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what a beautiful article, thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
This is the story with most frontend developers, they are not usually from a typical computer science background.
Cursor 3 is a complete rewrite, its no longer a fork.
What an amazing piece of information in a thread about a game engine, thanks for sharing this.
We built Wetarseel with a focus on keeping the "mental overhead" of infrastructure as low as possible.
The Hardware: > We’re using a single Hetzner VPS (8 vCPU, 32GB RAM, 200GB NVMe) for ~$25/month. Compared to the big cloud providers, the vertical scaling headroom here is massive for the price.
The Stack:
Orchestration: Coolify (self-hosted PaaS). It handles SSL, GitHub-triggered Red/Blue deployments, and Docker management.
Runtime: Next.js and Bun.
Database: SQLite. Having the DB as a local file on NVMe makes latency negligible and simplifies backups (it's just a file copy).
Workers: BullMQ via Redis.
Storage: Self-hosted S3-compatible storage on the same node.
The goal was to see how far we could get before needing a distributed system. So far, the performance has been excellent, and "it just works." Happy to answer any questions about the setup or the trade-offs of going single-server.
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icemelt8 on Friday January 30, 2026 @09:39AM
from the show-hn dept.
We recently moved the infrastructure for Wetarseel away from complex cloud setups to a single "big" server. The goal was to reduce both the monthly bill and the "mental tax" of managing distributed services.The Hardware: We’re using a single Hetzner VPS (~$25 USD/mo) providing:8 vCPUs32GB RAM200GB NVMeThe Architecture: Instead of a fleet of microservices, we run everything on this one node...
> I’m typing this blog on a HP ZBook Ultra G1a 14. Question to HP, who names this crap? Why do these companies insist on having the most confusing product lineups and names.
The reason is that they are not serious companies, this is why anything other than a real macbook and with a real macOS is not worth having spent time on.
Even if one game doesn't work on this (there are many) and works on Windows, why shouldn't I just use Windows?
Thanks this is very helpful, can you please look at the code more, specially around inserts and reads why its so slow?
I am a lowly frontend developer who got into the SQLite hype due to twitter and DHH from Rails, didn't know how bad SQLite was.
Beware of pocketbase! I am running my startup wetarseel.ai. You'll be badly locked into one instance with one sqlite file, plus its queries are not mapping to SQL, try a bulk delete and it will choke your entire system, plus other footguns.
very good, but no thanks, I'd rather use the state of the art M series mac chips with polished MacOS
but games are a niche, nobody in my circle or extended circle plays video games.
I grew up learning Flash and started my love for programming due to ActionScript 2 then 3, is there anything like this today I am looking for something for my 10 year old daughter.
not at all, Shadcn has been a game changer for all young, bootstrapped and individual developers. Who now have a professional looking UI available for free and easy to use.
There are echo chambers and availability biases, it takes a bigger person to know that they live in one.
default UI of the internet
Once again people will find out that no software should be free.
ReactJS is pretty consistent since last 5 years and probably won't be changing for next 5 years.
you are right, its an actual movie called Planet
Software engineering, all software companies now pay for the VSCode copilot subscription.
> VS Code is not related to it in any shape or form
Except they are made by the same company? and literally own the trademark for both?
umm I don't know what you are talking about, I use a Github Copilot 40 USD subscription in VSCode to code using various models, and this is the industry standard now in my region, as most employers are now giving employees the 10 USD subscription.
be careful maybe the idiots will be the only one left with money, and the smart people like you could be homeless.