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bottlero_cket commented on Neopets.com changed my life (2019) annastreetman.com/2019/05... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap

cj · 24 days ago

Same here!

I’m in my mid-30’s now. In high school I learned HTML because I really wanted to customize the styling of my Guild (I think that’s what it was called).

And then built a neopets fan site and forum which taught me basic business (trading links with other fan sites, hiring/managing forum moderators, and eventually sold the fan site during junior year).

The will to customize my MySpace profile was also a driver for learning HTML.

I sometimes think about this in the context of today’s highly controlled platforms that simply don’t make space for users to customize or do anything outside the platform directly.

bottlero_cket · 24 days ago

There must still be a use case for this in the modern web. TikTok with custom HTML perhaps…

bottlero_cket commented on We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs lalitm.com/fixits-are-goo... · Posted by u/lalitmaganti

Aurornis · 24 days ago

All of the buggy software projects I've been employed to work on have had some version of this rule.

Usually it's implicit, rather than explicit: Nobody tells you to limit work on bugs to 1-2 days, but if you spend an entire week debugging something difficult and don't accumulate any story points in Jira, a cadre of project manager, program managers, and other manager titles you didn't even know existed will descend upon you and ask why you're dragging the velocity down.

Lesson learned: Next time, avoid the hard bugs and give up early if something isn't going to turn into story points for hidden charts that are viewed by more people than you ever thought.

bottlero_cket · 24 days ago

Lesson learned, just avoid the hard bugs, I don’t think that is feasible for most of us!

bottlero_cket commented on Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step markdown-ui.com/... · Posted by u/yaoke259

archerx · 4 months ago

The lengths that people will go to just to not write HTML...

bottlero_cket · 4 months ago

I always wonder if anyone deploys this stuff to prod…

bottlero_cket commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025) · Posted by u/david927

bottlero_cket · 8 months ago

An eBook sever on raspberry pi running nodejs. I had a lot of issues with iCloud not being able to download my books, plus my entire library is almost 1 GB. So, my solution is to serve a list of PDFs over node and allow download of a specific page range.

bottlero_cket commented on Moving fast with the core Vim motions barbarianmeetscoding.com/... · Posted by u/mooreds

scubbo · 3 years ago

I've used my fair share of macros to transform text. Vim's great for that. But that's less than 1% of my work as a developer. Much more often, I'm wanting an IDE to do things like:

* Run/debug code

* Jump to a declaration of a function/variables, or find it's uses

* Extract some code as a function

* Rename a variable (and all uses of it)

I bet vim probably _could_ do all of that with the right plugins - but dedicated IDEs do it out-of-the-box. Even something as simple as indent/dedent a block of code is "click-and-drag, tab/shift-tab" in an IDE, vs. ":<range declaration>s/^[^$]/ /" in vim.

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

Indent? Use a code formatter or just select the lines with visual mode and press >

bottlero_cket commented on Moving fast with the core Vim motions barbarianmeetscoding.com/... · Posted by u/mooreds

jrumbut · 3 years ago

I might be a perfect complement to the grandparent.

I use w b $ and ^ to move horizontally. I like using w and b because then I can hit cw to make a small change. For vertical (I don't really think in terms of horizontal and vertical, I think about it as a streams of "words" and "spaces") I usually do a search (/ or ? to go up or down) or for some files I do 20j like you. Shamefully, I do sometimes use the mouse out of habit from other programs.

I can't remember the last time I used f.

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

f I use second most. It has so many uses all of which could be done with / command, but definitely you come to prefer f. I use f( to scan forward to the next open paren. Then I use di( to delete in parens for example to remove the arguments. Uppercase F does the same but backward up the text. Often I use f, to go to a comma. df, to delete up to the next comma as in removing just 1 argument. The only draw back is that f does not have any repeat shortcut like n for next or . for reapply, those do nothing for f. I should mention also that f works on a single line at a time unlike /

bottlero_cket commented on Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device brilliantmonocle.com/... · Posted by u/TheBlapse

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

Cameras are quickly becoming as ubiquitous and boring as light bulbs. I’m actually more interested in how a light bulb works than some of these projects that are targeted at software developers for learning purposes.

There are tons of these dev hardware projects you can buy which usually are centered around having a camera. “Did you ever want to see in slow motion? Now you can.” “Never miss a moment.” Go ahead a miss the moment. Big foot is fake. There is not much point to this anymore.

I see a lot of projects that hunt out developers as customers, but I can’t get excited for them most of the time. I think Playdate is one of the highest quality of this type of product. Behind that is some of the holographic 3D displays they are making now that use 3D pixels. They can go for $200. Pretty cheap.

Augmented reality is very lame to me. I think most of the hope for useful AR applications has been snuffed out long ago. Its the same question asked a different way, “Why can’t you just google the answer? Why do you need to do x,y,z (go to college, call plumber, whatever)” The answer is, invariably, nobody has the data! A lot of good data is being held hostage or destroyed by greedy corporations. Its a winner take all world. Companies are reluctant to have a brand new game.

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

> Nobody has the data

https://naich.net/wordpress/index.php/ever-wondered-why-plum...

“But the main reason plumbers are well paid is because they know the arcane secrets of plumbing fittings.”

bottlero_cket commented on Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device brilliantmonocle.com/... · Posted by u/TheBlapse

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

Cameras are quickly becoming as ubiquitous and boring as light bulbs. I’m actually more interested in how a light bulb works than some of these projects that are targeted at software developers for learning purposes.

There are tons of these dev hardware projects you can buy which usually are centered around having a camera. “Did you ever want to see in slow motion? Now you can.” “Never miss a moment.” Go ahead a miss the moment. Big foot is fake. There is not much point to this anymore.

I see a lot of projects that hunt out developers as customers, but I can’t get excited for them most of the time. I think Playdate is one of the highest quality of this type of product. Behind that is some of the holographic 3D displays they are making now that use 3D pixels. They can go for $200. Pretty cheap.

Augmented reality is very lame to me. I think most of the hope for useful AR applications has been snuffed out long ago. Its the same question asked a different way, “Why can’t you just google the answer? Why do you need to do x,y,z (go to college, call plumber, whatever)” The answer is, invariably, nobody has the data! A lot of good data is being held hostage or destroyed by greedy corporations. Its a winner take all world. Companies are reluctant to have a brand new game.

bottlero_cket commented on Programming as Play austinhenley.com/blog/pro... · Posted by u/azhenley

Fr0styMatt88 · 3 years ago

I used to love the playful nature of programming on the Commodore 64. I think it was the immediacy of the environment and the screen editor that made it feel that way.

Stuff like PICO-8 and TIC-80 are great and are _almost there_ in my opinion. If you took those and made their whole API available from their immediate modes, as well as make their immediate modes aware of the program you've typed in their code editors so you can call your program's defined functions from the immediate modes, I think you'd have something really special.

bottlero_cket · 3 years ago

You can do all of that already from immediate mode in both pico 8 and tic 80.