leonard-somero

Show HN: Static Home Page

Posted by leonard-somero on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:24PM
from the show-hn dept.

I figured I needed a persistent site for my works, where my marketing efforts and long-form musings aren't washed away by social media doomscrolls or group chats.By declaring it's all hand-written HTML files without JS (+1 global CSS file), I have achieved an affordable and super-fast read-only website, which I hope sets an example.

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Re:Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025 on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:50AM (#44039301)

I'm an indie game developer with over 10 years of experience. I'm not using Unity or Unreal, but I do have some frameworks that handle things like rendering graphics or playing audio. However, I write all the game logic, data manipulation, and entity management from scratch for each game I make. It seems to be the smoothest option for me, since I have full control over how my games actually operate, but I don't have to reinvent the wheel as far as the low-level architecture goes.

Re:Making Video Games (Without an Engine) in 2025 on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @04:43AM (#44039262)

It really is a miracle that any video games get shipped at all.

Re:Itch.io Taken Down by Funko on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:47AM (#42364554)

I am Leonard Somero, I run verysoftwares.itch.io. I have over 300 followers and a game with 20k+ plays that has been repeatedly featured on the front page.

This certainly changed my morning routine! I am glad to hear that the reason wasn't me deleting my Twitter from my page. My first panic reaction was thinking it was me who's caused it, due to some kind of ad revenue conflict.

Ever seen the movie Summer Wars? I felt like the protagonist for a moment there, but glad it turns out it was just some 2020s AI nonsense.

Either way, there's surely an engineer somewhere who's very busy right now.