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Re:Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022 on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:14AM (#32688907)
ha! OK, I didn't know that. Well... whoever draws emoji on such platforms ought to know about that. Maybe I'll file a bug...!
Re:Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @12:59PM (#32665069)
Ironically enough, that's a platform choice: it's the tractor emoji glyph, U+1F69C. On lots of platforms it's red or yellow :-) (Not on desktop Firefox, which is where my screenshot came from in the blog post.) Switching to dark mode may help it be a little more visible for people who find it a problem? It's a good point, though...
Re:Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022 on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @10:39AM (#32662595)
That's a fair point. I tend to think in prose rather than visually, so I don't have diagrams already, but it would have been a good idea to put together graphical things to go along with the post to make it a better explanation! Good suggestion. Are there drawings or diagrams that you think would have been particularly useful?

Show HN: Farmbound – A Diurnal Game of Farming

Posted by stuartlangridge on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @08:29AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://kryogenix.org/farmbound/

Farmbound is a puzzle game about farming. Combine or fertilise seeds into crops and crops into fields; put scythes and tractors next to crops and fields for points. Think of it like a cross between a match-3 game and Little Alchemy. The twist is that you get the same sequence of items for the whole day: if you play again, you’ll get the same things in the same order, up until midnight UTC when...

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Re:Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:01PM (#25689597)
Thank you! That's very gracious of you to say so, and Unclack is cool :-)
Re:Chatbots need a personality on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @05:47AM (#15805926)
Yup. Shilling my own work here, https://kryogenix.org/code/the-ux-of-text-fusion/ is a talk which explicitly calls that out -- we can do better than this, and whoever works out how to deliver chat interfaces where you can't imagine the underlying nodejs commands will have people love their stuff. (And the answer certainly isn't "pretend to be a human", either, as you know; be a bot, be known to be a bot, and have people relate to you anyway. But now I'm just reiterating the talk.)
Re:A Standard Password Change API on Monday February 27, 2017 @04:45AM (#13743054)
That would certainly be simpler, in that it just fits in to the existing password login, but I'm not sure it helps all that much here? Mainly because the point of this suggested approach is discoverability; your password manager can change your password without you having to manually do it. Most of the time, this doesn't apply; a password manager knows that such-and-such-a-site has such-and-such a username and a password, but it doesn't know how to actually log in with them, just that these are the values, and maybe these are some form fields on a particular URL to fill them into.
Re:Purple map, 2012 edition on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @02:44PM (#4754836)
Good call. Map updated to include a key!
Re:Purple map, 2012 edition on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @01:59PM (#4754665)
ha! I wish I'd thought of that tagline for the map. I might steal that at some future date, if you don't mind :)