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by kurtdev 7mo ago
For prototyping I usually use Kenney assets (from kenney.nl). Theres lots of assets for many types of games which lets you rapidly prototype and iterate without worrying about making assets first. For sounds you can use BFXR and just play a
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Audiblez: Generate Audiobooks from E-Books(github.com)
2 points by kurtdev 1y ago|1 comments
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A mystery with memory leaks and a magic number (2016)(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by kurtdev 1y ago|0 comments
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by kurtdev 2y ago
Interesting account of how living a democracy at a company level fails. The power of the people we pride ourselves on at a state level fails to take hold in the workplace.
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Nearest Neighbors: Solidarity, startups and convenience(joinreboot.org)
3 points by kurtdev 2y ago|1 comments
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by kurtdev 2y ago
I found this post by Carlos really interesting. Seeing the file size of the data for the whole world is kind of like seeing the size of all of wikipedia compressed, it fills me with amazement. Much of the things that have been built is in t
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NIMBY Rails – A development retrospective (2020)(carloscarrasco.com)
3 points by kurtdev 2y ago|1 comments
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by kurtdev 2y ago
The book predates the song and album by about 7 years, so the album name references the book. Postman even mentioned the fact in his 1995 book "The end of education"
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by kurtdev 2y ago
Wow, I just love interactive blog posts like this. For grids I can really recommend just playing around with grid areas in a tool like https://grid.layoutit.com/ I've been using the site to plan my grid layouts for a c
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by kurtdev 2y ago
I dont know why but this story always makes me laugh. It is genuinely well written and mixes casual insanity with humour so well that I cannot help but laugh at it every time. Hope y'all enjoy it too!
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I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out(vice.com)
3 points by kurtdev 2y ago|2 comments
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by kurtdev 3y ago
Oh nice, didn't realize HeartBeast switched to Godot. When I first got into game dev with GameMaker Studio about 8 years ago I used to watch his videos a lot to learn, I guess now I'm gonna repeat that cycle for a different engine
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by kurtdev 3y ago
I'm gonna start myself with something I got into again recently. I got back into game development as a hobby a couple of weeks ago (sadly just after Ludum Dare ended) and have since been learning Godot to make the switch away from Uni
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Ask HN: What are you passionate about at the moment?
370 points by kurtdev 3y ago|842 comments
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by kurtdev 3y ago
Deconstruct what you already know into smaller parts until you reach "atomic" knowledge (i.e. things that cannot be reduced into other factors). At every step ask yourself "Why is this the case?". Do this enough and you
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by kurtdev 3y ago
I feel like the difficulty of finding social networks offline is an effect of the availability of online connections, something that I noticed a lot during the pandemic. Whenever I talk to people who are much older than me it strikes me how
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by kurtdev 3y ago
Yeah that's what I thought as well, especially when he mentioned how people before would just sit in front of the tv instead of online. Still, I'm not sure if it makes a difference how easily accessible the specific bad habits ar
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I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet (2013)(theverge.com)
3 points by kurtdev 3y ago|6 comments
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by kurtdev 3y ago
What I ask myself about this article is if and how the outcome would be different almost 10 years on. "Digital Detox" of course is a thing but rarely if ever does it go beyond a couple weeks, maybe a month. Would we now also see t