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I'm about to relaunch a 2D MMO title I made in 1999-2001 with new graphics. It's all in Java and uses MySQL. Should be fine! :D Don't know if I would publish the source though, unless it's successful and people want to mod it.
Also, have a look at Canvas Legacy if you want some inspiration.
I published something once which was three lines of code. It was useful; anyone could do it, but nobody did (a modem dialing script, of all things). The (often multipage) requests for releases to publish were an unexpected annoyance; I always tried to respond politely that I didn't feel it manifested the requisite originality to be a protected work, and that if they printed the email out and sent it to me with a self-addressed stamped envelope I'd sign it and send it back.
I publish https://github.com/m3047/trualias (checksummed on-the-fly email aliases) even though I consider the code far from perfect: it works, it defines a grammar (which I'm happy with), and it has (pretty comprehensive) tests for that grammar. The most important aspect in my opinion is the grammar and a working proof of concept. (To my bemusement it also has the most stars of any of my projects on GitHub, go figure.)
Even if it has "low 4:3 resolution" that is not necessarily a problem; some people might prefer that.
I just published the source code for the first app I ever built, all the way back in 2003: https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster It "turns your Mac into a $2,000 alarm clock." I originally made it because I had endless amounts of trouble waking up for my morning classes in college, and found that the only alarm that could get me up was a subwoofer right underneath my bed. So I hooked a 2.1 speaker system up to m…
I realize that this may not be in the spirit of the question being asked, but could this not be done with the following? 0 6 * * 1-5 open /path/to/bangin/tunes.mp3 I'm all about reinventing the wheel, but that's a lot of code to replace cron :-D
Well, that depends. Does your shell oneliner have a GUI? You're also not playing an iTunes playlist, so you'll probably need to parse the ITL file
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I realize that this may not be in the spirit of the question being asked, but could this not be done with the following? 0 6 * * 1-5 open /path/to/bangin/tunes.mp3 I'm all about reinventing the wheel, but that's a lot of code to replace cron :-D
> could this not be done with the following Well, that depends. Does your shell oneliner have a GUI? You're also not playing an iTunes playlist, so you'll probably need to parse the ITL file
Yeah, I'm not proud of the way I wrote the code 17 years ago (historic-alldaydj-1) but it's fascinating looking so far back and comparing it what I'd deliver today. If someone finds use for it, fair play to them.
On that note, I probably ought to dig out the RoTs (tapes) from my days as a radio DJ on a long defunct station...
I'm about to relaunch a 2D MMO title I made in 1999-2001 with new graphics. It's all in Java and uses MySQL. Should be fine! :D Don't know if I would publish the source though, unless it's successful and people want to mod it.
Also, I don't know if this helps: But I consider myself a bad programmer, and assume everyone writes better code than me. It's probably not universally true, but I also don't feel ashamed of any given work I do: I tell people liberally I'm bad at coding but it works (if it works). It also puts my mindset in a great place to try to learn from everyone else I interact with.
One project I shared not too long ago I announced by describing it as a "crime" against the platform, and almost certainly "a really bad idea".
Just ship your code.
If you're worried about it reflecting poorly on you, make a new github account (asylum-open-source or whatever) and publish under that?
The code I write now will eventually be code I'm embarrassed by as well.
This is true for most people, I think, so I don't let it bother me. The effect is a sign of growth.