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I have great memories of playing Jazz Jackrabbit 2 online multiplayer, if I'm not mistaken at some point the official game servers were killed and to still play online we had to patch it to connect to a server hosted by someone I only remember as being called Nimrod (I didn't remember that I knew this until I started writing my memories). I think he was from the UK.

I met a friend by being in a "clan" in JJ2 who kind of introduced me to caring about music, and I went to my first concert with. We are no longer in touch, but I do have one pen pal friend from that "clan" from another country who I still exchange birthday/christmas cards and gifts with for over 23 years now (and occasional messages throughout the year).

Having said all that, I haven't played the game in years though. I remember the excitement over Jazz Jackrabbit 3D that I believe never saw the day of light, or well I vaguely remember there being a playable demo. Not sure, I could probably quickly search for it online but I'll leave that to you, the reader.

I would've loved to see those early colors in person

Not related but somehow it reminded me that I had one of those casio pocket tvs and felt so cool that I could watch a _very_ limited amount of TV while on the go mid-late 90s, and how I even managed to hook it up to our local cable with a homemade cable to get even more channels when at home. I'm so grateful I got to live through those times and been in a fortunate enough position to play with 90s gadgets like that.

A browser that requires an account to use? No thanks.

The "why do i need an account" popup doesn't properly explain it to me either, syncing should be optional - let me use, or at least try, it without an account first.

I saw a hot spring and got a very lucky guess, I can imagine there are a lot of hard ones in there yeah!

I gave up after having to include a leap year (Rule 15), I don't know if this is a spoiler but I ended up with January99Pepsi?XXXVggd7maboutZrJapan (there was an emoji in there for the current moon phase but HN stripped it out)

Looking at the code it should be possible to get a lot further, in theory. Wonder how Paul is doing!

I don't use it and have no interest in it myself, but I recognise the value it has for many others.

I love working with Elixir and hope to be able to find a new gig where I can continue doing that. That's the hardest part unfortunately still.

But more ontopic, has anyone here already used these LiveView Streams in production? Based on this example it feels like I'm having to manage a lot more myself with the only real advantage being less memory usage, right?

I'm just wondering where/when it makes sense to play with this instead of, for example, temporary_assigns with phx-update="append". Are there more advantages than the memory usage reduction?

Could be interesting to open it up for other developers to implement in their own shopping apps!

What I love most about this is that it's basically the reverse of how 35mm photography was invented by Oskar Barnack. He wanted a more compact/portable camera to take on travels, because he was asthmatic, and ended up building a camera that could be used with 35mm film. (Or at least that's how I remembered the story, don't know how much of it is accurate)

I also wonder that about any audio/video DRM, but like most things it's probably something that is agreed upon in the many licenses that they'll protect the copyrighted material to their best ability. Even though everybody knows it's pointless and even ends up being a nuisance for some legit use cases like this story.

Just reminds me of years ago when building websites for clients they always wanted me to block right clicks and put a transparent image over a jpeg so people can't right click/save even though I told them it does nothing against people who want to copy the image. "But it's a bigger hurdle to do so!" well, not really.

(thanks for all your work!)

I understand the reasoning and especially when you put it like that it makes sense, the reason i feels weird to me is mainly because it's just different than many years of development with various frameworks (including Phoenix until this change). So it is more a "I don't like change!" comment ;)

For what it's worth, I mentioned that and the fact that you can use it however you want because it's such a fun and customisable framework, but in our production apps we just try to stick to defaults/recommended workflow so we do have all these files in the controller directory now.

I do still wonder if maybe the controller directory just needs a new name since it now contains more than just controllers, but I can't think of any good options and naming is hard.

We've been using 1.7.0 as rc for a while now and the verified routes especially have been much more enjoyable to use. Unifying components between controllers and liveview was also a welcome improvement

The only thing I really don't like is having the `page_html.ex` and `page_html/index.html.heex` etc files in `controllers` being the recommended workflow. It feels so weird to have the templates live there, luckily you can put them wherever you want so it's not a real problem

Haven't used streams yet but it looks interesting and looking forward to play with that as well.

That's interesting! When I started out I maybe felt the same but most of that was just not understanding it, and now to me it feels like one of the more explicit frameworks I've used, which I actually enjoy.

I could recommend reading http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/05/20/minimum-viable-phoe... which was posted on HN as well some years ago.

Now there's a name I haven't heard much in the last decades. Before I switched from Windows to MacOS I used their demo editor SciTE as my text editor of choice and was very happy with it.

