctrl+F and instantly find what you seek?

Any other kind of book I do much rather prefer the paper version though.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

swilliamsio — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:33:34 +0000

https://www.swilliams.io/

I should write more.

New comment by swilliamsio in "I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated"

swilliamsio — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:26:39 +0000

Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language"

swilliamsio — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 10:59:00 +0000

On the free ChatGPT, I got it to play hangman with the prompt:

> Let's play hangman. I'm thinking of a word: _______

It made a variety of guesses generally in the form of

> Based on the pattern you provided, I will guess the letter "I". Is there an "I" in the word?

My response was either "No [letter]" or an updated state of the word: "_RE_IE_".

New comment by swilliamsio in "I use cheap notebooks"

swilliamsio — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:48:22 +0000

If you want a source, Steam Hardware Survey[0] somewhat agrees with what you're saying, especially when taking in to account that gamers would have better specs than average.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

New comment by swilliamsio in "Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?"

swilliamsio — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 10:45:39 +0000

itch.io is massive for games if you want a new Newgrounds. The tech stack has moved on from Flash to use Unity or GameMaker or Godot or Construct. It's feasible for someone not knowing how to code to use most game engines to create something - not uncommon in Game Jams to see teams like that.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce"

swilliamsio — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 23:01:39 +0000

Bless your heart.

New comment by swilliamsio in "One store’s decision to leave San Francisco over crime"

swilliamsio — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:44:30 +0000

Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.

New comment by swilliamsio in "The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web"

swilliamsio — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:19:46 +0000

The timing of birth does at least slightly influence a child's development through the relative age effect - the oldest kids in each academic year get a few benefits over their peers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_age_effect

New comment by swilliamsio in "Old jokes"

swilliamsio — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:52:58 +0000

It was called Punch Buggy when it was for beetles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy

I definitely also played the yellow car variant. I assume it's the preferred variant nowadays given how rare bugs are.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse"

swilliamsio — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 09:29:52 +0000

New comment by swilliamsio in "Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable"

swilliamsio — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:50:20 +0000

Recently found out about ClickUp. It's not quite as feature-rich as JIRA, but nowhere near as simplistic as Trello, and its fairly jank-free so I'm a fan.

New comment by swilliamsio in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

swilliamsio — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:41:09 +0000

That has kind of already been done in the 2010 PS3 game MAG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAG_(video_game)

New comment by swilliamsio in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

swilliamsio — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:37:34 +0000

The Mount & Blade Warband Persistent World mod servers are like this. All equipment and resources have to be mined, crafted, and used by players, and the only gameplay was player interactions - trade, banditry, war. Amazingly good fun when you're on the right servers with the right people. No idea if its still active or not.

New comment by swilliamsio in "My take on Elon's offer for Twitter"

swilliamsio — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:42:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message