Damn, really fantastic article - there goes the rest of my day playing with this!
Readit Newsmrspeaker commented on Banshees of Inisherin: The Game bansheesthegame.com/... · Posted by u/fancyfish
Not sure why you'd turn this into a game (it's awesome though!), but for anyone who hasn't seen the movie - I'd recommend it. It really has stuck with me long after I saw it. Starts out with "Father Ted" vibes, but end up going... in other directions.
mrspeaker commented on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book? noctslackv2.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ColinWright
Not my story but seems vaguely relevant.
Apparently the lyrics to Sheryl Crow's "All I wanna do" song were taken from a poetry book found in a second hand book store.
After the song hit, the poet got sued by the person he'd based the character of Bill on.
> The lyrics of the song are based on the poem "Fun" by Wyn Cooper.[1][2][3][4] Cooper was inspired to write the poem by a conversation at a bar with a friend and occasional writer, Bill Ripley,[5][6] in which he said "All I want is to have a little fun before I die", which became the first line of the poem. In a 1994 interview, Cooper said: "The poem isn't really about him. Or me. They're different people. They're people you can sort of see as ... well ... objective correlatives. Symbols of people like us, or what we could have been, or what we would have become if we continued to drink and do nothing with our lives."[7][8]
> Toad Hall Studio, where the song was recorded, was next door to the Pasadena Playhouse.[9][10] Crow's producer (Bottrell) discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in a nearby used bookstore in Pasadena, California. Crow had written a song called "I Still Love You" but was unhappy with its lyrics; she used its melody and adapted the poem for her lyrics to "All I Wanna Do".
> The song earned Cooper considerable royalties and helped to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints.[7] After the song became popular, Ripley brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cooper for some of the song's royalties, which ended their friendship.[7][11]
I can't believe you posted that - just yesterday I was thinking about how dark that song was.
The bit that really stood out was how "anti-Billy" it was: "He says his name is William, but I'm sure it's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy". Like he was lying about his name/nickname. Then later - even when siding with him - says "They're nothing like Billy and me". He bloody told you his name was William!
The more I thought about the song the more I thought that the lyrics made a really interesting poem.
Then the next day I found out why!
mrspeaker commented on Apple II Documentation Project mirrors.apple2.org.za/App... · Posted by u/gscott
In case anyone is interested http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/index.html is effectively a less-organized Commodore equivalent
Woah. I've spent the last year-or-so messing with coding the C64 and hoovering up any information I could find... and I never found this site/ftp. So much good stuff - there goes my evening!
It was killed by typescript.
I'd argue that CoffeeScript was dead before Typescript went mainstream, and that JavaScript killed CoffeeScript: or rather, CoffeeScript killed itself.
Many of the features that made CoffeeScript fun and useful were incorporated directly into ES6. The proposals even cited CoffeeScript and borrowed the syntax verbatim or with minor changes. By the time arrow-functions were accepted it was obvious that the cost of transpiling wasn't worth it any more, all that was left was "significant whitespace", which was the most buggy part about CoffeeScript anyway!
mrspeaker commented on Ask HN: How to transition away from software engineering · Posted by u/throwaway25626
I felt the same way last year, and had just moved countries. I decided I wouldn't apply for any jobs that were "normal": the normal work I would do. No IT consultants/agencies, no web-dev companies, no finance, no advertising, no SAAS, and nothing where I'd have to write the same four programs over and over. It took a while, but I ended up getting a job in a completely new domain: but one that still required my core skills.
So I get to learn a lot of new things, while still being a productive team member.
I'm starting to feel that software development should be a means to an ends - not the ends itself, so focusing on the (non-software) domain is the play.
I had the luxury of being able to take my time, but I found a handful of interesting opportunities that matched my requirements. It's much rarer than regular-old IT jobs, but they ARE out there!
Good luck!
mrspeaker commented on TodoMVC App Written in Vanilla JavaScript github.com/1Marc/todomvc-... · Posted by u/thm
I like the "const TodoStore = class extends EventTarget" idea to trigger rendering... neat trick!
mrspeaker commented on Who invented modern political satire? newramblerreview.com/book... · Posted by u/Petiver
Some feedback: "This is the first test on our app", "Option1, Option2, Option3, Option4", random pictures of fingers, "Dddd, "Eeee"... doesn't really give any indication on what this app is about or what it's supposed to be used for.
I spend 10 minutes looking at those screen shots, but have no idea what this app could possibly be about, and I can't see how it relates to the description about politics - it makes no sense!
Pico-8 had so much care put into its goals and intentional limitations: and so far Picotron seems to have that same level of love and thought. It's delightful, and I don't want to stop making things with it.
I've used many of the clones of pico-8 and they all feel like they miss the point. They "improve" on the limitations, but are just... not satisfying. Funnily enough, I've tried three times to make my own JavaScript version of what Picotron is ("what if I made a more feature-rich version of Pico-8 to use for prototyping in game jams?") and each time abandoned it because it felt like the Pico-8 clones: adequate, functional, but not inspirational.
I don't know who makes Pico-8 and Picotron, but hats off to you amazing person/people for making such likable software!