I’m always thrilled when someone posts something new about Stunts. I had such a good time with that game in college. :)
Readit NewsThomW commented on SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts" marnetto.net/2025/02/20/b... · Posted by u/alberto-m
ThomW commented on Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots lambdacreate.com/posts/68... · Posted by u/archargelod
It ticks me off that bots no longer respect robots.txt files at all. The authors of these things are complete assholes. If you’re one of them, gfy.
ThomW commented on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt huffpost.com/entry/utah-s... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
It absolutely floors me that children are forced by law to attend school and they don't automatically get a hot meal. That's irresponsible.
ThomW commented on How to help us build open source Pebble software ericmigi.com/blog/how-to-... · Posted by u/cmbailey
As someone who didn't know much about or ever own a Pebble, can someone sell me on it and explain why it was so popular?
It was really the first usable smartwatch in my mind.
My absolute favorite thing was that it gave developers the ability to create custom watch faces. I wrote a bunch of them and absolutely loved the dumb thing.
ThomW commented on Minecraft with object impermanence aiweirdness.com/minecraft... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
I'm guessing the author didn't play Cyberpunk at launch -- the cars and pedestrians would blink out of existence if you turned around. I couldn't help but think that Rockstar had figured this out 19 years prior in GTA3. :/
ThomW commented on Show HN: I made a mini golf in my lunch time paper-golf.netlify.app/... · Posted by u/heyarviind2
Wow, someone just sent me this post because I also made a golf game inspired by Gladden Design's this week! :D I made my own twist on it a bit, making it use a hex grid because I didn't like how diagonal moves were treated the same distance as orthogonal moves and I added bonuses and skill shots to give the player a reason to take a non-straight line path to the hole and made it a daily game but having a wordle style share score button. I'm surprised how many people saw that video and also all had the same idea that "this would make a great digital game idea" https://golf.jbat.ch/
Hex tiles are a really smart improvement on the game. I do kind of miss the little trees instead of just the dark green color though. :D
I also wonder if the graphics wouldn't make playing easier for color blind folks. :)
ThomW commented on Talking over a wall changed my direction as a programmer thecodist.com/how-talking... · Posted by u/fagnerbrack
I feel super fortunate to be a part of that generation where screwing around at home could lead directly to employment. I taught myself Atari BASIC on my 800 and took a 286 IBM compatible to college where I was a music major. I dropped out and landed working for an industrial automation company because I knew how to write dumb little programs. A couple years later I was the sole guy programming robots for them in a structured BASIC language.
ThomW commented on FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges worthrises.org/pressrelea... · Posted by u/Avshalom
Prisons need to be run by the government and aim for rehabilitation. For-profit prisons shouldn't exist. What's the incentive for a company to rehabilitate prisoners? It'd ruin repeat business and eat into profits. :/
ThomW commented on Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle hidden-mirrors.com... · Posted by u/james_marks
Safari in MacOS just shows a screen full of "Scroll down" after the initial "Let's Go" is clicked. :/
ThomW commented on I made a new backplane for my consumer NAS codedbearder.com/posts/f3... · Posted by u/granra
I would have bought some velcro strips with adhesive and stuck it to the side of the box. lol