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jamie_ca··on Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
The difference is how they're consumed you don't sit down on Netflix and say "put some scifi on shuffle for 8h", you sit down and choose a show.

If you're the kind of person who would manually queue up 100% of your songs for the day then Spotify Generic songs aren't an issue. If you just hit a "2020s R&B" playlist and go that's where it feels more sketchy.

jamie_ca··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
Are you looking for Crossover? It's a bit annoying to not run Steam natively (no cmd+H to hide, etc) but it's got a lot of support. Performance is decent on my M2 mini, and even cross-platform stuff like Baldurs Gate 3 is comparable performance to native.

Especially anything that Mac Steam natively calls out lack of 32bit support has good support.

jamie_ca··on Making a Small RPG
I can counter-recommend Kenney's game assets, it's got sprites, buildings, terrain, backgrounds, top-down, side-on, isometric... Lots of variety for different genres and settings, too.

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

jamie_ca··on Google Antigravity
Back when Cursor was new (before literally everything was AI hype) they explicitly called out that they wanted to do more in-depth integration with the editor than was possible with just the extension APIs.

Presumably that hasn't changed much. If you want to do any large-scale edits of the UI you need to spin up a fork.

jamie_ca··on Show HN: I built a self-hosted error tracker in Rails
I want to vaguely recall that they had like 4 products in planning stages for ONCE, released Campfire, then released Writebook for free, and then made Campfire free.

Lately on the podcast I only hear about Fizzy and one other unannounced SAAS that they're putting dev energy behind, nothing about other ONCE products.

I suspect that without a critical mass of usage driving word of mouth the long tail of sales was basically nil, and long-term even fairly small products weren't looking to recoup dev costs any time soon.

jamie_ca··on Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts
It's more fiddly in that you need to swap to desktop mode to do the installs, but you can get it set up so that your "external" games from Epic or Itch or emulators or whatever show up in the standard Steam UI.
jamie_ca··on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
Curious about your opinions on WealthSimple, if you can share. I got introduced to them when they bought out SimpleTax, and so far they've been pretty reasonable for investments.
jamie_ca··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
I got the Learn Lockpicking bundle a few years back, it's a solid customizable lock - six slots, a few different pin styles, and the springs to make it work. I got practiced enough to get a 3-pin opened, but I'm definitely out of practice now.
jamie_ca··on Litestream v0.5.0
Either joins for a fat query, or aggregate the subqueries.

For the latter, it's along the lines of `select * from posts where ...` and `select * from authors where id in {posts.map(author_id)}`. And then once it's in memory you manually work out the associations (or rely on your ORM to do it).

jamie_ca··on Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground
Lots of tech was developed and commercialized as a byproduct of the space program. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...
jamie_ca··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
If you're running linters for formatting etc, just get the agent to run them on autocorrect and it doesn't need to know the status as urgently.
jamie_ca··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
A _great_ spin on this is Tunic, which has an in-game manual that you find pages of as you play, and is written in an in-game language so you kinda sorta need to work things out based on the diagrams and other notation.

At a base level, it tells you about abilities that you have from the beginning of the game but don't know the buttons to press to trigger them, but it goes much deeper.

Great game, 100% recommend.

jamie_ca··on US to rewrite its past national climate reports
https://www.iea.org/countries/china/energy-mix

Their green energy line _is_ on the increase, but it's effectively flat compared to the growth lines on coal and oil.

jamie_ca··on Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Alberta has been struggling with this lately, the province on the whole keeps voting in 90% or more Conservative MPs, but Canada on the whole puts the Liberal party in charge. And so Albertans get frustrated that they don't feel like they've got any voice in things.

