jamon51
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CTO at Infinite Red, Inc.
http://infinite.red
https://x.com/jamonholmgren
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Comment · 2 years ago
This made me happy. I also (obviously) have a soft place in my heart for pushing the boundaries of old / limited tech.
Comment · 2 years ago
I updated the README with instructions on how to download the file, review it, and alias it locally. :-)
Comment · 2 years ago
I made around 200 QBasic games when I was a teenager with no internet to help me, and it gave me so many amazing skills that I still use today!
Comment · 2 years ago
Hey, fun to see my fun little project showing up on HN!
Yes, aliasing the CLI command to a remote script is not exactly best practice. My casual question to myself when I made it was … what’s the literal easiest way I could get this to work on someone’s computer with as few dependencies as possible? This was the solution I came up with. (And in my defense, it is similar to how you install homebrew … `/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://xn--rvg)`, but I get that most wouldn’t trust a somewhat random GitHub account like this.)
If you have any questions about this, let me know! My website (https://jamon.dev) runs on it (in a DigitalOcean droplet) and I’ve enjoyed the experience.
Comment · 3 years ago
Don't tempt me.
Comment · 3 years ago
I love this so much. I got my start on QBasic and made hundreds of games between 12 and 19 years old. I eventually left it behind, but always had a fond spot in my heart for it.
Last year, when I was going to rebuild my personal website, someone on Twitter challenged me: “Build it in QBasic, you coward”. I was like “haha…wait, can I?”
And I did! It runs on QB64 on a DigitalOcean droplet.
Here’s the source:
https://github.com/jamonholmgren/jamon.dev
Check app.bas for the QBasic code.
I may eventually release a CLI and library that lets people spin up a QB64 website in little time.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had the same experience as a kid. Probably built over a hundred QBasic-powered games with no internet to help me.
I missed it, so last year when I rebuilt my website I built it in QBasic:
jamon.dev
Comment · 9 years ago
This is one of the big problems App.net always had, in that it wasn't at all intended to be a "Twitter alternative". Alpha was supposed to be an example of what could be built on the platform, not the entire product itself.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's relatively large for a Phoenix web app, given that there aren't that many out there yet.
Comment · 10 years ago
At Infinite Red we chose React.js over our previous choice of Ember not because it was objectively better at web, but because it lowered the context switching when our devs would switch between mobile and web projects. We have many devs who only handle web or only handle mobile, but for the ones who can do both, it's well worth it.
React.js being superior/inferior to Vue.js or others isn't very relevant unless the gap is huge, which it's not.
Comment · 10 years ago
Portland is amazing in the summer, so if you get a chance to come visit us and attend this conference, please do!
Comment · 10 years ago
Sorry to hear that, but thank you for being forthcoming.
Comment · 10 years ago
I should also mention that we've found React Native to be far more productive to use than Appcelerator or Xamarin. Not sure what the author used to determine those charts near the bottom.
Comment · 10 years ago
Complaining about longevity of React Native and then recommending two proprietary, non-open-source competitors is, frankly, absurd. If Facebook ever abandons React Native we have all of the code and can continue to support it ourselves. If Microsoft or Appcelerator ever shut down their platforms for any reason, we're SOL.
While there are some valid concerns with using React Native, the productivity gain and community make it a more than worthwhile trade off.