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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by mysterydip »

dreadnaut wrote: post #54

I run a 22yo online competition for a 32yo DOS racing game: Stunts, or 4D Sports Driving in some countries. The competition has spawned a long-lived community which includes reverse engineering, game patches, new cars, alternative engines, a few world meetings, and multiple other competitions. - https://zak.stunts.hu - https://wiki.stunts.hu/wiki/Custom_cars - https://forum.stunts.hu/index.php?board=90.0&label=stunts…

I've seen this game mentioned countless times in the retro communities, but I never had it as a kid. Keen to give it a go, thanks!

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Post by RunSet »

spoils19 wrote: post #18

- Pure HTML / CSS / vanilla JS sites. It's a shame that it's turned into a niche scene, but I'm always a fan of inspecting sites that don't bloat themselves with unnecessary frameworks. - Sites that work without JavaScript. Even better than the first, it's always a pleasure to see when a site is made properly for a change, without the toxicity of JavaScript that pervades the world wide web (WWW) as we know it.

> Sites that work without JavaScript.

Perhaps you will like this:

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Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by halfcat »

jw_cook wrote: post #113
spoils19 wrote: post #18

- Pure HTML / CSS / vanilla JS sites. It's a shame that it's turned into a niche scene, but I'm always a fan of inspecting sites that don't bloat themselves with unnecessary frameworks. - Sites that work without JavaScript. Even better than the first, it's always a pleasure to see when a site is made properly for a change, without the toxicity of JavaScript that pervades the world wide web (WWW) as we know it.

Are there any particular communities or groups for this you can recommend? Here are a few I've discovered that I've really been enjoying lately: https://tildeverse.org (EDIT: apparently they don't like being linked to from HN; copy and paste the link instead of clicking it) https://indieweb.org https://neocities.org I think the main focus of those communities is recapturing the spirit of the (arguably more fun) inter…

I’ve found the HTMX community to fit this, and not in a nostalgic way. It’s a very useful and functional option if you’re wanting to build a reactive site while shipping less JavaScript.

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by adnanaga »

mfrisbie wrote: post #21

Browser extensions. Not quite a website, not quite a mobile app, and surprisingly pervasive. Most people don't realize how incredibly powerful they are, even with manifest v3. I almost fell out of my chair when I found out there were no books on how to build them, so I wrote one: https://www.buildingbrowserextensions.com/ It was incredibly enjoyable to go through the APIs and write about all the different crazy thing…

I absolutely love making chrome extensions - my very first one was creating an extension for tinder.com that would swipe left on anyone with the first name Chad. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chad-free-zone/jia...

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by ckozlowski »

jw_cook wrote: post #143
ckozlowski wrote: post #138

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That tildeverse URL is not going where you think it is...(Currently set to Rickroll.)

Ah, I forgot, it specifically does that when referred from HN. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29449238 Two of the more active communities: https://tilde.team https://tilde.club

Thanks!

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Post by is_true »

tonyarkles wrote: post #191
Karrot_Kream wrote: post #190

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Interesting. Having some friends who write software/hardware for factories, always-on connectivity is definitely not an assumption. I had assumed it would be the same for AgTech but sounds like I'm wrong. What are some of the biggest pain points you've encountered?

Not the poster you’re replying to but I’m also in AgTech. We were at a demo a couple of years ago at a farm. Not a competitor but sort of was doing a demo half a mile north of us. We’d designed for “no connectivity” from day one, including power. Our control station ran on a generator but also had a backup battery to keep the radios alive if the genny dies. Half way through their demo, there was a power outage at the…

"only the paranoid survive"

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by x-complexity »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #10

- Systems that work offline. Partly for practical reasons due to my background working in Agtech companies, as well as logistics in developing countries. But also it's just technically and socially fascinating. How do you detect conflicts? How do you decide what one is? To what extent - if any - can it be resolved automatically? Revisions, event sourcing, CRDTs... there's no one size fits all industry solution and no…

> - Frontend JS minimalism. Any stories about people ditching transpilers, build tools etc appeals to me immensely. My spicy take is that React is not an abstraction above the DOM, it's an abstraction parallel to it.

Been going down this path recently via Svelte & SvelteKit: It's been really fun seeing the network responses of the first load being full HTML for any page (SSR), with JS responses handling transitions in between pages (CSR).

I've even managed to get my SVG image generator to run server-side first before passing over, with any changes handled client-side & with URL changes. Refreshing with the changed parameters renders the newer SVG. :)

Re: Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?

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Post by wrycoder »

mrguyorama wrote: post #123
wrycoder wrote: post #85

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Will the community reform around MSFS2020?

MSFS2020 is straight up infinitely more friendly to novice development. Instead of having to read enterprise documentation for a custom product that is entirely based on binary file types that is very very mid 2000s microsoft, you literally import a standard 3D model file into the engine itself, and manage it with built in dev tools that are only getting better and more powerful, and the vast majority of plumbing to…

Thank you very much - That was very concise and informative!

How does one go about learning more about this kind of programming?

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