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by jasonkester 4mo ago
I didn’t get to use any of the cool terms for what I was doing though. FIRE and Digital Nomadding hadn’t been invented yet.
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
The problem was that every time I stopped contracting for somebody, they stopped sending me money. Building software products fixed that: https://expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-l...
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
> Managers love the idea that contractors can be fired more easily than employees. Except that this flexibility comes at a cost; I noticed this early, and spent the first half of my career leaning into it. If you negotiate every gig as
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
Yeah, that went about as well as I would have expected. It dug up a bunch of what can only be my information, then made up a bunch of confidently wrong things to say about me. I'm a Software Engineer and SaaS guy, known for running the
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
If you're not familiar with this channel, do yourself a favor and watch your way through his backyard trail build videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsuk8OndHs&list=PL5S7V5NhM8... They're so well done.
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm still waiting for Ken Arnold to get in touch to offer to compose me a soundtrack.
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
I'm building a video game. It's a Retro Survival Crafting RPG that crams the gameplay of Valheim into the tile-based UI of Ultima IV. https://stravaeger.com/ It's all vanilla Javascript, running in the brows
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
I guess the difference between the parent and me is that I’ve been around long enough to see my share of “fix typo “ and “remove logging “ commits that accidentally removed the line above or below. That’s the commit I want to find six month
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by jasonkester 4mo ago
This is the response I expected to see here. Reading through the article, I'm reminded of my dismay reading this exact sentiment every time version control is discussed. So many people are so quick to throw away their history so that
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
Yeah, of course. I’ve only ever been disappointed by ai, so I don’t use it. I run my own shop, so I can do what I want, but I’m happy with my pace (which I’ve noticed is quite fast compared to folks I’ve worked with), and I don’t find “spee
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
It’s the big advantage that small companies have over big ones. I’ve ridden startups through the phase where they transition to “responsible adults”, and start putting in policies and locking things down and generally behaving like the gian
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
You need to compensate for not adding it though. The recipe without was literally the same ingredient list as the site it copied, just missing a line. And almond flour does its thing by carmelizing in combination with butter and sugar, tur
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
But google won’t give you the recipe. It’ll give you a pretty piece of text that resembles a recipe. You’ll only find out it’s not a recipe when it fails to produce a cake. But then, the sites it's training on are starting to do the sa
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
Yeah, compared to the AWS experience: I had a toy Free Tier account that managed to overstep a limit one month and rack up $0.0038 in charges. AWS hounded me about it for an entire year before finally putting the account on hold. Then kept
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
There are good overnight ferries from England to France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Cheap too. We live in France and often spend the summer visiting family in the north of England. For a family of four, it works out about the same price t
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by jasonkester 5mo ago
Everybody gets killed by the goat.
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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript
5 points by jasonkester 5mo ago|3 comments
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
Thanks! Yeah, all the tiles are hand drawn, though I took a lot of inspiration from the original Ultima graphics. Early on, I actually used a bunch of tiles that I had lifted straight from Ultima V, but I swapped them all out for my own wo
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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript
3 points by jasonkester 6mo ago|3 comments
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
The json thing is what makes it particularly surprising. It’s literally ’gameconstants.js’ with an item list that has a .name string and a .armor value that it could look up. But when I pointed it to the file and told it which row to read f
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
Yeah. I wasn’t angry about this a couple days ago, but I am now. So the thing that’s on by default and makes autocomplete worse (plain intelligence never changed my s.x = 0 to s.xVInputRadiusDetectionThreshold = 0 if I happened to take my e
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
That's the plan. A game for all seven of us old enough to remember when games looked like this.
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Show HN: I Built a Retro Survival RPG in Vanilla JavaScript(stravaeger.com)
1 points by jasonkester 6mo ago|2 comments
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
LLMs seem really bad with reading numbers and reporting them back. I’m building a game, and to se how well its docs were being indexed, I tried asking simple questions to ChatGPT, Gemini, whatever Microsoft’s thing is, etc: “What is the arm
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
I hope this doesn’t come across as making fun, but it had never occurred to me that GitHub could be anything more than a tool for hosting my source code. So if you had written this same piece about all the good times you’d had in Windows Ex
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
It’s interesting to read the comments here. People seem to be either strongly for, or strongly against this tapping feature. I bet the split correlates to whether all your friends live in the same town as you. For me, I already know what th
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
I really like the idea of a “facebook before it got bad “, with just people you actually know posting about what they’re up to. But the “tap phones” thing wouldn’t work for me. Most of my friends and family live halfway around the world fro
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
From their point of view, that's the product working correctly. The whole point of all these consumer cloud storage products is to make it easy to upload your stuff and impossible to download it. (impossible - 1u to be precise, for l
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by jasonkester 6mo ago
My advice: If you want people to give you money so that you don’t have to shut down, and you’re writing a ten paragraph plea for donations, consider using one of those paragraphs to tell people what your thing is. If we knew what it was, we
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by jasonkester 7mo ago
I found myself hoping to find signals that it was written by AI, so that I didn't have to feel embarrassed for an actual author. That's a first for me.

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