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pikuseru commented on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML htmhell.dev/adventcalenda... · Posted by u/soheilpro

RussianCow · 2 months ago

You say awesome, I say layers upon layers of opaque incantations I have to remember. Thank god for LLMs.

pikuseru · 2 months ago

“Layers upon layers of opaque incantations”

You’ve described software.

pikuseru commented on Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML htmhell.dev/adventcalenda... · Posted by u/soheilpro

wvenable · 2 months ago

I can't see how a bunch of esoteric incantations are better than just some straight-forward easy to understand and follow JavaScript.

pikuseru · 2 months ago

Because a team of browser engineers have already written and reviewed the code to do it for you; and (hopefully) it’ll be performant, properly tested and accessible… ;-D

pikuseru commented on Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/m... · Posted by u/laurentlb

pikuseru · 3 months ago

Of the many cool things I liked about this, removing the missile from the array by swapping it with the last missile and decrementing the missile count was a nice trick.

pikuseru commented on Where are you supposed to go if you don't care about growth? ramones.dev/posts/where-a... · Posted by u/ramon156

pikuseru · 3 months ago

I remember being idealistic when I first started. Now I’m just jaded and cynical. Don’t try looking for meaning in any of it, you won’t find any. The system just churns along. And everyone with it. Play the game and nod along. Your job doesn’t define who you are. Just be thankful because you could be in a worse situation.

pikuseru commented on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright bbc.com/news/articles/c1j... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

pikuseru · 4 months ago

I’m glad it’s not just me. These LED headlights are terrible and dazzle me all the time. It’s especially bad with SUVs that have lights right in your eyeline, when you’re driving a “normal” car.

pikuseru commented on Do you know that there is an HTML tables API? christianheilmann.com/202... · Posted by u/begoon

dtagames · 4 months ago

Tables died (thankfully) to make room for flex and grid. I can't see any use case for them at all anymore.

pikuseru · 4 months ago

They’re probably still quite useful for displaying tabular data - there’s also semantics involved, it’s not primarily just a layout mechanism.

pikuseru commented on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses nbcnews.com/health/health... · Posted by u/8bitsrule

lta · 5 months ago

Free software is more important than ever

pikuseru · 5 months ago

Free healthcare as well

pikuseru commented on Apple Photos app corrupts images tenderlovemaking.com/2025... · Posted by u/pattyj

pikuseru · 6 months ago

“It just works”

pikuseru commented on A QBasic Text Adventure Still Expanding in 2025 the-ventureweaver.itch.io... · Posted by u/ATiredGoat

pabs3 · 6 months ago

Wonder if there are any QBasic projects still out there.

pikuseru · 6 months ago

Windows 10

pikuseru commented on Ask HN: How can I recover and run my old mobile game from the 2010s? · Posted by u/diasks2

pikuseru · 7 months ago

How about making a new game with help from your son (even if it’s ideas) and making some new memories? ;-)

The problem I found is that a lot of the stuff I made is tied to the hardware, OS and SDKs I used to make and run it (especially PalmOS and J2ME stuff - although Apple is just as bad.)

Luckily I’ve been able to find an emulator called Cloudpilot Emu to run some of my old PalmOS games in the browser.

I think if I was doing a game now and wanted to be able to look back on it in 10 to 20 years time I’d be doing it in C with SDL or JavaScript - although you’re betting on those being around. Or at least some virtual machine / runtime that could be ported to some new OS / platform.

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KarmaCake day48October 5, 2019View Original