roadrunner_ex

@roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My last week has been filled with Marvels Midnight Suns. XCom meets deck builder meets dating simulator-lite. I’m having a blast, considering none of those genres are my forte

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort-of PS3 Shadow of the Colossus, but the physics engine gives me heart palpitations. Wondering if I should switch to the remaster someday, if that improves anything…

  Also, Daemon X Machina on PC, which is fun, but also too story-lite for my preferences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The story of how the SSH port became 22.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a strange article. The reasoning for why 22 is interesting though very straightforward, and the rest of the article is essentially “I asked for port 22, and they gave it to me”. Little fanfare, little in way of storytelling conflict.

  Not an issue in and of itself, but strange with a title of the form “This is the story of…” That sort of titling usually begets intrigue and triumph over adversity, dunnit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2869: Puzzles⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a book I read in elementary school (in the Cam Jansen series, IIRC) where the main conflict was a mean older brother put a password on the new family computer (a huge deal in the early 90s), and the younger hires the kid detective to find the password. The password is “hot dog”, ultimately determined because the desktop BG was a picture of ketchup and mustard.

  I recall being not super satisfied with that ending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All roads lead to woodworking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Litterbox - Static code analyis for Scratch Programs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this belongs here.

  I also love the idea of some sort of CI/CD pipeline with this in its linting stage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the myth of type safety⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda feel your pain. A project that I helped launch is written in Typescript technically, but the actual on-the-ground developers were averse to using type safety, so any is used everywhere. So, it becomes worst of both worlds, and the code is a mess (I don’t have authority in the project anymore, and wouldn’t touch it even if I could).

  I’m also annoyed at some level because some of the devs are pretty junior, and I fear they are going to go forward thinking Typescript or type safety in general is bad, which hurts my type-safety-loving-soul