benrbray
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Comment · 2 months ago
Hey, I want to say that I love Solid as an alternative to react. I've been using it for hobby projects for 5+ years.
I'm at least one example of someone who prefers authentically clumsy. Users like me will be less likely to give Solid a chance if they cannot see that there are real humans with a vision behind it.
Comment · 8 months ago
Presentation matters. Good documentation is evidence of a library that has been carefully thought through. Slop in the readme suggests slop in the code.
Comment · 1 year ago
Really cool! Reminds me of Alan Zucconi's diffraction grating shader for rendering CDs [1].
Comment · 1 year ago
> upset people who decided to pay for it for the first time in their life
It also upset paying customers. It's no longer possible to _own_ Adobe software, and so I don't anymore. Up until just a couple years ago I was still using the copy of Photoshop CS4 I paid for (as part of the Master Collection CS4, Student Edition) in 2008.
A monthly subscription is a complete non-starter for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Eastern Europe it looks like, but this story is remarkably similar to my experience as a graduate student / technical staff at public research institutions in both the United States and Japan.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but your reply suggests an incredible disdain for both technical expertise and for educators. There is value in depth&breadth of knowledge, and it takes great skill to craft a good curriculum.
From a US perspective, students paying $50,000+ per year in tuition deserve better than an overworked PI who has crammed C++ over the weekend.
Comment · 1 year ago
Somewhat related, I used minisat.js to generate Boggle boards that contain a given list of words!
Comment · 1 year ago
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Remote: Yes
Willing to Relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Rust, Haskell, Scala, C#
Résumé/CV: https://benrbray.com/about
Email: benrbray [at] gmail [dot] com
I'm an American software engineer living in Tokyo with 5+ years of professional experience (plus an additional 15+ years of hobbyist experience!). I got my start in high school uploading Flash games to Newgrounds, and learned early on to love the work that I do.
I'm a strong believer in local-first, interoperable, configurable software. I'm seeking to work on a product built to empower users, not lock them in.
I'm particularly interested in working on: rich document editors, programming languages & developer tools, game dev & simulation.
Please visit the about page on my website to learn more about my past work!
Comment · 2 years ago
fwiw Chrome on Linux has no WebGPU support or hardware acceleration, so I often use Firefox for e.g. playing Ruffle content. The story is different on different platforms, and will slowly improve.
Comment · 3 years ago
Most (all?) vscode extensions are hosted on GitHub, is it not possible to reuse them with a custom build?
Comment · 3 years ago
I live in Tokyo which arguably is one of the most transit friendly cities, and still bus to the nearby Costco to load up every month or two. Sometimes you just need a suitcase full of mozzarella sticks, no questions asked.
Comment · 3 years ago
Howdy Elfman, fancy meeting you here all these years after the Game Trailer Collab! Thanks for the nostalgia trip :)
Comment · 3 years ago
I think something like datalog queries would be perfect for refactoring and searching tags. Would also let you declare relationships between tags, like "tagged(x, calculus) -> tagged(x, math)"
Comment · 3 years ago
Driving without insurance is illegal in virtually every state, and the supreme court has ruled that driving is a "virtual necessity" [1] to American life. I am normally very r/fuckcars but this sort of thing affects everyone and as surveillance becomes cheaper and cheaper we may not have a choice.
(if cars are dangerous, which they of course are, the way to fix it is to build walkable cities, not to charge higher rates for the graveyard shift workers who have no say in the matter)
In my free time, I make Noteworthy ( https://noteworthy.ink/ ), a free and open-source Markdown editor with excellent math support!
My personal website is ( https://benrbray.com/ )