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jiffygiston I love software rendering

I really admire Woof[1] sourceport of DOOM and how it can achieve high fps at modern resolutions using software rendering (Sure, there are still GPU apis at work behind the scenes managing swapchain and all but rendering logic is still software). Also it's worth checking out for anybody who wants to see a good SDL3 codebase.

[1] https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/woof/

[2] https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom/ (simpler doom port from which woof inherited its rendering code)

jiffygiston Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

What's the origin of the name?

jiffygiston Using an old Android phone as a music player

I wonder does anyone here do the whole music piracy pipeline (e.g. downloading torrent -> cue splitting -> converting to lossy) entirely on their phone?

I personally find it more convenient to do that on my computer and then `adb push --sync` the PC music directory to the phone, but I'm curious what are other people's setups

jiffygiston Using an old Android phone as a music player

>using one of smartphone's main functions

jiffygiston Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

So where are bugs reported now?

jiffygiston Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

I didn't know openjdk was developed by Oracle. I always thought it was a community implementation of java as opposed to Oracle's proprietary implementation.

jiffygiston Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

Does the new episode work well in opensource ports? (don't feel like installing steam rn and don't care about nightdive port)

jiffygiston Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

We need unlockable bootloaders on ALL phones. Then many more OSes will come

jiffygiston Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

I didn't know Chocolate was getting SDL3 port moreso by icculus himself.

Of doom ports I know, Woof! already did migrate https://github.com/fabiangreffrath/woof

jiffygiston Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

I don't like WYSIWYG on the web. You do a long and tedious formatting of a forum post, then close the tab and it's all gone. I prefer to use a local text editor then Ctrl+V into web form. Which I can with markdown

jiffygiston Writing your own static website generator

Text is too small on mobile

jiffygiston Making Graphics Like it's 1993

Will definitely play when it's released. Doom is my favourite game and I enjoy playing it at 320x200.

jiffygiston Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler

Now that are some scary looking file names :D https://github.com/3WyUFvDOdCbBw7gOZHwcfgKF/ironwall/tree/ma...

Also first confused the name with Ironwail, the Quake 1 source port

jiffygiston Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

I on the other hand prefer epubs for fiction. I mostly read on the phone.

jiffygiston Dav2d

Where do I get example AV2 videos to test it?

jiffygiston Optophone

Any simulators so I can listen to how that sounds?

jiffygiston 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

I started playing not so long ago. Here's some good lists of tips that helped me. Although I had some headstart with SC2 experience :)

https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/22257-a21-multiplayer-...

https://gitlab.com/mentula0ad/0ad-tips-and-tricks

jiffygiston 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix

Germans are too op in my opinion. Appimage is much appreciated as the game is pain to compile. And it crashes less than previous version that's also good

jiffygiston Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)

I don't understand why would you ever want to have an empty directory. Besides if I see a directory named "build" I expect to be able to just nuke it any time without consequences.

jiffygiston Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Discord's voice rooms with screen sharing is a very cool feature i depend on daily. I haven't seen opensource messenger that implemented this yet.

jiffygiston Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

Stupid question as I never flied: does the limit include drinking water?

jiffygiston Chocolate Quake source port preserving original experience even bugs and quirks

Cool, but segfaults for me when I try to start a new game

jiffygiston Why can't HTML alone do includes?

On topic: what's the absolute minimal static site generator that can achieve this feature? I know things like Pelican can do it but it's pretty heavy. C preprocessor probably can be used for this...

jiffygiston LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo

I can recommend https://polski.info for Polish. Not FOSS, but at least non-commercial.

jiffygiston DOOM CAPTCHA

3 cybers, 240 cells, go!

jiffygiston DOOM CAPTCHA

I hate the borked sounds so much

jiffygiston Introducing Our New Name

Can recommend Glitch. A fun singleplayer parkour game with a story.

jiffygiston Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

Thanks for vterm, that's just what I need.

For dired I do have my bindings (one for xdg-open on a single file, another for custom command on a bunch of files).

jiffygiston Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?

- throw away c language mode and and rewrite it from scratch

- make dired more usable like a normal file manager. opening a file with the associated program that would persist after emacs closes should be its primary feature. ideally i want something like a mix of ranger/lf with dired

- make it have fully-featured terminal, not dumb terminal. make it easy to open lots of terminal windows. add a way to change terminal directory with fido or dired

- make working with ssh not so horribly laggy