pixelbyindex (u/pixelbyindex)

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

pixelbyindex · 2 months ago

In the recent years, I discovered the joys of self hosting. What started with a single Plex server for my movie collection became a growing suite of open source applications that became my own personal cloud.

At the same time, I quickly ran into several of the limitations involved, ip addresses fluctuation, limited up speed on residential internet, electricity problems, you name it.

I didn't want to pay the crazy prices required for a dedicated server on AWS, and my storage needs were much greater that I was willing to pay for.

So I started a local business that allows you to run your own mac mini and access it with a dedicated ip for whatever purpose you would like: https://www.minimahost.com/

I'm hoping that over time I can grow it to a point that it could replace my software day job.

Oh, and I am about 3 years into an online mobile battle game. Hoping to publish in the next year or so.

pixelbyindex commented on Unity is threatening to revoke licenses of developers with flawed data old.reddit.com/r/gamedev/... · Posted by u/LookAtThatBacon

blablabla123 · 7 months ago

What are actually good alternatives?

pixelbyindex · 7 months ago

Honestly still a question worth investigating. I also dropped Unity for my latest project, spent a year with Godot and then realized.. it's just not quite there. So I had to go back and rework things. One thing you realize quick is that the talent pool for Godot is unfortunately very shallow.

Post publish, I will probably try Unreal and see where it takes me. I think Tim Sweeney has brought some good ideas to the space, so I am more willing to hop on his bandwagon.

pixelbyindex commented on Google spends $2.7B to re-hire Character AI's Noam Shazeer entrepreneur.com/business... · Posted by u/bschmidt1

bschmidt1 · a year ago

HN is deleting comments and censoring it. If the story got bigger they'll mark this as "dupe" and put their bots all over their version of coverage. Joke

pixelbyindex · a year ago

Why would HN be interested in deleting comments about this? Looks like there was a discussion previously, although not regarding the deal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41141112

pixelbyindex commented on macOS Sequoia is available today apple.com/newsroom/2024/0... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

andreicek · a year ago

I updated, and my whole Elixir/JS setup works like before.

I like that they _finally_ added window snapping to the window manager, but keyboard shortcuts are still missing from what I can see.

Edit: it is possible! take a look at this Reddit post for a workaround https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1dcy6l2/comment/lax9...

pixelbyindex · a year ago

I have been using a little app called Rectangle[1] for years now, and it solves every possible window positioning need I have ever had. No ads, no cost.

As far as the conversation goes, 1st party implementation by Apple would be nice and all, but 3rd party doesn't bother me in the slightest. (at least in this case)

[1] https://rectangleapp.com/

pixelbyindex commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

pixelbyindex · a year ago

  Location: San Diego, CA
  Remote: Preferred
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Javascript / Typescript, React, C# .Net, Python, MongoDb, PostgreSQL, AWS services, many more
  Résumé/CV: https://felipemullen.com/resume
  Email: felipedmullen@gmail.com

I am a staff level senior engineer with lots of experience in all things related to modern webapps, apis, backend services and databases.

I also have a variety of skills that go beyond writing code, with UX and design, creative thinking, and systems design, and managing a team of 3 over the last 2 years. Currently building up my indie game company, https://ind3x.games during my spare time. The goal is to one day be able to make some major OSS contributions, both individually and via the company.

Some links to my online presence:

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/felipemullen/  
  https://github.com/felipemullen/  
  https://felipemullen.com/

pixelbyindex commented on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS techcrunch.com/2024/03/06... · Posted by u/madtrax

usefulcat · 2 years ago

It's entirely a matter of incentives. Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit. Pretty much everything they do apart from that (make products, employ people, pollute, etc) is, strictly speaking, a side effect.

If they could make just as much money (or more) without doing any of those other things, they absolutely would, and any company that wouldn't do the same would eventually be put out of business via competition, barring some kind of external intervention, say from the state.

If you want companies to grow a conscience, you're first going to have to figure out how to change their incentives, which means changing the environment in which they operate.

pixelbyindex · 2 years ago

> Companies are like machines whose sole purpose is to make a profit.

I think I understand that you mean to say "Corporations", whose governing body is made up of board members and executives. In that sense, there certainly seems to be a strong correlation.

In my case, however, I started a game company this year, and my goals are not profit driven. I haven't sat down to write things out but I probably should. Loosely, my company's two main goals:

- To make fun/mindblowing/entertaining pieces of Art. This is done by working on the gaming dreams that myself and my employees have.

- To give my employees a future where they care about the company as much as I do, feel financially well compensated and satisfied in their career, and have support for their aspirations and ideas.

pixelbyindex commented on Game over for Roblox on Linux / Steam Deck as it's now blocked gamingonlinux.com/2024/03... · Posted by u/josephcsible

pixelbyindex · 2 years ago

Not that I agree with the move, but from a business perspective, perhaps it has to do with the expense of keeping up with issues and complaints that arise from allowing wine to run it.

Looking at the latest usage share of linux desktop users[1], this is still under 2% of the market

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...