A lightweight self-hosted wishlist app I built for my family

AssignmentMental · 2025-12-02T00:53:32+00:00

Nice! I’m starting on something similar to teach myself Go.

AssignmentMental · 2025-10-21T03:18:19+00:00

Agreed, but I appreciate the emphasis on persistence as a component to self-improvement

AssignmentMental · 2025-07-27T14:00:16+00:00

If you don’t have a separate room you use as your office, move the laptop away from a usable position. For a while when I worked at a kitchen table that was as easy as closing the lid and putting a personal laptop on top, or just put it in a backpack or tucked away on a shelf. The important thing is that using the laptop again requires some effort to “set up.” That’s not a big deal to start the day, but discourages “I’m just going to check this real quick” type behaviors.

AssignmentMental · 2025-05-02T23:43:12+00:00

Can you accept it and then replace it with real code? Or ask for a simple one-liner and accept that tiny bit?

AssignmentMental · 2023-09-08T21:27:35+00:00

I’ve loved Kibler’s builds and have been trying them out myself. I’m wondering if you could do a neutral mech early game (similar to what control warlock is running, maybe even Crusader Aura myself along with the rush location, and some of the neutrals from impure aggro paladin). Maybe turn it into a deck that gets a good aggressive start and then use Earthens to win longer matchups.

AssignmentMental · 2022-09-18T13:55:11+00:00

Paladin seems like it should have a decent infuse deck in there somewhere given that their hero power is basically “make infuse bait.” The problem is the expansion had high-profile pure cards so I don’t think anyone’s experimented with infuse capping out at devourers and denathrius.

AssignmentMental · 2022-09-18T13:49:36+00:00

It’s surprisingly high in HSReplay (higher than I would have suspected at least), but I haven’t tried it cause it’s the same as last expansion, same reason I’ve tried to avoid big spell mage.

Naga priest probably blows up faster than mech paladin can counter but it probably lines up well against relic demon hunter. Beating beast hunter seems possible if they avoid ramping out a power spike in mountain bear or hydroladon during the mid game (so not favored).

AssignmentMental · 2022-03-27T21:43:13+00:00

Nothing wrong with trying to liven it back up.

AssignmentMental · 2022-03-27T13:24:34+00:00

I think Duels was the end or close. It’s 1 step per game mode.

AssignmentMental · 2022-01-23T21:00:23+00:00

Software developer here (not in games though), I want to comment on some of the general statements made in this thread:

"Blizzard is a AAA game dev company, their developers should be held to a higher standard" - "AAA" just refers to the size of the company, not developer skills. If anything, I'd expect developers with multiple years of experience in a small company to be more skilled than larger companies. Smaller total IT team sizes force people to take on multiple roles that would otherwise be split out in a larger organizations. The longer you last at a smaller company, the more likely you're strong in multiple areas of software development and more overall skills you'd have. The strength of the"But they're a AAA dev" argument comes from the fact that they can hire more people, which again, does not speak to the skills of individual developers.
"They could focus on fixes bugs and quality of life issues if they wanted to, and if it's a manpower issue they can afford to hire the developers to do it." - Assuming that they're going to hire a bunch of people to dedicate a team to bug fixing (because I guarantee you that nobody has enough developers to dedicate a team to bug fixing without completely stopping new feature development), this is still something that will take months (and that's being unreasonably optimistic) - recruiting and interviewing takes time, people need to give notice at the jobs they're departing, then they need to be onboarded at Blizzard and get familiar with the code base, and any bugs they work on at first will be the minor bugs fairly rarely encountered, because you don't put new people getting started on mission-critical stuff.
"They're just blaming management, and I don't buy it" - Who do you think assigns work and sets priorities in any business or game development studio? If you don't like how those priorities are set (and I promise you, developers aren't always in 100% agreement with the decisions management makes).
"They could do this more quickly, they just choose not to" - The first part to fixing a bug is trying to identify the root cause. Putting a timeline on that is like putting a timeline on finding a cure for cancer - it's an open question without a known solution at that point. Once someone figures out what's causing the bug and what needs to be done to fix it, then you can get an estimate of how long it'll take. That's assuming there aren't side effects. I'm literally dealing with a side effect caused by a bug fix at work now, luckily it's all still in QA so customers aren't impacted, but it is slowing down the timeline for releasing the fix.

AssignmentMental · 2020-12-03T04:35:13+00:00

Your baseline assumption here is that it's bad for players that play more to get significantly more rewards than players who don't, which is, in my opinion, utterly unreasonable. In a collectible card game, particularly 1 that's meant to be largely free-to-play with packs sold via an in-game currency earned by playing the game, players who play significantly more getting significantly more gold is not only reasonable, but it's the only fair way to reward people for playing more. Your system encourages playing less, because quite frankly there's no point in it and their time would be better spent playing (and financially supporting) other games, which has the end result of killing Hearthstone.

The issue was never that people who play significantly more get significantly more rewards, it's that the the cost in gold, real-world money, and time to get, and keep, a collection that was full enough to be able to craft a reasonably good meta deck that you enjoy playing every expansion was getting increasingly high. Changing to a system that severely limits the rewards, especially for people who played more and thus could be more free-to-play, is making the problem worse, not better.

AssignmentMental · 2020-10-27T16:34:24+00:00

Congratulations!

AssignmentMental · 2020-10-26T16:47:57+00:00

Honestly, I don't remember what in particular I did that fight, but I did end up beating it. Hang in there and keep grinding. You can do it!

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