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vbtechguy··on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
At later stages of development i use Gemini 2.5 Pro for brain storm sessions to formulate what I want and once I have it fleshed out, I ask it to summarize it into AI actionable prompt that is very detailed that I can copy and paste into a new chat session with any AI llm model that would have everything needed to implement what I want
vbtechguy··on Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
That would be one long commit description. I have had prompts in 1000s of word lengths!
vbtechguy··on Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Glad to hear!
vbtechguy··on Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gist of it was

1. Used https://gemini.google.com Gemini 2.5 Pro canvas mode for Gemini Advanced subscription account to ask it to build Atari missile command game in HTML5. Tweeted about it at https://x.com/George_SLiu/status/1906236287931318747 almost one shotted but after I passed level 1, it jumped to level 182 and pulverised my cities and bases LOL

2. Iterations in subsequent chat sessions in Gemini web to fix it up, add in-game store, leaderboard and end-hame AI analysis and when Gemini 'something went wrong' messages, jumped over to Claude 3.7 Sonnet via Claude Pro subscription web interface to finish off the task

3. A few days ago, I tried Cline with VSC for the first time with Openrouter AI API key and Gemini 2.5 Pro free LLM model has helped me with further development. Also now trying out Google Firebase for more Gemini 2.5 Pro access https://studio.firebase.google.com/ ^_^

vbtechguy··on Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Yeah that sometimes happens as LLM model didn't like the generated JSON format for some reason.
vbtechguy··on Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Cheers I updated the gameplay logic a bit for this so it is better including chain reaction explosions :) Work in progress to dial in gameplay logic. But thanks for suggestions.
vbtechguy··on Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
Well if you play longer at higher levels, you will see you need that cash and upgrades as it gets harder
vbtechguy··on WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
+1 that would be very useful. This mirror implementation at least mirrors the official wordpress.org plugin json metadata and checksum files so you can verify as well https://github.com/centminmod/wordpress-plugin-mirror-poc#ho...

Though still limiting as you can only checksum files after plugin installation. You probably need a staging WordPress install to verify mirror plugins before rolling out for production usage

vbtechguy··on If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed
There's discussions on this https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1frd37p/its_time...
vbtechguy··on WP Engine Reprieve
There are repos that folks can mirror

https://core.svn.wordpress.org/ https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/ https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/

but rest if the infrastructure is needed https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/s/bU4EzLozho

vbtechguy··on Cloudflare now uses post-quantum cryptography to talk to your origin server
Yup Cloudflare Post-Quatum key exchange connections to my Nginx origin working nicely https://blog.centminmod.com/2023/10/03/2860/how-to-enable-cl... :)
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimization for Wordpress Cache Effectiveness
Yes. Though the point is to illustrate that $5/month 1click toggle button can almost give you same gains as a full pro optimised configuration by expert page speed folks. For average joe Wordpress users that is a very good value add for the price
vbtechguy··on Benchmarking static website hosting providers
Cloudflare doesn’t cache HTML pages by default only static files https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172516. You need to specifically tell Cloudflare to cache HTML pages via page rules etc https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/202775670

Cloudflare Workers don’t cache by default either for HTML pages only static files unless you write the Worker to cache HTML pages.

So if they tested on default index.html page then it would of been a Cloudflare Cache miss/bypass which may explain their results.

vbtechguy··on Automatic Platform Optimization, Starting with WordPress
I did some page speed comparison tests with Webpagetest, GTMetrix, Page Speed Insights and FastOrSlow tools for my Wordpress blog https://community.centminmod.com/threads/cloudflare-wordpres... using Cloudflare Automatic Platform Optimizations versus without APO (with my own custom Cloudflare Worker cache + Origin PHP-FPM fastcgi_cache cache setup). Results are very close so you get a lot of bang for your buck with CF APO 1 click toggle button if you're not well versed in page speed optimisations.

