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aulisiuson I want to be left alone (2024)

This reads like something Bo Burnham would write/perform.

aulisiuson The year of peak might and magic

I remember coming across HoMM around 2008, but the published game was nowhere available near where I lived, so I ended up playing a web based clone[0].

Been playing it for around 17 years, and it is still quite fun.

[0] https://www.lordswm.com/

aulisiuson I made a system to abolish subscriptions

Just from a first impression, it seems like credits replace subscription here?

The only difference then is to switch to a pay as you go rather than fixed monthly payments.

aulisiuson Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

3121 pts, 14 avg. years off.

Decent try considering most of the options were USA specific.

aulisiuson Lua Is So Underrated

I recently came across TypescriptToLua[0] which has improved my experience of writing Lua manyfolds. No more having to deal with 1-based indexes or lack of type hints.

[0] - https://typescripttolua.github.io/

aulisiuson Evaluating new software forges

Coincidentally, I've been mulling the same idea for a week now. A self-hostable source forge + registry to serve artifacts would be amazing.

I think the only thing you'd lose is the 'social' aspects of GitHub, but I believe that can be made up with a combination of rss feeds (?), ActivityPub etc.