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CIARobotFishon Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

I'll second Worktree. I'm US based and have been using it for over a year. Very, very happy with their service.

I've more or less made a similar migration towards non-US alternatives for most of my services. In my case, I switched from GitHub to Worktree (https://worktree.ca/).

CIARobotFishon Your app subscription is now my weekend project

Yeah, I was confused by that as well. Typora is sold as a perpetual license for 3 devices at $15. I don't understand why their friend would be tired of paying for it.

CIARobotFishon Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://pa.rh.am/

I put together my website to collect all my projects in a single place and occasionally post some random thoughts.

CIARobotFishon Fedora 42 Beta

I'm willing to put up with a lot during an application process, but not Canonical's circus. If applying for a job at a company tells you anything about the company's culture then I don't think I would ever want to work there.

CIARobotFishon Ask HN: What are you going to build and ship in 2025?

As a follow-up to my custom track editor for the Donkey Konga games, I spent part of the holiday season working on a launcher to make playing custom tracks in the games easier and released a beta build just before Christmas: https://parham.itch.io/kongabeat/devlog/853452/konga-beat-10...

My goal now is to ship the 1.0 release in the next month or two and post the source code on GitHub under the MIT license.

CIARobotFishon Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

C# with Avalonia

I quite like working with C#, but Unity introduces a lot of unnecessary overhead and isn't designed to build an application like this. I had to use goofy hacks to make Konga Beat behave approximately like a regular native application.

CIARobotFishon Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

Admittedly, this may be a disappointing answer: when I started working on Konga Beat, I didn't fully grasp the extent of the rhythm game modding scene. I was so excited to make a dedicated editor that I just went for it.

Only when I was deep into working on Konga Beat did I discover editors like Moonscraper and Peepo Drum Kit. Even then, I was having so much fun working on Konga Beat that I wanted to see it to completion.

CIARobotFishon Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

Konga Beat uses a paid Unity extension which limits my ability to share the source code in a public repo. The code is also, admittedly, a bit messy. That said, I am happy to share the project's source code if you'd like to check it out! :)

CIARobotFishon Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3

Good call. I tried fitting a screenshot or two on the homepage before, but couldn't figure out an easy way to do it with the default VitePress layout. I should give it another go.

CIARobotFishon Ask HN: Was the free 1st episode of Silicon Valley an elaborate Googlebomb?

The second episode won't air until April 13th.