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For what it's worth, you can still play it today if you want to. I set up Solar Realms Elite a while back on my BBS with help of Amit's instructions found here[1]. In the spirit of things it's pretty funny having to circumvent a Y2K bug by setting the date to 12/31/1999, but it works flawless after that.

[1] - http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/Articles/SRE-Docu...

As mentioned there are plenty of engines mature and worthy to develop with, like Godot.

Advising to homebrew everything with an LLM just sounds insane to me. Cognitive overhead of what? Using well thought out and standardized libraries that have proper documentation? Creating a new engine with an LLM is only going to achieve the opposite of fully understanding your codebase.

At that point I'd rather re-install the whole machine. Beats 3 hours of wrangling NTFS permissions and inheritance.

So I'm guessing this will work mainly for customers that are running actual compute or K8S already?

The real challenge of a Cloud exit is undoing the years of gradually getting vendor locked-in. Not only do you use the services it provides, the software you might have written also uses the SDK's, is tightly coupled etc. I'm not even taking IAM into account, which is vertically integrated everywhere, in the equation.

And this isn't only on a technical level but also organizational. So i'm out of the cloud, my staff still doesn't know anything about managing dedicated servers and other solutions. I'm now fully dependent on a firm which main focus is doing migrations? How would that work?

What kind of business is your target audience here?

There is an old Dutch saying which goes: "Trust comes afoot and leaves on horseback". When you're in the compliance business you cannot fumble this ball, but you have.

Something tells me GPG would be great for this concept, but it's probably not as accessible as to get people to paste a JSON somewhere.

Looks great. I was a user of babybuddy[1] and one the pluses was that I could self-host and be in control + had an API. Now that last bit was a bit overkill.

It had one feature that's maybe essential and that I'm missing here, and that is being able to share the app and data with your partner so both are in control of monitoring, maybe I'm overlooking it but I can imagine that's hard to integrate with a PWA that does not use accounts.

One last thing: "no accounts", but filling in the email field is mandatory, i'd skip that.

Nice job!

[1] - https://github.com/babybuddy/babybuddy

How else would I connect to my BBS to play L.O.R.D. and check FidoNet.

The website does not show anything on how the product is used, which is kind of important for me as a potential customer. Especially if it's going to be effectively handling my copy/pasting of sensitive information.

Does it use some client, what do I need to install on my devices (if supported) and what permissions does it need etc? Instead I'm greeted by a login page.

It's not transparent enough for me how the product is used before signing up and that's a huge turn off.

"Somewhat biased" is a gross understatement here, holy crap.

If you're on iOS or MacOS I can highly recommend NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/).

I'm not sure if i fit in the group this is meant for but as a point of feedback: I really can't make up from your description and the front page what youphenom actually _is_ or does. The descriptions and examples on the website could use a lot of improvement to deliver the context and message, it's just too vague.

The general styling of the app and website look and feel a bit outdated, maybe a bit resemblant of how apps looked like on the early iPhone. I think this could be a big limiting factor in attracting new users for your platform.

I hope this isn't too harsh or blunt, I think the combination of games and social networking could work, but only if it's executed really well in order to attract the users it needs.

I can recommend organizing some feedback sessions with testers or users that are outside of your team or company and gather first impressions in order to improve on the above.

One of the stable open source projects that is running the webradio for our foundation that promotes new bands for years now. Buster Neece truly is a legend and a saint in tirelessly developing and offering support for Azurecast as well (and putting up with all the demanding people that come along with it.).

Although i liked the first bit of Zen (Which this article seems to be referencing), it quicky lost me in the second half where Pirsig goes rambling on on his quasi-filosofic subjects. Definitely gave me hard time to keep on reading.

The Dutch government is unfortunately known for having IT projects fail constantly, they've already accumulated an enormous technical debt. They outsource a lot because the current staff is either close to retirement or just can't be motivated anymore to put in the effort. Hearing this is the least surprising to be honest.

I used to work at a company that recovered and decommissioned freon. If some tech came by with a cylinder filled with R12 it would many times mysteriously disappear from storage. Probably because it sells for an insane price and is very rare in my region.