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Re:Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:59PM (#44446084)
Agreed. I actually added the crossword version here https://wordpivot.com/crossword/ but it is FAR harder than I thought. I'm still play testing it.

Also, writing a solver for these things is also surprisingly difficult, but fun!

Re:Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @12:57PM (#44446062)
Yeah, I am starting to appreciate that view a bit more now after also struggling with the native keyboard. I already started working on adding that to Word Pivot.
Re:Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @11:05PM (#44439911)
Thanks for letting me know, I will check on it!
Re:Show HN: A little word puzzle game I made on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @09:41PM (#44439545)
Thanks for the feedback.

> The rules are a bit unintuitive. Definitely surprising that horizontal words don't have to be words.

You are not the first person to say this, and I am starting to agree. I think that more basic ruleset is more fun and far more intuitive. Especially given the current UI layout. I am going to spin up a new version with that ruleset I think.

Thanks!

Re:I Dropped the Production Database on a Friday Night on Friday June 20, 2025 @11:43PM (#44334300)
Uhh, no, the answer is not to avoid cascading deletes. The answer is to not develop directly on a production database and to have even the most basic of backup strategies in place. It is not hard.

Also, “on delete restrict” isn’t a bad policy either for some keys. Make deleting data difficult.

Re:Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua on Thursday May 15, 2025 @10:02PM (#44001202)
This is super cool. I have been using TypeScript To Lua (https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua) for a little game side project and it works quite well, I am pleased with it. It does end up generating a lot of Lua code though because it has to support all of TypeScript’s features, which isn’t ideal. I’d expect Teal’s output to be much more concise Lua which has me interested.
Re:rlimit.com – rate-limiting made easy on Monday March 11, 2024 @02:23AM (#39665368)
I can do this with two lines in my nginx config. I have no idea why I would ever consider using another service for this if all it does is rate limiting.

Also, 100ms is not fast.

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