Little do they realize that a more proportional system that would have them elect reps from the "bad" party in order to get them reps in the ruling party to advocate internally for Alberta does have benefits...

jamie_ca··on How to Design Programs 2nd Ed (2024)
Direct link is https://htdp.org/2024-11-6/Book/index.html which says "Released on Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 7:36:10pm"

I think this is the 2024 digital release of the 2014/2018 physical publication.

jamie_ca··on Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life
Baldur's Gate 3 nailed execution out of the park, but I don't know what I'd point to as innovation that puts it meaningfully beyond what Neverwinter Nights expansions coming out in 2004-2005 were doing.
jamie_ca··on I tried Windows gaming on a Mac
Note also that Whisky is no longer maintained, author suggests using CrossOver.

https://docs.getwhisky.app/maintenance-notice

jamie_ca··on Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)
Nope, that's a quote from early in the book.
jamie_ca··on A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
Interesting idea, but for clarity the cells need to be smoothed to ensure each cell edge has a minimum length.

eg. In the example image the top-left cluster has a given 9, where the orange line marking the run goes out to the right at what to me looks like a corner.

jamie_ca··on DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
If Mozilla can make up a significant portion of funding by selling default search engine placement, I'm sure an independent Chrome could get 10x that (based on userbase/usage) and be reasonably self-sufficient for continued browser development.
jamie_ca··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
I'm in the 45-49 age bracket this year. In BC (Canada), a 95th percentile income for that age is $126,000 (2021 Census). Before any deductions (specifically retirement investments that reduce taxable income) I'd be looking at a 26.85% tax rate, with a marginal rate of 38%. So pretty much the same rate here.

Not to say that Canada's overall economy is particularly any better than the UK's, and especially Trump's tariff threats will do a number on us.

jamie_ca··on 1% Equity for Founding Engineers Is BS
Test Double is a consultancy that's now employee-owned https://testdouble.com/news-and-awards/software-consultancy-...

But yeah that was a situation of a privately held company opting to make that transition, I'm not sure they had any investors to complicate things. And they're definitely an outlier.

jamie_ca··on Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos"
If your HTTP referer is HN, it redirects to https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png
jamie_ca··on Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game
They tried some years back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_(computer) but it didn't really hit big. That said recent updates to SteamOS and agreements around logo/branding use hint that we're likely to see a few other options in the coming year or two (alongside some 3rd-party handhelds running SteamOS).
jamie_ca··on Show HN: SudokuVariants – play and construct different variants of Sudoku
Looks neat.

The CtC community is pretty prolific, and if your colors could match theirs that'd be much easier to parse. https://youtu.be/mkomrpQG388?t=212 has most of them all at once, I think palindrome is the only one missing from there.

Also, if your solver could pick up shift for corner marks and control/command for center marks, that'd be a nice quality of life pickup compared to Sudokupad.

jamie_ca··on Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance
As an RSS user, I would love an RSS of the main page content, one entry per story over 5.5 is a perfectly reasonable baseline.

Also: It'd be great if you had a feed tag in your HTML head, so RSS readers could pick it up straight out of your homepage URL instead of needing to manually hunt for the right RSS link.

jamie_ca··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
Offtopic to politics, but browsers these days support arbitrary text anchors.

docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/URI/Fragment/Te...

your link: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...

jamie_ca··on Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
I did something with JSON back before there was reasonable native support - it's certainly not robust, but it handled a few syntax variants for a use case where we had an extra attribute column that serialized JSON, and wanted to surface one of the fields as a proper column on the table.

https://blog.tracefunc.com/2011/11/19/parsing-json-in-sql-ht...

jamie_ca··on Tailwind CSS v4.0 Beta 1
Also: When served from a CDN like your link above, popular CSS like Bootstrap had a decent chance of _already_ being in your browser's cache, so despite downloading more initially you'd come across sites using the same version that meant _no_ delay downloading CSS for it.
jamie_ca··on Show HN: Aide, an open-source AI native IDE
FYI the youtube embed on https://docs.codestory.ai/features is broken (both Firefox and Chrome, MacOS).

https://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/132.0.1/Darwin/en-US/x...

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