boriskourt

Hello HN,

This is a tiny little thing that me and a frequent collaborator [0] wanted to express in these challenging times. What if people miss something as awkward and forgettable as elevator small talk?

Right now, there are virtual places where we can meet, collaborate, do yoga, talk about books, watch content together, and rave. This virtual space gives you an analog that is a little more from the daily inbetween times.

After long days of video calls at work, we ended up doing more video calls each evening to get this wrapped up. Overall this small concept took four weeks to finish. In the process I primarily learned that there have been notches in screens for a few years now.

The whole thing is built with Clojure and ClojureScript. And largely leveraged Sente [1], a wonderful front+back end WebSocket story. The characters are customized from the amazing Open Peeps library [2]. And there is some more info in the (?) on the website for the curious.

I am curious about what this community thinks about little, possibly zen, distractions like this?

[0]: https://ameliedinh.com/

[1]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente

[2]: https://www.openpeeps.com/

Awesome to see this project here! It also comes with an open source creation kit that allows for standalone (non mod) games to be built with no Morrowind associations. The whole thing runs on top of Open Scene Graph, and is multi-platform out of the box. Their GitHub has some useful information as well: https://github.com/OpenMW/openmw

Just a solid browser would not help when Android is not designed for that market. And when devices are effectively crippled by lack of support/updates, and questionable bloatware.

This does need to be close to a 'from the ground up' initiative. And that has nothing to do with latest developer trends.

I agree with many of your points. I just want to note that Firefox OS aligned 100% with keeping the web open. There is a vast group of users that only have a mobile device and can only get online through their phone. Their entire 'web' experience is through this medium.

Firefox OS in its pre-shutdown iteration did not serve these people perfectly yet, but it was well on its way to be a solid choice for them. A choice that held their values first, not just the values of western consumers trimmed to fit.

And now there are no 'open' choices for an open mobile internet device (below 50USD) The cheap knockoff Android phones that dominate that market are preloaded with untrustworthy applications, and ship with unverifiable firmware. The latter is almost never updateable to anything recent or patched for security. This makes for a very exploitative, dangerous web, and it grows more so as it grows more integral to peoples livelihood.

I applaud Mozilla for starting it, but I think the decision to shutter the whole initiative was incredibly damaging. At the very least because now it, falsely, appears to be a cautionary tale to anyone else that may wish to attempt this initiative.

It is the title tag of the original document.

I have enjoyed working with Nightmod so far. Thank you for taking the time to create it. I think that this will be a fun tool to brainstorm gameplay ideas quickly. So far I've successfully used it as a kind of REPL for a larger game project.

I think that this solution would work as long as I didn't have to re-init everything each session. Some of the IDEs, not exclusive to free options, dump the sessions fairly aggressively. (And it ends up being a new 'box' with only the project files remaining consistent) Which makes sense, but not helpful in my particular use case.

I have used C9 and Nitrous (paid for both for a while) but I found that compiling any JVM based language causes these to choke quite a bit. I tested the free version of Codio right now and it started up the JVM + Compiler faster than C9 and Nitrous. Alas that isn't saying much. Testing with a minute ClojureScript project it still took 108.415 seconds for just the initial warmup (which is largely the JVM)

I know these are low resource boxes, but none of the collaborative web IDEs that I have tried even have an upgradeable package to get some more kick out of the box. I am not excited to pay more, but if I can get regular Linux box (even the five dollar digital ocean plan beats this out of the water time wise) compile speeds I would finally be able to stick to using one of these.

I know I can ssh in and run the code on my own server, but that adds an extra step with these IDEs.

Another reason is that I am trying to set up one of these services as a teaching tool, allowing people to view the code live without collaborating directly. C9 (and in some ways Nitrous) is fairly well equipped for this use case, are there any plans for Codio to look into more robust support for a many viewers -> single editor model?