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by alxmdev 11y ago
I remember often ending up on his blog when looking up various Wordpress and web development topics back in the 2000s. The about page ( http://alexking.org/about ) on his website reveals an exciting and accomplished career, n
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by alxmdev 11y ago
Long-term personal projects are the best things you can reward your developer mind with. The dedication and achievement in TempleOS is phenomenal.
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by alxmdev 11y ago
Nice work! I like the idea of automatically loading resources from known locations so they're ready to use right away. I got my taste for software development by starting with games programming, and finding a friendly environment that
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by alxmdev 12y ago
Some basic music theory so I can write my own chiptunes :-) Also planning to give Haxe a try one of these weekends, to see how pleasant it is for coding small browser games.
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by alxmdev 12y ago
Their website is still up: http://www.detachedsolutions.com/mirageos/ From the ticalc.org page, "Ranked as 2 on our all-time top downloads list with 1003409 downloads." Over a million downloads over its lif
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I find the technology choice here very interesting, a desktop applet programmed with what I look at as mainly web technologies (JavaScript, JSON, Node, Webkit). It's impossible to ignore how the landscape has changed in the past 5 year
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by alxmdev 12y ago
Most websites still don't behave well if I increase my browser's minimum font size to something I'm comfortable with, like 16 or 18pt. Entire or partial blocks of content will disappear, links will become unclickable, paragra
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Extensions to the C Language Family(gcc.gnu.org)
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I enjoyed Gnome 2 as well, back on Debian 5 and 6. Did you try MATE ( http://mate-desktop.org/ )? It's an active fork of Gnome 2.
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I see. I was thinking in the context of your second pastebin link and the evil_template.c snippet in the article, where the functions are actually generic (and in which case you can't avoid the function being declared as a macro unless
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by alxmdev 12y ago
Yes, but that is now a worker function that handles every if(n == x) case explicitly in the body, not something you need the preprocessor for anymore. Nothing against it, but it is a different design.
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I prefer the single file solution too. I suppose it comes down to how much having escape markers on every line of the function implementation bothers you, and if your favorite code editor does full syntax highlighting in such a case.
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by alxmdev 12y ago
Thanks for linking to that video, it was fun to watch. I've looked at the 90s' id games differently ever since I read Masters of Doom 10 years ago (due for a re-read soon) - learning their history made me appreciate those games on
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by alxmdev 12y ago
"In tandem with taped-on-screen plastic overlays and physical board and card game paraphernalia, the Odyssey could provide new gameplay experiences." I'm too young to have played these 70s systems, but the quote above remin
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by alxmdev 12y ago
"If everyone in the next generation of game developers decides to use a pre-fab engine, who will be left to make the new engines?" Implementing low-level systems yourself is a valuable exercise for games as much as for any other
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I hope they'll label mixed content pages the same way as plain HTTP, it might motivate all the big websites that still get this wrong to get their act together.
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by alxmdev 12y ago
I'm a big fan of Geany, it's a polished lightweight editor with good defaults and all the settings I need to keep my code formatted how I like it. I use the Solarized Dark theme ( https://github.com/codebrainz/