nullfish

ah that's right, thanks for correcting.

still, I think my other remark about his writings stand.

geohotz, the infamous person who cracked the PS3 at the time. Been following him since that time and this project since he started it. His blogs have always teetered on the edge of unprofessional while remaining incredibly knowledgeable and insightful. Truly enjoy all his work.

I suspect the migration to Azure is continuing to go well

Thanks! Frontend stack is React, Three.js, and Cannon.js. We use FBX for the models mostly but started to support GLB files recently which open up a world of new options for customization.

Thank you :)

Laravel, MySQL (Planetscale), Redis. Hosted on fly.io

Total monthly expenses is somewhere near $30/mo which is less than I've paid for personal hosting at times.

Did the company make money?

That's the reality of it. You don't need shiny frameworks or any of those tools to make money.

Are developers happy with it? Maybe! Nothing wrong with spicing up a site with a little jQuery. Heck, I used Alpine.js on a brand new site and it's great. No build step, just works!

Been using fly.io - Started to move professional projects over too

Love seeing Laravel in the wild. We've had a lot of success with it so far. Good luck with the project!

Completely aside, but I used to write PHP 10-ish years ago during the PHP 3/4/5 era. My career launched me into Node.js and JavaScript but I've since come back to PHP and it's been really lovely to write and maintain.

Hey HN

Co-founder of dddice here. Feel free to ask any questions about our infrastructure, codebase, or my latest D&D characters!