Check out Boards of Canada. Lots of their stuff is like this.
I was ranked #1 in the world for a good while in Pistol Whip. On both PC and PS4, before they separated out all the leaderboards based on modifiers.
Definitely possible -- check out emulatorjs. There are a few premade docker containers for it, but they were a bit finicky when I tried them. I eventually just ended up writing a react wrapper for it and have it hosted in a docker container. It works great, and will even play psx games without issue.
Mid 30s and still can't grow a beard or moustache. There is no hope for me.
Same. Honestly no issues with react+vite that I haven't been able to solve.
I managed to get into web-dev without a CS degree, but I definitely consider myself one of the lucky ones.
I got a bachelor's in Chemistry, but realized very quickly after graduating that there are precisely zero decent paying jobs for a bachelor's in general chemistry. Literally the only place that even called me back was offering $14/hr to do urinalysis... working the graveyard shift.
I ended up getting a job doing content review as a contractor for the largest video sharing platform (you know the one). A lot of the work was really monotonous, mostly just copying and pasting stuff. We had a quota that once we hit, we could stop working (and still be paid a full day). I could already hit the quota in around 3-4 hours, but I realized if I didn't have to copy/paste, I could cut that down to only 1-2 hours.
So, in my spare time at work I ended up learning JavaScript and making a chrome extension to do just that. I showed my bosses and they ended up putting me in a full time programming position.
I don't use my chemistry degree at all, but my math minor definitely comes in handy.
Always some back to this mix from time to time. Akira Yamaoka is a genius.
Exact same thing happened to me the other day. Like exactly. Maybe we live in the same area.
Can't tell if you're having a problem with birds or debris. Maybe it's a problem of debris from debirding. Either way, good luck 👍
I bought a Roland Jupiter 6 synthesizer for $1100 around 14 years ago. Are the time, the price definitely made me flinch. Last I checked, they are going for $8000-$10,000 on eBay.
Thanks for the very thorough response! I will absolutely check this out. I would say I have a fair bit of experience in OO programming. A decent amount from JS and also a good bit from C#, which I dabbled in for a good while during my "I'm going to make a game in unity" phase haha.
I know enough C++ to get myself in trouble, but it seems every time I have to use it I get super frustrated that things aren't as simple as they are in other languages I'm familiar with. That, and I never seem to know the exact terminology to look up my particular issue (which is half the battle anyways).
I actually needed to write a UDF in C for my mariadb instance just the other day. It ended up taking me several hours for something that would have taken me just minutes in JS or C#. It ended up being a pointer + memory allocation issue. Basically I wasn't clearing the allocated memory and resetting the index between function calls. It also frustrates me to no end that I can't just array.push() to add a new char to the end of a char array lol.
I also wrote a VST with Juce in C++ a few years back. I got it working eventually, but God I remember it being an absolute nightmare.
I guess really I have a hard time understanding when and why it's even necessary to use pointers etc since that stuff has been abstracted away in the higher level languages I know. It seems like you could essentially get the same functionality by just knowing when things are passed by value vs passed by reference.
Piggybacking on this:
I've been wanting to learn C++ as well. I am very experienced with JavaScript, and also am very fluent with Arduino. I've messed around with actual C++ before but I get lost with all the pointers, header files, and memory allocation stuff.
Are there any resources y'all would recommend to someone who has all of the programming fundamentals, but wants to learn the specifics of C++?
You and me both! My usual handle has been sherbethead for at least 15 years. Decided to switch it up to my artist name when I moved to Lemmy though. Boards has been my favorite group since I heard 1969 on Yahoo launchcast back in 2003 haha.
My all-time-favorite band, hands down. I always upvote boards.
Might I recommend:
- Last walk around mirror lake
- Dawn chorus
- Left side drive
- Seven forty seven
- Sandsings
...just to name a few. I could go on and on.
Plaid is one of my all time favorites! Got to see them a few years back. If you like them, check out an artist called IDGlitch on SoundCloud. Super underrated and the closest thing I've heard to plaid:
Programmer here.
Infected Mushroom or Eskimo for when I'm in the zone and pumping out code.
For debugging: Boards of Canada, Plaid, Lone, Ciaran Byrne
Decided I'd give a sneak peek at something I'm working on:
Since building my home server I've constantly been on the lookout for a decent frontend to manage my files, etc. I initially tried file browser, but it was always really buggy for me, and honestly I hated it.
Since my server is headless, a PiKVM and the like wouldn't really work for me the way I wanted, so I decided to just build what I was looking for on my own.
And with that, I'd like to introduce: redox_os TBD
It's an emulated OS built in react with a node+express backend. It's made to be as fully customizable as you want. You can create new "apps" for it very easily. Anything you can make in react/JavaScript can be loaded as an "app" with just a simple config file.
It's still very much a work in progress, but I figured it was complete enough for a little show and tell.
Current features:
- a desktop with icons/etc
- a file browser
- text editor (complete with syntax highlighting)
- a full featured terminal
- a picture viewer
- a music player
- a video player (capable of live-transcoding to an html5 compatible format)
- a file downloader (for downloading files to the server from the web)
- full drag and drop capabilities (even drop files from outside your browser to upload)
- downloading files from the server to local
- full mobile/touch support
I'm also still very much deciding how to handle the release. It's mostly functional already, but I'd really want it to be polished before a proper release.
Since I also have a full time job, that may take a while. Contributors would definitely help, but I'm also a little split on whether I should make if FOSS. I'm definitely leaning so, but idk.
Definitely open to any feedback, suggestions, criticism, etc.
Edit: Thanks to everyone for the feedback! Looks like I'll definitely be going FOSS. Also I'll be changing the name 😄
Not sure what to call it now though. Maybe reDOS? Lol
I still wanna tidy everything up a bit before making the code public. Maybe go back and start adding some comments/documentation as currently there is none. I'm really terrible about that.
Also definitely a bit shy to open up my code to public scrutiny haha. I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes and bad practices.