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Yep, this is what I use as well. Works well! (In my case, I have it just running as a CDN in front of Wasabi, which actually stores the images - likely even cheaper if most of the …

> (I don't know what to do if another change interrupts the first but it's a rare case and can probably be handled imperfectly.) This kind of lerp trick, while imperfect, is useful…

Hi! Thank you. The exported games run as ordinary HTML pages, so hopefully they're hitting a minimum bar for this kind of accessibility already (tab will cycle through links, enter…

hello, creator here, just seeing this thread now. and yes, to be honest i agree with everything you're saying here. it's needed attention for a good while, i've just been busy with…

As the creator of Downpour, I have to say: yes! both of these tools are great. I'd also shout out Bitsy and Twine as two phenomenal simple game making tools.

Hello, the creator here. It's a tricky subject, I agree - especially because as a trans person who likes lots of messy transgressive art, I don't want to shut down that kind of sel…

Either you make an account and upload your game, getting a downpour.games link you can share. Or you can export the game as a self contained webpage to host elsewhere (it's a zip w…

Creator here - sorry about this! I've found a few people are running into this, and I'm not sure what the cause is - going to be looking into adding password auth as a workaround, …

> Typically, the selection of a programming language is predetermined in brownfield projects, leaving little room for choosing the "ideal" programming language for migration unless…

There was that whole thing where a court said a lawyer has to check all of his tweets, Musk shrugged it off, and the court did nothing about it.

It's worth noting that "single-writer" refers to a single machine, not a single process. Multiple programs can write to the same SQLite DB at once (although contention can be a pro…

fwiw, this post was inspired by a twitter thread i created yesterday ( https://twitter.com/v21/status/1301451641699340288 ), where i collected examples of people getting annoyed th…

the article we're discussing this under is explicitly about advocating for such smaller spaces, and arguing against having to make everything scale to cover the entire world. not a…

Well, they're building a browser engine...

At the risk of sneering at science for it's own sake: why is that the most important question? What extent is programming an innate skill doesn't seem to have many obvious utilitie…

I did read it, and I also read Goldacre's rebuttal, which was more persuasive.

And sometimes, if they like you, they pay out early.

And when the new update comes out, all the user reviews get wiped/obsoleted.

You can lose robust things as easily as fragile things. Which is a facile point, but still, this all just stuff.