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Currently fleshing out my boggle-like empire. serpentinegame.com. I've got ELO rated rooms, a daily room, and a new infinite room. I've been doing this since 2008 but recently rewr…

I built on online multiplayer boggle game back in 2008 that somehow drew a lot of users, many of whom still play every day after 17 years. About a year ago I started a rewrite from…

https://SerpentineGame.com brings in close to that with advertisements and premium subscriptions. It is a clone of a game called Tangleword that is itself a clone of Boggle. I orig…

Whenever this kind of disagreement happens with my team, we put it to a vote and then the winning convention is enforced across the codebase from then on. There are tons of things …

In the old days the user would submit the form, the validation would happen on the server, then return a result. If the result was a failure, you would render the errors on a new p…

I did try Firefox 57 on my Android phone and found the scrolling to be unpleasant with lots of artifacts and stuttering. It's still a much better experience with the mobile version…

It would be interesting to try to cobble together a Linux distribution with a rust userland, using coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils ) and over time building more and…

I only skimmed the article but I agree with the conclusion. I evaluated both HAProxy and Nginx for a high-volume/low-latency load balancer cluster (500k requests/s) and HAProxy sim…

I've got two NUCs, which I use as HTPCs running Fedora. They're fantastic machines. Really tiny, quiet, and plenty powerful enough for HD movies and light gaming/emulation.

The thing is, all of these details are implemented in the git command line tool, not in a library. So it is pretty difficult to write a tool that works exactly the same way the com…

This is exactly my stance on the matter. Don't litter the code with unnecessary comments that will never get acted upon. Instead, make a story in your bug tracker and act upon it.

Getting 60TB of usable space in the cloud is pretty expensive. Honestly I have no idea why he needs so much space, but if he does need it all, he probably didn't make out too badly…

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As someone who applauds this pivot, I never saw much value in the whole convergence idea. Why would I want my laptop and phone to be the same device? This seems to follow the misgu…

I know you probably meant "gold standard" but I was amused thinking about what a golf standard might mean ;)

I don't have much ideology behind going with microservices vs. monolith, but what we've done on some recent projects is organize our code into modules that only communicate with ea…

Yeah absolutely. I'd love a free online solution from the government as it would make my life easier. So far, I haven't been willing to pay out to Intuit or HRBlock for a slight ti…

I file my taxes for free, easily, by printing out the forms at home and doing them by hand on paper. The only cost to me is for the envelopes and postage. I've done some pretty com…

The person responsible for this makes his money on craigslist, probably buying and selling old appliances. So he probably has a lot to gain by getting people to buy old "better" ap…

I was going to mention this as well. It is worth making it clear that the article is written by a SF staffing company (which the article does do).

I just put up a list here: https://statusbeacon.io/service-list

Hey, currently no I don't have that list in a public place. So far I have 43 services integrated, and most of those are fairly big ones like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, etc. I was th…

I just recently launched a statuspage aggregator at https://statusbeacon.io which has been pretty cool to work on. I've also got an online multiplayer boggle game that has made me …

Hey all, just to give some context, this is a side project I've been working on for about a month and a half. I've gotten it to a pretty good place, it's past MVP stage but definit…