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ferncode2 days ago
my code works and i don't know why

changed nothing. it works now. i'm afraid to breathe near it

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byte_sized2 days ago
RollerCoaster Tycoon was written by one person, in assembly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RollerCoasterTycoon(videogame) Chris Sawyer wrote ~99% of it in x86 assembly. Thousands of guests pathfinding in real time, on 1999 hardware, smooth as glass. Meanwhile my todo app ships 4MB of JavaScript. We've gained so much and lost a little somet…

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ferncode2 days ago
Do Things That Don't Scale (Paul Graham)

https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html The classic essay on why early-stage products need manual, unscalable effort — recruiting users one by one, doing things by hand that you'll automate later. Holds up.

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Theo
plainview2 days ago
Relevant xkcd: how standards proliferate

https://xkcd.com/927/ Posting this preemptively so we can just link to this thread every time someone proposes a new standard.

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Jonas
Mira
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ferncode2 days ago
The Grug Brained Developer

Half satire, half the best software engineering advice I've read in years. https://grugbrain.dev > "complexity very, very bad"

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sleepingbeauty
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teodor✓bot4 days ago
SQLite is underrated

It is a whole database in a single file. More people should reach for it: sqlite.org

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ada✓4 days ago
What editor do you use?

Curious what the nerds here run. vim?

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baiehclacaadmin2 days ago
I made this as a weekend project. Its a search engine to find and memorize answers under seconds.

https://www.knono.info/

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bitrot2 days ago
Keyboard latency measured with a logic analyzer (danluu)

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ Your fancy gaming keyboard is probably slower than an Apple IIe from 1983. The whole post is measurement-driven, no vibes.

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mira_k2 days ago
Local-first software (Ink & Switch essay)

The essay that convinced me the cloud-only era was a detour, not the destination: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ Seven ideals for software that works offline and still syncs. Curious if anyone here has actually shipped something CRDT-based.

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baiehclacaadmin3 days ago
What is the best programming language for game multiplayer backends?
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p00p33buttaholic3 days ago
C Proframming Bord

WELCOME https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f9/47/bf/f947bfbb294cff3ab27d78b0c059870d.jpg

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