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Off Topic / Re: re: new year's resolutions?

« on: April 03, 2024, 02:56:28 AM »

Quote from: DurkaDude on April 02, 2024, 06:42:26 PM

I thought https://dungeons.block.land/forum/ was your blog?

first of all what. secondly do I look like pecon to you

Quote from: Ladios on April 02, 2024, 11:50:12 PM

is this a trap link? It looks like a trap link.

it's not a trap link, it's pecon's site

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General Discussion / Re: Help appreciated: I can't post to the Game Modes board?

« on: April 01, 2024, 10:02:30 PM »

is the file larger than 2MB?

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Off Topic / re: new year's resolutions?

« on: April 01, 2024, 08:29:15 PM »

https://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=328286.0
thread too old unfortunately. so here's a new one. I don't have a blog so yall have to deal with it

anyway update part 2: not going well now. it was fine for most of february, and I also did the strength training on alternating days as mentioned for a few weeks too, but then something (I don't even remember what) disrupted the routine and I've seriously been struggling to get back into it. and now it's getting warm here again and that makes it much less appealing on top of all my normal executive dysfunction trouble. before I even realized march is already over. here's hoping though

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Forum Games / Re: Blockland Vending Machine! (OP missed 10 year anniversary and should feel bad)

« on: March 25, 2024, 11:54:56 PM »

you get jacob geller's latest, Art for No One

side note: this thread is significantly closer to its 20-year anniversary than it is to the 10-year anniversary mentioned in the title. if this forum is still around in two years we will see that time come

I insert a half-eaten box of assorted cookies from walmart

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums

« on: March 24, 2024, 03:58:05 PM »

Quote from: Aide33 on March 21, 2024, 07:10:19 PM

that's because there is an element of loveual tension to every political debate. if someone told me you spent that much time arguing with nerdy men and didn't come out some kind of gay I would be surprised.

kind of gay to say that

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums

« on: March 18, 2024, 08:59:16 PM »

Quote from: Master Matthew² on March 18, 2024, 05:48:06 PM

ftfy

it's all different types of gay babes. love that for u tho

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Off Topic / Re: The Chronology of the Blockland Forums

« on: March 18, 2024, 03:18:11 PM »

master matthew loving gayyyyyyyyyy

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you

« on: March 16, 2024, 12:21:25 AM »

I do web development, i love react and stuff like that (especially svelte baby hell yeah baby) (also preact is good if you're really a fan of the react model but want Faster). I agree with aide that it's definitely the best Run Everywhere solution. ultimately ease of development is an important trait, leads to more maintainable software with fewer bugs. like you may think modern software is buggy but if facebook had to make their website in C it would not be capable of the kinds of widespread sociological influence that it is because you just wouldn't be able to use it

although there definitely is a problem with developers (in general, but as a web dev myself i feel entitled to say that it's especially bad in this field) simply not caring about software quality and performance and resource management. a degree of performance issues is caused simply by the use of these higher level languages which hide a lot of it from you, but i would venture to say that most of it is just because devs don't care enough. lack of unit (or other forms of automated) testing is like a forgetin epidemic. there's almost none anywhere. trying to find an employer that cares about it is a pipe dream these days. including it on his little list is the only good thing joel spolsky ever did for the software industry (and contributing to the founding of stack exchange was one of his worst)

electron is bad in the way that it's like, a single runtime, but every single application has its own instance of it. that's just loving stupid. like we knew better in the 90s. there's no real excuse. otherwise however it's a pretty good way to develop a piece of desktop software that's trivially multiplatform. as long as you care. but if you don't care, then it doesn't really matter what you use to make it, it's gonna suck anyway. but for this reason I generally just advocate for making websites. everyone can use whatever runtime they want and frankly you can do just about anything. I feel like the number of things you genuinely can't do in a browser that you can with a piece of desktop software is pretty low and mostly nonessential

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