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by qrush 5mo ago
One fun thing I learned here is that advertisers won’t even consider a site or game that’s not launched yet…not even Google AdSense would approve me. I am tracking this though and obviously want to make number go up.
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by qrush 5mo ago
Thanks! And yeah I’m definitely going to work on more polish and animations, this all needs a big pass on fidelity. Really appreciate this feedback.
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by qrush 5mo ago
Good callout. My idea here was that you commonly get a garbage hand to start the game, and this helps you build a better first word.
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by qrush 5mo ago
It's the ? button on each game, and on the new game screen. I'll make it more obvious. Also here: http://wordtrak.com/manual I punted on dragging tiles since it felt janky...considering revisiting though.
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by qrush 5mo ago
My main limiting factor was dealing with two app store submissions. I'm already using expo.dev as a cross-platform solution.
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by qrush 5mo ago
Fixed (it's a Dwarf Fortress reference)! And yes colors aren't my strong suit...will think about it!
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by qrush 5mo ago
Wrong on all 3 fronts, sorry! It's Rails with vanilla JS/CSS for web. Expo.dev on the native side.
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by qrush 5mo ago
I've been using my real human hands and brain to respond to this thread. Woof. Maybe look at it this way: With a full time job and 3 kids at home, I was able to learn a ton about shipping apps with new tools available over the last few
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by qrush 5mo ago
I kept (some of) the profanity in, kind of on purpose...because it's hilarious! I did remove some extreme slurs though.
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by qrush 5mo ago
Great questions, thanks - there is a tutorial! There's a "bag" just like Scrabble and you're both drawing tiles from it. You can see the bag too, definitely should be visible during swapping, great call. CPU players hav
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by qrush 5mo ago
Yeah sometimes the draws are tough, and especially without a shared board. I've addressed this by adding more tiles than scrabble to the bag (I'll be doing a followup post about dictionaries, tile distributions, point testing, and
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by qrush 5mo ago
Oops - my son's face is large though! I'm not seeing it on my devices or Chrome/Safari...
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Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak(wordtrak.com)
81 points by qrush 5mo ago|51 comments
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by qrush 5mo ago
Am I reading this right that OpenAI is not using Livekit for WebRTC/audio anymore?
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by qrush 6mo ago
My playdate has been collecting dust since I got it and the initial few games I tried didn't stick. Any suggestions on good games for it?
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by qrush 6mo ago
I'm working on a new 1v1 scrabble/wordle style game - iOS and Android versions are cooking as well, thanks to Expo.dev. A friend described it as "scrabble that doesn't drag", and I've had a few friends and fami
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by qrush 6mo ago
Apparently there's more work than just clicking "Recover Vessel" after splashdown!
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by qrush 6mo ago
hot take: I would accept ads under every PR comment in GitHub if we could get back to 3 or 4 nines of reliability.
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by qrush 7mo ago
I’m working on a new word game, called Wordtrak: https://wordtrak.com (Sign up and I’ll send out beta codes tomorrow!) I’ve had a few friends call it “fun”, and one said it’s “Scrabble that doesn’t drag”. Working on some social
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by qrush 8mo ago
This is a pretty painful AI read, also thanks for reminding me about all the trauma this past year.
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by qrush 8mo ago
Where else will finance bros get quarter zips from??
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by qrush 9mo ago
One of my favorite youtube channels right now is What's Going On With Shipping, hosted by a former merchant mariner. Here's a 101 primer if you are learning too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5FR6_6kpG8
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by qrush 11mo ago
RIP Mr. TIFF. Hoping we continue to document these incredible engineers and their work before it's lost to the sands of time/pits of LLM muck.
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by qrush 1y ago
Sounds like DynamoDB is going to continue to be a hard dependency for EC2, etc. I at least appreciate the transparency and hearing about their internal systems names.
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by qrush 1y ago
I grew up close to Niagara Falls and my dad was a firefighter there for ~30 years who had to practice rappelling down the gorge to save people (which sadly happens too frequently). His favorite story from the last time they "shut the f
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by qrush 1y ago
AWS's own management console sign-in isn't even working. This is a huge one. :(
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by qrush 1y ago
I'm truly hoping for a reasonable resolution on all sides for this situation. IMO Ruby is too small, and shrinking compared to Python and JS/TS especially in the AI era, to be able to afford any splintering of efforts.
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by qrush 1y ago
I thought this was about my favorite sparkling water brand at first glance.
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by qrush 1y ago
PoC / more info about this bug: https://github.com/b1n4r1b01/n-days/blob/main/CVE-2025-43300... https://github.com/h4xnz/CVE-2025-43300-Exploit
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CVE-2025-43300: "an sophisticated attack against specific individuals"(nvd.nist.gov)
5 points by qrush 1y ago|1 comments

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