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babuskov

5,362 karmajoined il y a 15 ans
Started programming when I was 9. Built my first game using assembler on Amiga 500 when I was 13. Later moved to C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript.

Founded a couple of open source projects, most remarkable being flamerobin.org, which is now the default administration GUI for the open-source FirebirdSQL DBMS. I got really close with people in that community (had beers with most core developers ;) and even presented some papers/sessions at three Firebird conferences. I also run the official Firebird FAQ website at firebirdfaq.org.

Wrote some shareware software available at guacosoft.com. Most successful product is a home-inventory application called Attic Manager.

From 2009 got interested into web space, but mostly kept alive by making accounting software.

In 2014, tested waters on Android, built a space shooter game Drone Invaders in just 23days: http://bigosaur.com/blog/23days

In 2018, built and released Rogue Bit, a puzzle game about computer internals. You play as a single bit of RAM who became sentient and decide to escape the computer into the real world:

http://roguebit.bigosaur.com

From 2015 to 2021, built "Son of a Witch", a roguelike brawler best explained as a mix of Castle Crashers and The Binding of Isaac. It's available on Steam and Nintendo Switch:

https://sonofawitchgame.com

Currently working on a puzzle game called Block Buster Billy, which can be best described as Baba Is You meets Math:

https://bigosaur.com/bbb

You can see my progress on my Twitter: @bigosaur.

You can e.mail me at milan_at_bigosaur dot_com.

Submissions

Latest Debian 12 update opens MariaDB server to the internet

4 points·by babuskov·il y a 18 heures·3 comments

Angel Investor Simulator

guacosoft.com
2 points·by babuskov·il y a 5 jours·0 comments

Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries

github.com
283 points·by babuskov·le mois dernier·135 comments

Why I'm no longer releasing Linux builds of my games

bigosaur.com
2 points·by babuskov·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

comments

babuskov
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
That's the problem with the definition of "healthy". No single food is "healthy" on it's own. It's a wrong way to look at it and why most people fail at finding a good diet. There's no super food you can just eat unlimited amounts of.

A diet can be healthy if it's the nutrient combination of different foods that result in certain number of calories, protein, fat, carbs, minerals and vitamins per unit of time.
babuskov
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
I presume users lost access to everything.
babuskov
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
The question is "can anyone". Makes you wonder why the USA hasn't built one? Maybe the latest technology required some rare discovery. Just like nobody can replicate the taste of Coca Cola, maybe there some tiny detail that they discovered by experimenting.
babuskov
·il y a 28 jours·discuss
If they are spies, they are taking their time to use the data for sure. I run servers with them since 2009 or so. That's 17 years.

I feel like the whole password thing was meant as a protection against SPAM or using servers for nefarious purposes as they know who's really behind every server.

Although, I can also see how real criminals would work around that easily by supplying fake identities. Sounds like one of those "why we can't have nice things". Well, at least the password I gave them 17 years ago has expired since.
babuskov
·il y a 28 jours·discuss
I think I could if I had one. My engine uses SDL2 and I developed it using macOS initially. In fact, I had a working build until about 6 months ago, when I replaced my old High Sierra install with Debian. It's an old Intel MacBook Pro, but the game compiles on Android and Nintendo Switch as well, so I think it should work on newer Apple Silicon as well.
babuskov
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
It's possible if you have wide or deep domain knowledge. Back in 2007 I made a Q&A website related to the open source FirebirdSQL database with around 350 articles in about one month. Although, those were very short and I had a huge archive from a mailing list with multiple years of questions and answers to source from.

10 months is a long time. You can write one article per day and do it easily.
babuskov
·il y a 30 jours·discuss
Angel Investor Simulator:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4771830/Angel_Investor_Si...

You bid against other investors in a show similar to the Shark Tank and then you assign advisors to help the startup grow and finally cash out after IPO.

The ideas that startups have are wacky for the fun factor, but the economic simulation underneath is realistic.

There will be a free playable demo soon.
babuskov
·le mois dernier·discuss
The rabbit hole started as a major P2P issue in Israel and possibly other middle east countries and further investigations revealed it seems to be a worldwide problem.
babuskov
·il y a 2 mois·discuss
The default NGINX PHP integration uses this:

    # regex to split $uri to $fastcgi_script_name and $fastcgi_path
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
    set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
babuskov
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
Surprised nobody mentioned Fish Fillets 2, which is a top 3 puzzle game imho.

My list:

    1. Antichamber
    2. Fish Fillets 2
    3. Baba is You
    4. Ittle Dew (esp. the Master Dungeon)
    5. An Architect's Adventure
    6. Cosmic Express
    7. Talos Principle
    8. Stephen's Sausage Roll
    9. Portal
    10. Cocoon
Fish Fillets 2 looks simple, but it's one of the toughest puzzle games out there. Especially getting the stars on each level. I love it because the rules are simple, everything's there on one screen, but figuring it out requires a lot of out of the box thinking.
babuskov
·il y a 3 mois·discuss
If the extension does something that isn't changing, like JSON Formatting, I guess it's best to disable updates right after you install it.

I just did this for all extensions I have in Firefox. Not sure about extensions like uBlock though? Doesn't it fetch new lists of sites to block or something like that? Or is that done separately from updates?
babuskov
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
+1 from me.

Motorola has such great quality/price ratio and the user experience is decent. There's still some nagging and such but overall it's much better than the competition.

But I still can't get over my old iPhone 6. That phone size was just perfect. Easy to hold and do everything with one hand, easy to fit into any pocket.

I really want an Android like that. I don't need 3 cameras and bunch of other nonsense.
babuskov
·il y a 7 mois·discuss
HN has no Markdown, but you can start each line with 2 spaces to format code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Funny that you picked == as an example when == is very counter intuitive in Java and is one of the common pitfalls for beginners:

    String a = new String();
    String b = new String();
    a = "test";
    b = a + "";
    
    if (a == "test")
    {
        // true
    }

    if (b == "test")
    {
        // false
    }

    if (a == b)
    {
        // false
    }
        
Just like PHP, you have to read the docs to use it properly.
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Does Roblox run on Linux?
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Only if you do it on the same computer. The restriction is still there if you try to, for example, run one game on your PC and another on Steam Deck.
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
> does Steam still disallow accounts from playing more than one independently owned game at a time without special procedures?

Yes. I just tried launching one game on Steam Deck and another one on my desktop and it showed a message:

> Error - Steam: You are logged in on another computer already playing Railbound. Launching Clutchtime™: Basketball Deckbuilder here will disconnect the other session from Steam.
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Not really. It still has a library level lock. What Steam Families has enabled is to play games from each other's libraries at the same time. For example, if my account has a game A, and your has a game B, I can play the game B while you play the game A. This used to be disabled before.

You still cannot play a game C from my library while I play the game A from my own library.

The only way to be able to play any game you want would be to create a separate account for each game.
babuskov
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Same for Play Store. I have 2 games and I keep getting offers all the time. The last one offered $2000 for the developer account or a $100 monthly rent.

From their email pitch:

> We’re now offering from $500 to $2000 for a one-time purchase of a developer account that includes apps, or a rental deal starting from $100.

> No hidden conditions — quick process, secure agreement, and immediate payment upon verification.

> We’re simply looking for reliable accounts to publish our client apps quickly, and yours could be a perfect match.
babuskov
·il y a 7 ans·discuss
> This makes it much easier to go into the device and physically disable the radios on it.

Wouldn't opening the device void the warranty?