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ChrisGermano

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About ChrisGermano

Dev by day, dev-for-hire by night

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    It's subjective, but I love what some people come up with in the Code Golf Stackexchange ( https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/ ).

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    Doing less, more productive, but I know its limits. I treat is as my "little assistant" - able to accomplish a lot but without the experience or cognition to make good decisions in…

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    Comment #45849316

    It's not exactly what you're looking for but Game Dev Tycoon is very enjoyable if you want to experience a video game startup. Checks most boxes, not the most realistic but enough.…

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    I've been building https://smartrik.com which is heavily vibe coded. The entire platform is built out but far from production-ready. Prompts were very compartmentalized and specifi…

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    Comment #45605409

    On a similar note my parents didn't love the [AS] shows with more narrative but always sat down to watch stuff like 12oz Mouse with me. I still enjoy that kind of loose narrative c…

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    Comment #45568840

    I'm building a platform to help employees prepare for large high-value meetings and presentations with note taking and on-demand AI summarization and sentiment analysis to best pre…

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    Comment #44951099

    Not sure if schizophrenia or attempting creepypasta

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    Comment #44876194

    Being the resident JavaScript/Node expert on my last team put me in a great position for quasi-leadership and opened up some doors later on. The greatest skillset in my tech career…

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    Comment #44723599

    Hit some speed bumps but still building out a Discord-based digital TCG platform. Discord felt like a natural social context for an accessible and customizable experience. Users ca…

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    Comment #44509888

    Previously I developed crypto-centric web apps and games for clients, which eventually pivoted to security testing and bug bounties (several apps were in a legal grey area and will…

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    Comment #44299153

    If AI can replace my job (mid/senior level developer) a lot of people will be in trouble as well. Realistically I would take whatever available retail job is closest and start chur…

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    Comment #44299032

    My team has faced issues like this and other than ensuring any secrets are removed from your code and stored in a .gitignore'd config file (if you really need them to live so close…

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    Comment #44139017

    I like the design and what the game's trying to achieve, but something was slightly off. Even on topics I'm well versed in (eg. sports brands) seeing 9 words at once, on the clock,…

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    Comment #44135710

    Getting feedback and handling (potentially automating) social media

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    Comment #44128383

    I've been working on a basic TCG platform to run on Discord servers. Community owners can build card collections while players can earn credits, open packs, trade up cards, and fus…

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    Comment #44128286

    That's hilarious, I don't remember that one at all

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    Comment #44107846

    Years back I wrote brainfuck in python to just use various A's and named it Screaming. It's dumb but fun. Hello World: AAAAAAAAAAÁàAAAAAAAàAAAAAAAAAAàAAAàAááááaÀàAAâàAâAAAAAAAââAAA…