Widdershin

Brogue was released in 2009 for what it’s worth.

One of the other bidders, like when Yahoo won the bidding in the early 2010s.

Try add it to the Gemfile of a modern Rails project, the dependencies are very out of date and it won’t install.

This is the sort of thing people said about Blender for a long time, and my understanding is that it’s now often used in commercial contexts.

Not a given by any means, but it’s happened before and it will happen again.

Gonna get even worse once this sort of work is outsourced to language models en masse

Sure, but a lot of studios still maintain and upgrade bespoke game engines to ship projects.

All it would really take is a company of decent scale deciding they want to base their engine around Godot and having an appetite to upstream some meaningful work.

Treesitter based highlighting can handle nested languages in some cases, maybe that’s available for your editor?

I missed this comment first time around, but I really appreciate this write-up.

I apologize for being a bit snide in my original challenge, I'm fairly sensitive to the "why don't you just" attitude, but I agree with pretty much everything you have to say here.

I have a very similar approach around enumerating and testing assumptions when the going gets tough, and similarly have found that has enabled me to solve a handful of problems previously claimed impossible.

I think the tautological issue with our initial framing is that if you're able to easily identify these problems you probably are a subject matter expert. In many ways it's the outsider art of analytical problem solving - established wisdom should not be sacred.

Never considered that Memento was a cinematic adaption of Reflections on Trusting Trust.

Can you give any examples of times you’ve easily anticipated X when a whole field of subject matter experts have demonstrably overlooked it?

This has happened a few times to me.

First was some downhill skateboarding projects - a bushing recommendation system and a site that allowed me to search all NZ skate shops from one place.

A popular US skate shop posted on Reddit looking for interns, but they weren’t interested in hiring so remotely.

Fast forward a week and the CTO got in touch to say that he’d interviewed a bunch of dud candidates, and meanwhile had been watching me commit exactly the code they were looking for.

Ended up contracting with them for a bit building an internal equivalent of the search tool, as well as bushing recommendations integrated with their listings.

The next is my work in the Cycle.js community (niche FRP JS framework). Mostly worked on trendy dev tools, but also did some valuable work on improving the speed, reliability and clarity of async UI tests that is still arguably close to best-in-class for JS.

That resulted in multiple job offers and an approach from Manning for a possible book deal, but none of it was that good of a fit.

Props to the writing in Endless Sky, probably has the most nuanced and interesting plot of any open source community built game I’ve played.

In the board I served on in the past we had an agreed quorum where we could make binding decisions if ~2/3rds of the members were present.

Probably a similar situation.

I started cycling again a few years ago.

I avoided taking the lane while I started, but after being forced into the gutter and nearly side-swiped multiple times, I started regularly taking the lane for my own safety.

That’s what really disappointed me about motorists as a cyclist - you give them an inch and they try to kill you.

One step closer to stillsuits