Just to add on this `?useskin=vector-2022` will show the new one.

Either I don't understand what you are saying, or this is not unique to Elixir at all? Or both lol

I love using Elixir but I also like to think "right tool for the job" and imho Elixir is generally not the right tool for the job for command-line user interfaces. It's fun to experiment with though, of course.

Having said all of that that, something like this might be useful when writing custom Mix tasks inside Elixir projects!

Hm but you are saying the same as me, that "The people looking for freelancers rarely post". I never said they don't look at the freelancers who are looking, I haven't tried it myself so wouldn't know that. It's nice to know that happens though

I rarely see seeking freelancer entries here to be fair so to me, especially this soon after it was created, this does not feel that rare?

I've ran into issues with every browser I developed for (even to the point of the computer freezing in some Chrome bugs I remember) and have never felt like Safari was as annoying or frustrating as IE was back in the day (and _that_ is the main comparison being made in this post). In my 20+ years of front-end development with work supporting millions of users worldwide I can say without doubt, IE was much much worse than Safari is.

I don't know how many of the people making this comparison actually had to deal with IE 5.5/6/7/8 support on a daily basis back in those days or what exotic things people are doing now.

Safari does feel like it has more rendering bugs yes, but I did also say in my comment that I believe Safari should have more frequent updates because bugs hang around longer. But then again, you are still not guaranteed that people always have the latest version anyway, even in Chrome.

I just don't get this comparison to IE and this is the first time I thought I'd comment on it, but in the future I will not do it again. The era of IE sucks, but IE was IE and Safari is Safari, Firefox is Firefox and almost all other browsers are Chrome. We are all allowed our own views on this and I should not have commented at all I guess.

Happy new year!

*: p.s. Apple should allow different browser engines on iOS

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146633

See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146633

I'm just gonna comment on this instead of everyone and I won't reply after this because I've said my part.

In my opinion this is not comparable at all, slightly differently or prefixed property/attribute names are really very acceptable to me compared to the hacks we used to implement. Having to hack for multiple IEs while also ensuring those hacks are not applied to other browsers was a special kind of evil to battle, and we are not just talking about "oh IE does not support this so we need to do this another way" but also things like "oh IE like to double the specified padding because why not" - and then at some point they removed conditional comments because they were like "IE is good now." which of course it wasn't.

I develop for Safari amongst other browsers daily and have for years, and do not share these frustration everyone else seems to have for it. Do I agree there should be more frequent updates of Safari (also for older MacOS)? Yes. Do I agree iOS should allow other browser engines? Yes. Is supporting older Chromium engines annoying too? Yeah of course, I've run into that as well (don't have any concrete examples right now unfortunately). People like to think that you can expect Chrome to always be the latest version because of the auto updating, but I have experienced multiple issues caused by users with a (very) outdated version. Whether or not you support these depends on your business / target audience, I had to, and it was frustrating.

Different browser engines will always be different and implement standards at different rates, and standards are often implemented before they are finalised and some do this with prefixes and others do not. Supporting multiple browsers is part of the job, if you don't like it you should not be doing front-end web development.

I for one would hate living in a world that is run by Google (Chromium).

Oh for sure, having to support IE 5.5/6/7/8 at the same time was a nightmare of conditional comments and css hacks, and testing as you typically could not run multiple versions side by side due to the deep integration into Windows.

I believe querySelector/querySelectorAll supports all native CSS selectors, including attribute selectors. But jQuery does hahve custom selectors as well (at least last I used it, which is over 10 years ago)

Yeah I would have expected more libraries to be available for this as well, maybe if I finish my implementation I'd consider following your example and making libraries out of it. But I only have a hobby use-case and historically I never finish those lol

It looks like it only does client to server (or at least their guide only does this). I'm working on server to server. But for me it's a hobby project anyway so I'll just keep trucking along with my stuff.

But I'm also not developing with NodeJS so wouldn't work for me anyway.

I've started working on a custom ActivityPub implementation because I am interested by it, but I have to say my impressions so far is that it is more complicated to implement than I originally expected. I find the docs lacking, the test suite hasn't worked in a long time, either. Someone even made a document explaining how to read the relevant specs[0]

Right now Mastodon seems to be the biggest player, but curious what the second/third biggest would be? Pleroma? Having Tumblr add compatibility seems like it could be huge.

[0]: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/

I'm in the about:blank gang too, and I hate that in Safari on iOS you can no longer have a blank tab since a few versions. You can hide all the things on the "start page" but then you will still see the edit button.