AndrewStephens

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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
> For me, the joy is not in having a website, the joy is in building the website. Why would I want to hand off the joyful part? I have a server to serve my website and a website to have something for my server to do.
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I am so into this philosophy. My web site is an expression of me and no-one else. If someone tells me it looks ugly or non-professional (I have heard both, although my site is not so weird as this one) I can tell them that I like it that wa
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I think the days of Google driving traffic to sites then splitting the advertising revenue (or missing out entirely) are largely over. From Google's point of view, they are just closing the loop. It is a shame because the mutually bene
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
You are getting some pushback but you are not wrong. I thought I was being pretty careful with my DO droplet but just last weekend discovered that it had been hacked and was consorting with mysterious IP addresses in Russia and Brazil. This
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
The droplet that hosts my blog (mostly static files) got hacked into (I think) a botnet and I had to spend hours rebuilding it. There is nothing worse than having your hard work misused by people for a tiny financial gain.
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
This reminds me of the joke about the guy who couldn't afford a vanity number plate for his car so he changed his name to CK-16450
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
AI can do that now? Looks like I have to upgrade all of my 5-bit SSL keys.
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
In 2001, a pure quantum computer using Shor's algorithm correctly gave the prime factors of 15. In 2012 they managed to find the prime factors of 21. Since then, everyone has given up on the purely quantum approach by using lots of tra
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
The Atari really did have amazing graphics capabilities but the basic Apple][ design predates it by at least 2 years. Apple were slow to add graphical enhancements to the ][ line, perhaps not wanting to be labeled as a mere "gaming&quo
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
OK, you are technically (the best kind of) correct. Some people were thinking of scrolling and sprites in 1979 but those people were using expensive dedicated hardware that would take a few years to filter down to home computers once people
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I had an Apple][+ back in the day. You have to understand that the Apple][ predates what we think of as 8-bit computers by a few years and the fact it was cheap enough to mass produce was a minor miracle. Corners were cut everywhere, the Ap
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
The documentation states that rybbit does not use cookies and is compliant with the GDPR. The first part is true but, looking at the code (very nice to have it available), the tracking is done by IP address, trading one piece of tracking da
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Containers help in two ways. First in deployment, if you really have a complex system (and "modern" development practices seem to encourage complexity). But containers really shine during development if you have more than a few de
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
This is the truth. I interview a lot of C++ programmers and it amazes me how many have gone their whole careers barely touching C++11 let alone anything later. The extreme reach of C++ software (embedded, UIs, apps, high-speed networking, s
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I do (nginx plus a couple of custom services) but my needs are very minimal. As soon as you need something a little complex or redundancy by spinning up multiple nodes then containers start to make a huge amount of sense.
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
> Exif Yeah, I thought I was being careful and manually stripping it from photos until a nice reader emailed me to gently let me know i had missed a few.
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I restarted my own blog in exactly the same way after getting frustrated with WordPress. The most important thing in blogging is to get something simple that will not get the way of you actually writing. Over the years I have added to my so
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I worked on a commercial HTTP proxy that scanned compressed files. Back then we would start to decompress a file but keep track of the compression ratio. I forget what the cutoff was but as soon as we saw a ratio over a certain threshold we
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
>> their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes > How on earth is a screen recording app 250 megabytes How on earth is a screen recording app on a OS where the API to record the screen is built directly int
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Inform is the big one for "GET LAMP"-style parser text adventures although I haven't used it for years. For choice based text games there is Twine and ink (plus many others). I personally used ink[0] for a project[1] and it w
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I think for a lot of people here, the hard part of writing an adventure is not writing the code but coming up with a compelling game with an interesting story and readable text. My advice is that if you want to actually end up with an adven
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
My conspiracy theory is that Google has been deliberately making its search results worse to subtly train users into engaging with ads and the AI assistant. There is little reason why the AI Assistant can be a summary of the exact page you
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
One of my issues with ActivityPub is that there is no such thing as a cut-down completely static AP feed for blogs. I want Mastodon users to be able to follow my static blog but I don't want to implement the machinery to have full inte
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
My experience is that CMake is fine (even great) for small to medium sized projects. Including dependencies, automating tests, even packaging is all handled with not too much fuss. If you think your project will have more than half a dozen
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
This was my blog post. I didn't explain it very very but I agree that you do not want to completely strip out the useful EXIF data. In particular, the colorspace values are used by the browser to show photos in a more "correct&qu
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
I am the author of the sheep.horse link above, although here[0] is an updated link. Even with filtering turned off you get slightly incorrect results, especially if you are resizing down where aliasing might completely ruin your image. Hars
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Thank you for playing my game. Yes, it is possible to make it to the top right sector and deliver your cargo. It is not easy - I recommend choosing the option to take extra fuel right at the start since running out of fuel is usually what k
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Your solution looks very similar to what I implemented; only logging the page and time with no identifying data. I don't even have a real database. I really hate that modern websites include multiple trackers - there is really no need
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Ink is such a cool language. I worked really hard on that game and entered it into an interactive fiction competition last year. It didn't come close to winning (I didn't expect it to) but people seemed to like it, especially if t
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by AndrewStephens 1y ago
Good question, it is not bad to enjoy attention for a project you worked on. But I feel that, if unchecked, that same impulse can lead to deliberately doing projects specifically for validation which leads to low quality click-bait and vapi

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