JamesBaxter (u/JamesBaxter)

JamesBaxter commented on Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)? · Posted by u/danparsonson

JamesBaxter · 3 years ago

We worry about the “bus problem” when it comes to one dev operations but should we also worry about the “dev getting bored” problem?

I’m not sure what’s happened to Pinboard I hope Maciej is alright.

I tweeted him ages ago asking about if the pin a URL page could become responsive so I don’t have to use a separate mobile app. He’s responded with a joke. Years later and I’m still using the mobile app.

JamesBaxter commented on Continuous Load Testing slack.engineering/continu... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

I’ve tried building in load tests to releases and it’s been a headache so far: Test environments cost as much as prod environments suddenly (using premium versions of infrastructure to meet requirements)

Pipelines take a lot longer to run (because the load test environments are expensive we have one or two and serialize test runs on them to stop test runs stepping on each other, but the teardowns are slow, especially on failed runs)

To keep the test run fast we limit them to about 5 minutes but this creates unrealistic expectations of how fast our code would actually need to scale.

But it is nice knowing which changes have broken the load test. Hunting them down is so painful.

What I’d to have is proper metrics showing how close we are to our Non Functional Requirements over time to make it easier to sell “Performance stories” ahead of breaking the NFR rather than just fixing it as we break.

JamesBaxter commented on 1960s Bike Buses Used to Transport Cyclists Under the Thames londonist.com/london/tran... · Posted by u/lonelyasacloud

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

I still can’t believe that the Silvertown Tunnel, the next Thames crossing will require a modern version of this rather than have a dedicated cycle space.

I appreciate cycling close to cars in a tunnel won’t be pleasant but we are slowly moving away from the internal combustion engine, the air will get better and better as electric gets more popular.

JamesBaxter commented on Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting godotengine.org/article/g... · Posted by u/arduinomancer

runevault · 4 years ago

Is dotnet 6 support slated to release with godot 4 or will it be a post-initial release timeframe? Last I heard it wasn't ready yet but I have not been looking too closely. Having latest dotnet would get me interested in trying godot again over downloading Unity onto my new laptop when I get back to gamedev.

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

It’s been merged into master [0] I think that means it’s coming with 4.

One of my minor concerns is that exporting to iOS/Android might not be coming straight away but I’ll have to play with it to find out!

[0] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/64089

JamesBaxter commented on Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting godotengine.org/article/g... · Posted by u/arduinomancer

zubspace · 4 years ago

I am really looking forward to Godot 4. GDScript improved a lot.

I'm mostly excited about callables (function pointers), easier signal handling in combination with await (former yields) and an improved tweening system. The scripting environment inside of the editor with inbuilt documentation, code completion and debugger is really an achievement.

The only thing I miss are static typing and refactoring tools. You can use type hints, but you need to fall back to dynamic typing at some places for example because there are no generic collections.

Therefore I'm quite excited about the dotnet6 branch being merged into main a few days ago [1]. This is a huge step and will probably make some unity developers consider Godot for their next game.

Also there's GDExtension, the successor of GDNative, which will make it easier to integrate C++ code [2].

I could never imagine myself using Visual Scripting, because you can express yourself so much easier in Code.

[1] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/64089

[2] https://godotengine.org/article/introducing-gd-extensions

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

Trying to get my Godot project to a stable enough place that I can try early dotnet6 builds.

It’s been quite fun abstracting as much game logic as possible into testable class libraries so I’m hoping it won’t be a bad migration for me.

Really looking forward to seeing if dependency injection will be easier

JamesBaxter commented on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? · Posted by u/tunnuz

jffry · 4 years ago

> I’d much prefer just being able to use the site on mobile

When's the last time you tried that? Sometime in the past year ish (can't remember exact dates), it got updated to scale properly on narrow screens, and I've had no problem using it on mobile since then.

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

Using it on an iPhone 12 Mini-Firefox and the “Add Bookmark” screen is a tiny form in an ocean of white emptiness.

https://ibb.co/jZgzQnF

JamesBaxter commented on Ask HN: Is there a spiritual successor to del.icio.us? · Posted by u/tunnuz

voltagex_ · 4 years ago

pinboard.in but Maciej appears to be offline (?) at the moment and archiving is a bit broken (for me). Hope he's OK.

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

I really like Pinboard and Maciej but Pinboard feels forgotten.

Even the Pinboard blog URL [0]he linked to in his leaving Twitter tweet[1]is showing the Apache Default page to me.

I know there are a couple of good mobile apps for Pinboard but I’d much prefer just being able to use the site on mobile

[0] http://blog.pinboard.in/ [1] https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1476079701978345472?s=20...

JamesBaxter commented on Tell HN: Spotify Premium is full of Ads · Posted by u/ushakov

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

Stuff like Spotify trying to ram their podcast platform down my throat is pretty obnoxious. I wish I could turn off podcasts.

It looks especially bad when some of the podcasts are unofficial audiobooks releasing for instance a person reading a chapter of Harry Potter every day.

JamesBaxter commented on Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/05/... · Posted by u/hddherman

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

I’ve used laptops for this purpose in the past but I always disliked having my HDDs connected over USB. I was concerned that all my storage felt like it was active all the time even when not being accessed, I was always concerned my drives would burn out faster but I never had any data to back it up.

JamesBaxter commented on London’s Lost Ringways worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/bananapear

JamesBaxter · 4 years ago

Interesting to read in the current context of the Silvertown tunnel currently being built despite complaints from both sides of the river and an admission from TFL that it may make traffic worse south of the river.

Not to mention the fact that cyclists can’t use the tunnel…