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tinkrr commented on Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript   github.com/boardgameio/bo... · Posted by u/freetonik
LudwigNagasena · a year ago
My main pain point with any sort of Flux-like state management is transitions [1]. The state of UI is not fully described by the state of the game [2]. If I play a card, the game state can be instantly updated to the next decison-making point, but in reality I want to show steps of the game through animations, some of which are concurrent and some of which are consecutive. That usually ends up in a mess; and I've never seen someone implement it nicely.

[1] And generally dynamic stuff like drag-n-drop, which is infinitely times simpler in any other architecture than in React.

[2] That is also true for business apps, but their animations are usually so simple you can simply use CSS.

tinkrr · a year ago
I agree fully with [1], having recently experienced the pain of implementing a custom drag-and-drop UI in React.

I ended up using ref's heavily to avoid stale closure and async re-render issues. Which basically amounts to circumventing React and interacting with the DOM directly.

tinkrr commented on Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app   about.noteshub.app... · Posted by u/alex-titarenko
tinkrr · a year ago
It seems like you re-use the code from the web app to create the hybrid mobile apps.

Which tool / framework do you use to achieve this?

tinkrr commented on Show HN: NotesHub: cross-platform, Markdown-based note-taking app   about.noteshub.app... · Posted by u/alex-titarenko
jdthedisciple · a year ago
It seems the creator has been a senior SWE at Microsoft for 7 years now.

It genuinely astounds me that as a solo dev he can make such a featureful app yet Microsoft the company has been failing hard in this realm for the last decade.

Also it makes you wonder how many UI-design teams, product owners, and middle managers are entirely obsolete next to a single competent SWE with a bit of talent for UI/UX.

tinkrr · a year ago
OneNote is a pretty decent note taking app.
tinkrr commented on Wordstar-keys: Implement wordstar cursor control keys in Linux using xkb   github.com/berwynhoyt/wor... · Posted by u/Tomte
Affric · 2 years ago
Interesting.

I think I might be I interested if I weren’t a vi-mapping kinda guy. The ubiquity is good.

tinkrr · 2 years ago
I use vi frequently, but I would be interested if the Wordstar mappings provide a speed benefit. They do seem to be easier to type.
tinkrr commented on Excellence is a habit, but so is failure   awesomekling.github.io/Ex... · Posted by u/dvrp
e1g · 3 years ago
Webster [1] traces the source of the word “character” to theater where it was used as an emblem of the reputation of someone or a group of people, similar to how you would recognize the brand name engraved into a thing. The interpretation that character is a result of “engraving” through repeated behavior (at the individual level) is fascinating, but doesn’t seems as supported from original usage for centuries.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-history-o...).

tinkrr · 3 years ago
The article itself says that there are multiple meanings of "character". One of which refers to a persons reputation and can be traced back to "the Greek charassein, meaning “to sharpen, cut in furrows, or engrave.”

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tinkrr commented on The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design   gameuidatabase.com/... · Posted by u/homarp
tinkrr · 5 years ago
Does this not violate copyright?
tinkrr commented on Show HN: Crossnote – a note taking extension for VSCode   github.com/0xGG/vscode-cr... · Posted by u/shd101wyy
tinkrr · 6 years ago
Nice, I was thinking of doing something similar for Notepad++.
tinkrr commented on Ask HN: Why aren't there many credible online bachelors programs?    · Posted by u/non-entity
tinkrr · 6 years ago
This course is offered by a reputable university and is supposed to be equivalent to it's on campus course.

https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute...

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