julianwachholz

Joined 15 years ago

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126
Member since
Sep 28
Contact info and PGP key: https://julianwachholz.dev
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Comment · 2 years ago
The sniper bots in TF2 will instantly kill any non-bot player unless the person buys a "bot protection" from the cheaters. Playing on bot-infested servers is basically impossible unless you pay up (which you obviously shouldn't do).
Comment · 2 years ago
It sure sounds interesting, but I'm only getting timeouts. A possible hug-of-death period should be over by now?
Comment · 2 years ago
Two years ago, on the height of Wordle's popularity I wanted to play a custom word against my colleague and ended up sending the emojis manually in the chat to each of their guesses.

That was a Friday and the same evening I had the idea to make it into one of the many derivatives and finished the same night around 3am.

Things went a bit popular from there and it wasn't long before I was contacted by companies that wanted their own branded version. That meant I had a potential product on my hand and started selling subscriptions to managed branded puzzle sites.

Fast-forward a year and I sold the weekend project for a nice sum. :)

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I would never expect a browser extension to work flawlessly with every possible site out there.

You are the user of the extension. Does it break a site? Submit a patch to the extension! Certainly don't complain to the website author who has no control over what extensions you personally use.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I once heard that there are a couple types of projects that every software dev must go through at least once as a rite of passage. For me and those around me those definitely were IRC bots and bulletin board systems. Everyone created their own.
Comment · 3 years ago
We can already see this to some degree. On my Android device, Chrome will only let me create a synchronized passkey in a Google account UNLESS attachment is explicitly set to "cross-plattform" - even though not specifying the option is supposed to allow all types.

You can try this out on webauthn.io and changing the attachment setting.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's not a casino or falls under gambling laws I assume because there is absolutely nothing to be won.
Comment · 3 years ago
So it's exposing those games for what they really are: not-fun time wasters.
Comment · 3 years ago
Job Location: Leaf Space Headquarters in Lomazzo (Italy).
Comment · 3 years ago
Try adding some query parameters. I've been tweaking the hints based on peoples' feedbacks and I hope later steps aren't so vague.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://julianwachholz.dev

I've only recently decided to go with bearblog and finally start blogging instead of worrying about the correct setup forever.

This is a great thread to feed my news reader subscriptions!

Comment · 3 years ago
I assure you it's not :)

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