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shminge commented on Building a new Flash   bill.newgrounds.com/news/... · Posted by u/TechPlasma
cableshaft · 10 days ago
I made Flash Games back in the day. Here's my old profile on Newgrounds: https://cableshaft.newgrounds.com/

One thing Flash had that nothing else has really seemed to replicate as well since, is an environment that both coders and artists could use. I'd collaborate with an artist, they'd make their animations within an FLA, send it to me, and then I'd copy+paste into the project file, and it'd just work. I could even tweak their animations if need be to remove a frame here or there to tighten the animations and make it feel more fluid, etc.

That being said, I'm not sure I could go back to it now. I've been working with Love2D lately, and I prefer that (especially for the version control). FLA version control was always me going 'GameName-1.fla', 'GameName-2.fla', or when I got a little smarter 'GameName-Date.fla'. Eventually they let you split out the actionscript files into its own files, and that was better for version control, but you still had the binary mess of the FLA file.

But all these sprite-based game editors just can't handle the crazy intricate animations that vector-based Flash games could handle. Porting one of my old games (Clock Legends) that had hundreds of frames of hand drawn animation for a boss that filled the screen would be ridiculously huge nowadays, but the FLA for that was like 23MB, I believe (I'll need to hunt it down, I have it somewhere), and several MB of that were for the songs in the game.

Excited for this project though. It deserves to come back in some form.

shminge · 9 days ago
I've tried Love2D and enjoyed it but just found the lack of support for Lua was tough - how do you handle debugging and things?
shminge commented on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client   help.obsidian.md/sync/hea... · Posted by u/adilmoujahid
dispersed · 14 days ago
This is great, but as convenient as Obsidian Sync is, it'll never replace plain Git (for me) until it has unlimited version history:

> The retention period for your version history depends on your Obsidian Sync plan. On the Standard plan, notes are retained for 1 month, while on the Plus plan, they are kept for 12 months. After this period, older versions of your notes are deleted.

shminge · 13 days ago
I have sync to support the amazing devs, and for convenience, and an automatic git-based backup that runs in the background. It's good to double dip sometimes
shminge commented on What's the best way to learn a new language?   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/1659447091
shminge · 20 days ago
I thought this was about programming languages before I saw it was from BBC, making me ask - what is the best way to learn a new programming language?

I'm guessing the answer is making small things, but what exactly? I've made so many to do list apps I don't know what to do with them

shminge commented on How I use Obsidian (2023)   stephango.com/vault... · Posted by u/hisamafahri
brcmthrowaway · 24 days ago
How does it compare to notion
shminge · 24 days ago
offline first, so much faster, no terrible pricing model. Hugely better in my opinion
shminge commented on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed   jamesdrandall.com/posts/t... · Posted by u/jamesrandall
WoodenChair · a month ago
Ironically this post comes across to me as written by an LLM. The em-dashes, the prepositions, the "not this, that" lines. As a college instructor, I can usually tell. I put it through GPTZero and it said it's 96% LLM written. GPTZero is not full-proof but I think it's likely right on this one and I find it very ironic.
shminge · a month ago
fwiw, it's 'foolproof' not 'full-proof'
shminge commented on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?    · Posted by u/blahaj
shminge · 2 months ago
I'm sick of using React for personal projects so I've been building a lightweight, functional, and minimalistic reactive web framework. Turns out there are a lot of decisions that go into something like this, it truly is an iceberg of complexity. It creates plenty of enjoyable problems to think about though
shminge commented on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled   jayd.ml/2025/11/10/someon... · Posted by u/jaydenmilne
sreya · 4 months ago
Not being able to play Youtube in the background on your phone is unfortunately one of the main appeals of Premium. There's a lot of good mixes, concerts, etc that I play for the audio while doing something else that I can't do without Premium unless I wanted to leave my phone unlocked (and pray I don't pocket click a link).
shminge · 4 months ago
If you're on Android, YouTube Revanced does this (+many other premium features)
shminge commented on Notion 3.0   notion.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
t0lo · 6 months ago
Plugging notesnook- it's in between notion and obsidian and doesn't steal your data
shminge · 6 months ago
What does it give you that Obsidian can't?

u/shminge

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