However, CF APO seems to have a few teething issues to sort out

- https://community.cloudflare.com/t/apo-breaks-google-fonts/2... - https://community.cloudflare.com/t/automatic-platform-optimi... - https://community.cloudflare.com/t/automatic-platform-optimi...

For US$5/month CF APO, has a lot of value if you don't want to go down the rabbit hole for page speed optimisations and rolling out your own Cloudflare Worker cache configuration.

vbtechguy··on Show HN: Caddy 2
I'm hoping Caddy v2 performance improves over time too https://caddy.community/t/caddy-v2-http-2-http-3-benchmarks/... :)
vbtechguy··on Show HN: Caddy 2
some benchmarks posted at https://caddy.community/t/caddy-v2-http-2-http-3-benchmarks/...
vbtechguy··on "DigitalOcean Killed Our Company"
Really depends on underlying hardware of the Linode and DO VPS servers as they can vary greatly especially on DO depending on datacenter and region you end up in. Newer DO datacenters getting newer hardware so difference compared to older DO datacenters is huge - benchmarks of same DO droplet plan on different hardware https://community.centminmod.com/threads/digitalocean-us-15-...
vbtechguy··on Zstandard v1.4.0
should be the same though zstd defaults to 1 cpu thread AFAIK so probably why you seeing differences ?
vbtechguy··on Zstandard v1.4.0
I build my own custom tar 1.32 rpm with zstd support https://community.centminmod.com/threads/custom-tar-archiver... and can confirm you can pass options that way.
vbtechguy··on Zstandard v1.4.0
Posted my zstd 1.4.0 compression benchmarks https://community.centminmod.com/threads/round-3-compression... - looking good :)
vbtechguy··on DigitalOcean Marketplace
nice just needs more centos compatibility https://ideas.digitalocean.com/ideas/DO-I-2983
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
it's on the very first sentence on the site (not the forums) https://centminmod.com/ linking to https://centminmod.com/lemp.html
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
i believe those are build against non-OpenSSL 1.1.1 branch so don't have TLS 1.3 supported by official nginx docker images.
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
yes I am using Nginx as a primary web server which is behind Cloudflare using Cloudflare Strict SSL - hence glad to see Cloudflare communicate with my origin via TLS 1.3
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
Indeed in ideal world that would be the perfect solution.
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
Yeah LTS or bleeding edge is always time relative. For example OpenSSL 1.1.1 is the new LTS release https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111/

> After two years of work we are excited to be releasing our latest version today - OpenSSL 1.1.1. This is also our new Long Term Support (LTS) version and so we are committing to support it for at least five years.

vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
Yeah confirmed no TLS 1.3 0-RTT early data support on origin backend communications right now https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-speak-tls-1-3-...
vbtechguy··on Cloudflare Enables HTTPS TLS 1.3 Backend Origin Communication
Yeah you're at the mercy of what version of OpenSSL is used by your Nginx binaries.

I always like to play with bleeding edge latest tech so TLS 1.3 is a must for me, so I always build my Centmin Mod Nginx binaries using Nginx mainline 1.15 branch with end user selectable choice of OpenSSL 1.1.1 branch or BoringSSL crypto libraries - both allow my Nginx binaries to support TLS 1.3 https://community.centminmod.com/threads/centmin-mod-nginx-h... :)

vbtechguy··on GNU Wget 1.20 Released
update from https://twitter.com/ruehsen/status/1069907108869623808

Ok, that was the inofficial/internal alpha tarball on http://alpha.gnu.org - that is meant for the translator team only. They just fetch the .pot file. The offical release tarballs on http://ftp.gnu.org are ok. (I don't have ycombinator account, can't answer there).

vbtechguy··on GNU Wget 1.20 Released
seems they they messed up the wget-1.20.tar.gz extracting it has a wget-1.19.5 directory name instead of wget-1.20 named directory

  tar xvzf wget-1.20.tar.gz | head -n3
  wget-1.19.5/
  wget-1.19.5/GNUmakefile
  wget-1.19.5/Makefile.am
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