raffomania's comments

raffomania | 2 years ago | on: Knakk: Free and Open Source Godot 4 Game

We need more release-quality open source games! With this project, I hope to show some real-world use cases of Godot 4 features. I've worked hard to make the docs and code understandable and well organized.

raffomania | 3 years ago | on: Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?

Interesting - you're describing my experience with Unity, and I ultimately switched to Godot because of my frustration with Unity.

raffomania | 4 years ago | on: Reddit files to go public

I've been following lemmy [0] for a while, a federated reddit alternative in the same spirit as mastodon. It's still very small, but I think as monetization pressure on reddit increases, people will look for other places to post and this might be one of them :)

edit: add the link [0] https://join-lemmy.org/

raffomania | 4 years ago | on: Orca – esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers

Most recently, he's actually rewriting all his tools in a forth-inspired language he's designed himself: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/uxn.html

raffomania | 4 years ago | on: Elm Compiler Written in Elm

One of their stated goals is to show people how to write a compiler in Elm, and another is to allow programmers familiar with Elm to hack on the Elm compiler without needing to learn Haskell.

raffomania | 5 years ago | on: StimulusReflex, or LiveView for Rails

To me, this looks like one of the few real ways out of the madness that is modern frontend development. Excited to see the approach gaining adoption!

raffomania | 6 years ago | on: Have a personal web site

You make it sound like a big audience is the only thing that matters. The linked post talks about a personal website as a digital identity. Giving people a link so they can find you online is a good reason to have a website, even today.

Besides that, making your own website is rewarding in many other ways - Being creative, getting thoughts out of your head, pinning down certain arguments you tend to repeat, etc.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: Bookworm: A Simple, Focused eBook Reader

Calibre is a complex beast that has a bad track record regarding security and will keep using python 2 even after its deprecation.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: Bye, Bye, Google

For anyone interested in more alternatives, https://switching.social is a well-written and maintained directory.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: One of the world’s most visited websites that nobody is aware of (2017)

For one thing, you might not want to risk being in jail.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync

If you include this code in firefox itself, you can review the code and verify that the official firefox binaries use that code.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: Viral “Manspreading” video is said to be staged Russian propaganda

I find it interesting that this is financed by the EU.

My first reaction to this was a lot of skepticism - the article makes a lot of bold claims without backing any of them up. I was ready to write this off as another sleazy mud-throwing operation when I found the official EU site [0] describing the team and their goals - including "Effective communication and promotion of EU policies towards the Eastern Neighbourhood". The biased writing and this "promotion of policies" really make me think this is no better than the "fake news" everyone complains about.

[0] https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/21...

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: All software sucks (2011)

I can't believe how rude the comments in this thread were. I generally agree that we have too much complexity in software, but I also feel that often people take the "minimal" software notion to an extreme level of elitism, excluding and attacking people for reasons not related to the original goal to make better software.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: What I've learned since quitting Elm

I agree, this is definitely a problem, especially for more ambitious use cases. I've done quite well without e.g. typeclasses, though.

raffomania | 7 years ago | on: What I've learned since quitting Elm

I'm using elm so I don't have to learn any of these things. I enjoy knowing almost all parts of the language. Also, in 95% of the cases, it provides enough flexibility to solve the task at hand.

raffomania | 8 years ago | on: Slack's bait and switch

This would be quite the workaround though, completely evading the root of the problem (slack).

raffomania | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Memento Mori – a simple stoic reminder

Nice! I'm currently reading 'A guide to the good life' and am always looking for ways to incorporate stoicism into my daily life.

I'd love a 'distraction free' mode concentrating on only the timer (maybe even removing the 'hours', 'minutes', 'seconds' texts) :)

raffomania | 8 years ago | on: The Subscription App Paradox

I'm hopeful that a Patreon-like donation model will prove successful for apps/products with a passionate userbase. Ulysses, as described in the article, does seem to have a pretty active community with a lot of people willing to pay.

raffomania | 8 years ago | on: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

Has anyone read up on the proof-of-stakes algorithms mentioned in this article? I didn't hear of those before.

raffomania | 8 years ago | on: WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm

according to the article, the balances of the bitcoin addresses collecting the ransoms are

15.13562354 BTC = $26410 13.78022431 BTC = $24045 5.98851225 BTC = $17361

Assuming $300 per ransom, this works out to a total of 226 victims who paid. this seems a little low compared to the huge amount of infected devices.