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This looks really nice. Given the target age I imagine there's not a heap of text, so you could probably get away with LLM translations. Be sure to share it again in the coming mon…

This is precisely why I'm building Breaka Club: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids I also attempted to make a game with my eldest daughter initially. Unsurpr…

Been dealing with this a bit at Breaka Club. We teach kids to code with a modded version of Overcooked 2!. We stream OC2[1] with our mod preinstalled over WebRTC. This ensures that…

They are. There's a LOT of web games on itch.io. It's just the typical challenge with over saturated markets: publicity.

It's a really tricky one, but I think it's the right call for Godot, but probably not for other projects. I'm the current maintainer of GodotJS (TypeScript bindings for Godot). LLM…

Still plugging away at Breaka Club, where kids take photos of their hand drawn art and build games using it. Starts out as no-code, photograph an AprilTag and it imbues the image w…

It's really not. If I'm at the point of contributing a PR to a dependency, I've already identified the root cause in detail. There's no way a change log should be going into that l…

How... how is this not obviously the absolute very most useful information? When I encounter a bug in a dependency of mine. Before I worry about submitting a PR, the very first thi…

My apologies, I missed this on first read due to the indentation style. That said, I don't agree on the commentary. Why on Earth are people not writing commit messages for their re…

Odd. The main reason to use this style of commit message is for CI/CD automation. EDIT: I didn't see this covered in the article on my first pass. It is covered though. My apologie…

I'll definitely give you Rosetta, and even more so Rosetta 2. Spotlight too, at least in principle, but it has had its fair share of dodgy behavior over the years. I'm not really s…

Live rankings currently have Mac OS X first... h... how? Apple make so so much wonderful hardware! They always have. Their software on the other hand is near universally awful. I l…

I must admit, this is one area I've found LLMs to be surprisingly strong. They're REALLY good at reverse engineering obscure platforms, languages, game engines; and quickly throwin…

Thanks, Eric; for this, and for my start as a software engineer — my first commercial development work was consulting as an 18 year old building games with C4. I'm really glad Slug…

Thanks! Breaka Club is still very early days. Current focus is in person, but the plan is to offer an online club experience also. I'm not quite sure what that will look like just …

TC39 decorators emit just landed in tsgo about 24 hours ago. Hopefully they're available in Vite 8 soon. I'm using them in GodotJS https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS/commit/a4bafef…

Although this is a facetious take, instructing a robot to follow recipes is a fantastic introduction to coding. I added a visual scripting layer to Overcooked so kids can program r…

Thanks. Just tuned my daughter's guitar. Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.

Continuing to make fantastic progress on Breaka Club, where we teach kids to code, be creative and make games: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids The recent …

Somewhat coincidentally, MoonSharp (the scripting engine Moongate based their Lua runtime on) is alive and kicking again. There hasn't been a release in ~10 years, but I published …

I'm building a modern platform for kids to hand draw their own games: https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids Currently supports RPG mechanics, with digital card …

* Continuing development on Breaka Club ( https://breaka.club/blog/why-were-building-clubs-for-kids ) — Turning kids from consumers into creators. * GodotJS — https://github.com/go…

I'm far from an expert in this area. I've also tried Bria RMBG 1.4, Bria RMBG 2.0, older BiRefNet versions, and I think another I forgot the name of. The fact I'm removing backgrou…