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I’ve been building software for around 20 years. It’s more enjoyable to me than it has ever been. One of the reasons is I have my own playground repo + site whe

I’ve been building software for around 20 years. It’s more enjoyable to me than it has ever been. One of the reasons is I have my own playground repo + site where I put all my experiments and write whatever I want. I can now make more in a day than I could have made in a year 15 years ago. In the past few months, I have: - built a serverless website/ code playground that enables me to host all my experiments and costs me essentially nothing - parsed the original zork code into typescript and then made a zork style game for my family - made about 5 educational mini games for my kids - learned how to do systematic math proofs with the lean language - created a serverless and database-free user data storage service on aws - created a serverless websocket service and a real time party game on aws. This morning I started building a serverless mesh-like network on top of websockets and webrtc to further reduce infrastructure dependency. Oh yeah, last year I was part of a corporate competition to build and program a self-driving RC car. Now, of course, I do most of this on my own time by getting up at 4:30 so it doesn’t interfere with my family and my work - and at work I sometimes have to do boring tasks - but that’s life. If you aren’t having fun, you simply are not playing with all the technology we have at our fingertips.

NortySpock 6y ago
Can you describe more about your serverless website / code playground? Just curious. (I'm currently re-discovering the fun of coding by writing video games and hosting them internally to my house on docker containers on a Raspberry Pi.)
- ricksharp 6y ago
  Sure: https://ricklove.me https://ricklove.me So, almost all my content is hidden, but if you like text adventures you might have a go with the header bar. It's pointing at my repo which is a mono-repo full of whatever I feel like: https://github.com/ricklove/rick-love-master https://github.com/ricklove/rick-love-master Basically, this is a website all built in react. It uses a simplified version of gatsby to generate a static website with async loaded components. That is hosted on netlify which basically provides free https, simple dns management, and git deploy with auto CDN cache expiration. In addition, I use serverless framework cli to define my AWS infrastructure and deploy the serverless stuff from command line. Essentially, I can make anything and deploy it in about 30 secs. Some interesting things: - A text adventure called dork (it's in the console simulator in the header) - A doodle game for parties (using serverless websockets with AWS Api Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB): https://ricklove.me/games/doodle-party?room=hacker-news https://ricklove.me/games/doodle-party?room=hacker-news - A bunch of educational games I made for my kids (using AWS lambda and S3 for storage): https://ricklove.me/games https://ricklove.me/games - A code relationship visualizer: https://ricklove.me/tests/code-space/ https://ricklove.me/tests/code-space/ - Components Testing (e.g. Stripe: https://ricklove.me/tests/stripe/ https://ricklove.me/tests/stripe/)

NortySpock 6y ago

Can you describe more about your serverless website / code playground? Just curious. (I'm currently re-discovering the fun of coding by writing video games and hosting them internally to my house on docker containers on a Raspberry Pi.)

ricksharp 6y ago
Sure: https://ricklove.me https://ricklove.me So, almost all my content is hidden, but if you like text adventures you might have a go with the header bar. It's pointing at my repo which is a mono-repo full of whatever I feel like: https://github.com/ricklove/rick-love-master https://github.com/ricklove/rick-love-master Basically, this is a website all built in react. It uses a simplified version of gatsby to generate a static website with async loaded components. That is hosted on netlify which basically provides free https, simple dns management, and git deploy with auto CDN cache expiration. In addition, I use serverless framework cli to define my AWS infrastructure and deploy the serverless stuff from command line. Essentially, I can make anything and deploy it in about 30 secs. Some interesting things: - A text adventure called dork (it's in the console simulator in the header) - A doodle game for parties (using serverless websockets with AWS Api Gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB): https://ricklove.me/games/doodle-party?room=hacker-news https://ricklove.me/games/doodle-party?room=hacker-news - A bunch of educational games I made for my kids (using AWS lambda and S3 for storage): https://ricklove.me/games https://ricklove.me/games - A code relationship visualizer: https://ricklove.me/tests/code-space/ https://ricklove.me/tests/code-space/ - Components Testing (e.g. Stripe: https://ricklove.me/tests/stripe/ https://ricklove.me/tests/stripe/)