chaoticmass

25 days agodiscuss

When I was in highschool I started writing a game in Qbasic. Along the way, I wanted it to have a console (like Quake) where you could enter commands and modify the game as you were running it. This lead me to create a scripting engine in Qbasic, and long story short, I’ve been on a yak shaving epic quest now for almost 30 years now. No game, but I have a hybrid C / Lua game engine/general purpose application platform. Still tinkering and still no end in sight. I’m having fun though!

chaoticmass

3 months agodiscuss

I don’t know if it was just me but I had bad luck with my holy pandas from them. I build 3 different boards using them and they all started having issues within a few months of use. Double bboounce, and keys nt htting. This was several years ago mind you, so maybe they eventually did get the quirks worked out, but by then I’d gotten over the custom board hobby.

chaoticmass

3 months agodiscuss

I consume a probably unhealthy amount of YouTube and have for years now. I’ve had Premium since the beginning (still only paying $7.99 a month). At least there’s studies that show directed consumption that I do when I manually search and find stuff to watch is less harmful than the idle scrolling for shorts that you get on TikTok and YouTube shorts.

chaoticmass

9 months agodiscuss

Not really fair to compare the two geographic regions. Nobody wants to live on the streets in Dallas or Houston. It’s way too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. That said, living in Dallas I have seen the odd tent city pop up under some freeway overpasses but they don’t stick around very long so I guess the city does do something about it.

chaoticmass

10 months agodiscuss

My own project is on there still!

http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/89_exshell.html

chaoticmass

7 years agodiscuss

I have a similar story. I got hired on to replace some PHP web apps, each one written using a different framework. Each one out of date, unpatched, unknown dependencies, no easy way to bring up to date-- tied to specific old PHP versions. A big mess. The IT director was pretty savvy and said he wanted a clean rewrite without frameworks, something I was all too happy to do.

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