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ostwilkens commented on Ask HN: What is the international distribution/statistics of HN visitors?    · Posted by u/KellyCriterion
ostwilkens · 3 months ago
Two of my blog posts were on the front page earlier this year, netting 56k unique visitors. The visits were spread over multiple days, and should cover different timezones somewhat well. The analytics are located at an endpoint which looks vital, and should bypass most adblockers.

35.1% United States

8.0% Germany

6.5% United Kingdom

5.4% Canada

3.1% Australia

3.0% France

2.7% Netherlands

2.6% India

2.4% Sweden

1.9% Poland

1.7% Switzerland

1.6% Spain

1.4% Japan

1.4% Belgium

1.3% Italy

1.1% Austria

1.1% Finland

1.0% Norway

1.0% Brazil

7.0% Other countries

ostwilkens commented on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web   cybercultural.com/p/lastf... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
ostwilkens · 3 months ago
Still scrobbling since 2008. A lot of smaller artists used to upload their music to last.fm, and I found a lot of gems there (specifically in the swedish bitpop scene).
ostwilkens commented on VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III   vcmi.eu/... · Posted by u/eamag
ostwilkens · 3 months ago
> add new towns, creatures, heroes, artifacts and spells without limits or conflicts

If the original game had these features, it would likely have gotten me into programming at an even earlier age!

ostwilkens commented on VCMI: An open-source engine for Heroes III   vcmi.eu/... · Posted by u/eamag
ostwilkens · 3 months ago
Very cool! I have one non-technical friend who occasionally wants to play HOMM, and she often has issues getting it working (specifically non-hd, non-hota on intel mac). This could be a remedy.
ostwilkens commented on Laptops with Stickers   stickertop.art/main/... · Posted by u/z303
tectonic · 4 months ago
My laptop has stickers, one of which is a photo of my previous laptop and its stickers. One of those is a photo of the laptop before that…
ostwilkens · 4 months ago
I love this... I haven't had the courage to "spend" my sticker collection on my current laptop, as they obviously don't last forever. A solution could be to photograph the old cover, and print it as a full-size sticker as a starting point for the next laptop!
ostwilkens commented on Laptops with Stickers   stickertop.art/main/... · Posted by u/z303
ostwilkens · 4 months ago
Love it! I'll showcase my sticker collection on my laptop as soon as I come up with a way to make them reusable.
ostwilkens commented on Game design is simple   raphkoster.com/2025/11/03... · Posted by u/vrnvu
ostwilkens · 4 months ago
> Bottom line: fun is basically about making progress on prediction.

I'm having some trouble parsing this sentence. Does he mean that "player has fun if their predictions lead to progress"?

ostwilkens commented on Writing 23 Games in 24 Days (in Rust)   ostwilkens.se/blog/small-... · Posted by u/ostwilkens
remram · 9 months ago
The first one, 230716 (vampire survivor clone) seems to have a bug: after a few iterations, I seem to level up without getting the menu. A new weapon/orbiting-square appears regularly without me choosing anything.
ostwilkens · 9 months ago
Thanks for trying it! This is actually intentional, to make the game playable in the "end-game" where you level up ~every second :-)

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