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by AshleysBrain 11mo ago
I think the article is slightly misleading: it says "Google has resumed work on JPEG XL", but I don't think they have - their announcement only says they "would welcome contributions" to implement JPEG XL support. I
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A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2(mastodon.gamedev.place)
522 points by AshleysBrain 11mo ago|86 comments
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C++ Language Updates in MSVC Build Tools v14.50(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
It's easy to say "XYZ is dead, time to replace it with something better". Another example is the Win32 APIs are hideous (look up everything SetWindowPos does) and need replacing. In the real world though, backwards compatibil
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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes(arstechnica.com)
9 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Firefox 141 Released(firefox.com)
12 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files(construct.net)
2 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files(construct.net)
3 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Recovering Corrupt Zip Files(construct.net)
1 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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Construct now has built-in support for TypeScript(construct.net)
1 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
This reminds me of the quote by Robert C. Martin[1]: "the ratio of time spent reading [code] versus writing is well over 10 to 1". If programmers spend 90%+ of their time reading code rather than writing it, then LLM-generated cod
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Construct now has built-in support for TypeScript(construct.net)
2 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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Construct now has built-in support for TypeScript(construct.net)
1 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
IIRC JPEG2000 was never supported by any browser other than Safari, and even Safari recently gave up and removed support (around the same time they added support for JPEG XL). As to why other browsers never supported it, I'm not sure.
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
WebP seems pretty widely supported to me - on Windows at least, Explorer shows thumbnails for them, Paint can open them, other editors like Paint.NET have built-in support... I haven't come across software that doesn't support Web
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
They were referring to some apps ignoring your default browser preference and opening Microsoft Edge whenever you click any link in the app. That's not a niche case, it's an everyday interaction.
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Are developers falling out of love with Apple?(brucelawson.co.uk)
3 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|1 comments
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Are developers falling out of love with Apple?(brucelawson.co.uk)
2 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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Are developers falling out of love with Apple?(brucelawson.co.uk)
5 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
Perfect blog post for HN IMO - any blog title involving "in too much detail" will probably do well! Great job with the post, the visualizations are fantastic.
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Construct: Browser-Based Game Engine(construct.net)
1 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 1y ago
Wish they said what they actually did to get these improvements!
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Construct's new text and code editor(construct.net)
1 points by AshleysBrain 1y ago|0 comments
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
I'm sure there's a time and a place for "vibe coding", but a related point is with larger software projects, most work is maintenance (shameless plug: see my blog post on the subject[1]). It should be obvious that if the
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
I'd say that our JS game engine codebase is generally idiomatic, maintainable JS. We don't really do anything too esoteric to get maximum performance - modern JS engines are phenomenal at optimizing idiomatic code. The best JS per
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
Well-optimized JavaScript can get to within about 1.5x the performance of C++ - something we have experience with having developed a full game engine in JavaScript [1]. Why is the TypeScript team moving to an entirely different technology i
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
Just to be clear, you can still access your projects without a subscription - it's only editing that a subscription unlocks. We also have a full asset store here: https://www.construct.net/en/game-assets
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
I think a few comparable development tools have sprung up, including ours, Construct [1], which is very much web-first. I think the reason people say nothing replaced Flash is because now there are lots of tools instead of just one, as anyo
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by AshleysBrain 2y ago
It's nice to throw around ideas like this sometimes, but the reality is if a new browser is not compatible with 99.9% of existing web content, nobody will use it.
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The reality of long-term software maintenance from the maintainer's perspective(construct.net)
128 points by AshleysBrain 2y ago|30 comments

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