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dogonwheels··on Open Pixel-art Platformer
Here it is... https://github.com/anura-engine/anura
dogonwheels··on Stay-at-home dad
That you had 9 months notice and you're only telling me now? ;)

Seriously: I've met a minuscule number of people that can produce genuinely useful stuff when really working more than 8 hours in a stretch. I've met several orders of magnitude more people who think they can. I'm happy existing outside of both groups, and working with similar modest souls.

Also: I'd suggest getting up earlier and finishing at 4.

dogonwheels··on Stay-at-home dad
'I get it'. No. You really don't.
dogonwheels··on Going Beyond Django ORM with Postgres
I had at least 3 'postgres can do that?!' quickly followed by 'and I can do it with Django!?' when reading that. Brilliantly informative. Worth it just for the filtering on hstores - thank you!
dogonwheels··on Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
Nothing more than anecdote, but hey:

My Yorkshire village has a playground. They installed CCTV last month. More people complain about the main road changing from a 40mph to 30mph. I don't care if the 'they' is government or centralised or whatever. The numbness to surveillance unsettles me greatly.

dogonwheels··on Show HN : I've started an online (and offline) sweetshop
Looks great! I'd been bemoaning the lack of local sweet shops with family over the weekend and then clicked through to find you're only a few miles away! (I'm in North Leeds)

A couple of thoughts on the site:

- I'd rather see how many pink shrimps, or fried eggs I'm getting, rather than '20g'. Even if it's just approximate.

- A more 'see through' bag would be good. I realise I could click to see the contents, but I kept getting carried away and adding too much.

- The £2.50 delivery was initially off putting, and then I realised you do local for £1 and larger orders for free.

I'm sure you'll be getting my custom :)

dogonwheels··on The History of the "@" Symbol (Part 1)
It's part 1 - explaining the history of why we use @. I suspect (the well trailered) part 2 might answer the history of the symbol itself.

I certainly couldn't have guessed the contents of this carefully researched and well written post. Maybe I'm just not in your 'most of us'.

dogonwheels··on PyCharm 1.5 Released - now with Django Template Debugging
What platform are you on? My windows install seems to be prone to odd keyboard collisions, but mac is fine.
dogonwheels··on PyCharm 1.5 Released - now with Django Template Debugging
Indeed! It was a pleasant surprise, to me at least. I didn't immediately associate a Py IDE with JS dev (I'm a relative late comer to Django and still don't instinctively connect Python to webdev), but since they're my two languages of choice right now, it's ideal.

(and the sass syntax highlighting was also a 'ooh!', as was the automagical git support, as was JetBrains' helpful personal email reply to my filled in questionnaire, as was... well, you get the idea. I'm a happy customer!)

dogonwheels··on PyCharm 1.5 Released - now with Django Template Debugging
PyCharm also has excellent JavaScript support: http://www.jetbrains.com/editors/javascript_editor.jsp?ide=p...

This, the IDE's cross platform support and the IdeaVIM plugin have basically converted me back to an IDE toting developer again.

dogonwheels··on Announcing SproutCore 2.0 Developer Preview
How about Knockout? So it's not a 'full' RIA JS framework, but in my mind, that's no bad thing: http://knockoutjs.com/

It feels like a nice fit to MVC/MS stuff (there's certainly plenty of examples of this, and Steve Sanderson now works for MS). And it's easy to bind whatever UI you want to your view models.

Personally I now use KO for even the smallest of JS/HTML 'apps'. It's lovely :)

dogonwheels··on Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup
Used to be? Don't tell that to my milkman! :)

I still get milk and eggs (and sometimes some pretty bad knock-off Irn Bru) from ours. We're in the semi-countryside just outside of Leeds, and it's not at all unusual around here. Wonderful service!

dogonwheels··on WebGL Path Tracing
Thoroughly impressed. I didn't expect it to be so interactive! Lots of fun to be had with reflective surfaces and 'hiding' the light underneath a pyramid.

(using Webkit r83831 on 2009 13" MBP, works a treat!)

dogonwheels··on Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
Since we're nitpicking, that should be (US) English. In the UK we say neesh. Or at least, I do :)
dogonwheels··on Ask HN: Anyone have a really smart way to organize css?
I think the line_comments option might be some help.
dogonwheels··on Pixel Art Scaling Algorithms
I thought the same until I looked closely at the rotated objects as they landed. Not -quite- right.

Still. Lovely game and very charming and thoughtful artwork.

dogonwheels··on Show HN: Spreadsheets using Python - Have you seen this?
Was it http://hypernumbers.com ?