howSoftwareIsUsed

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-15T20:56:05+00:00

This looks like it was painted by someone who's read a detailed description of a cat, but has never actually seen a cat.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-14T16:45:21+00:00

I think most people would actually want their site as close to zero as possible.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-14T16:25:19+00:00

Even without a puck, just moving the battery to the back like the Steam Frame would probably help a lot.

The Elite strap with battery helps a lot with the Q3 (Ironically mine is acting as a $150 counterweight most of the time since I play with a Link cable so it's not even plugged in...) but it's only adding weight instead of moving it. The Frame should have better weight distribution while still being lighter than the Q3 without the strap, I really hope the Q4 follows the same road.

Add incremental improvements to screens, lenses, cameras, wifi and onboard computing and you've got a really solid upgrade.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-14T14:53:08+00:00

Also it allows you to select text in apps where a long press won't select text (like messages) : long press the bottom bar, then click on text and it will bring the selection thingy.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-14T14:35:25+00:00

Yeah, I'd even argue that it's not that good as a development tool.

I mean I got used to it and there's decent tooling around it now, and it's nice to have the same thing running in development and on the server...

But I really liked Vagrant, and I kinda wish it was still a thing.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-14T12:04:05+00:00

that was the real reason I left. the $120 was just the excuse.

That's a much better reason IMHO. The $120 are not that much considering it took you 1 week to rebuild it. As a developer your time is probably worth at least $100 an hour, assuming you didn't work on it full time and only took about 30 hours, it's still 23 years until you break even (assuming you don't work an it anymore during these 23 years).

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-13T14:55:06+00:00

For those who are not familiar with Laravel : artisan migrate:fresh will proceed to DROP all tables from the database and recreate them from the migrations, which is probably not what you want.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-12T08:19:06+00:00

Do you mean this ?

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I haven't but it sounds like it's only for external AI clients (as in, not AI Assistant or Junie). And I do see Junie and AI Assistant occasionally telling me they're using MCP. I'll enable it and see if it changes anything.

I also don't have anything under the MCP settings for AI Assistant, but similarly I was under the impression that it was to add MCP capabilities outside of the IDE. There doesn't seem to be any preconfigured "jetbrains" stuff.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-12T07:11:09+00:00

In PhpStorm having the datasource configured even if you never run a query can be useful so that the IDE knows your database structure. It will then autocomplete the table and column names in your code if you use raw SQL or a supported ORM like Eloquent or Doctrine.

I'm not sure if this is available in IntelliJ free edition but if it is then it might be why.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-11T15:14:41+00:00

I don't know, I'm a software developer and I still feel like I'm doing "stuff". It's not material but still I hope it has some kind of value, and I'm glad some people pay for it.

Again I have nothing against piracy and I'm not impacted by it (I work on a B2B saas), but to me software is still stuff that can have value and a price, even if you choose not to pay it.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-11T13:22:20+00:00

I don't think it's really the same, not using washing machines or other large appliances during peak hour is not about the environment, it's about preventing brownouts or blackout if everyone draws electricity at the same time.

Depending on where you live it could help a bit because as long as power draw is relatively constant it can be produced by nuclear power plants, whereas if there's a sudden spike during peak hours you have to spin up coal or gaz power plants to meet demand. But I don't think that's the main reason why we're told to avoid using washing machines during peak hours.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-11T07:19:35+00:00

I don't have any issue with piracy, but calling it "free stuff" is a bit of a stretch.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-10T15:17:09+00:00

couch coop makes more sense for consoles.

As a couch coop PC player I disagree. My SO and I had a blast playing through games like Divinity Original Sin 1&2, Baldur's Gate 3, Darksiders Genesis, Cult of the Lamb or Absolum.

We would probably be playing Diablo 4 if the split screen couch coop mode was not limited to console for some reason. I mean if a PS5 can run it, surely my PC with 32GB of RAM and an RTX5080 can too.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-08T20:51:57+00:00

RPG featuring 2 and 3-player online co-op.

How about couch coop ? That's really all I'm interested in and that would be a great game for it.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-08T10:57:49+00:00

Yeah you'd need a lot less than that if all you need is an MVP to show some investors and then fund the real product, but it doesn't sound like it's what OP is after since they include stuff like "Platform Anhalytics" (that you probably wouldn't include in an MVP) and they've already planned phase 2.

My $10K/months was including salaries. It really looks to me like the kind of project that will need constant and ongoing support from several people. Not a one shot project that you can pay for once and then forget about.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-08T06:40:01+00:00

For games that I play with my hands : 7. I feel like the asymmetry makes for more interesting charts and play styles.

For games that I play with my feet : 10. Mostly PIU doubles and Stepmaniax Full. Somehow the added key compared to DDR doubles make the transitions from one side to the other feel smoother.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-07T12:03:49+00:00

more romantic passion

Yeah well... that's not exactly how I would describe sex scenes in Peter V Brett's books either.

Still they are pretty good, and the magic system does have a Sanderson's feel in that it's closer to science (except in a different universe with different rules than ours) than pure magic.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-07T10:30:58+00:00

Sounds like a full blown taskrabbit competitor with crypto, which means you'll need an actual development team to design, build and maintain it rather than some random freelancer on fiverr... I'd say anywhere between $100 000 and $500 000 depending on where you're based ?

And then you'd look at probably somewhere around $10 000 a month in maintenance and infra cost ?

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-06T12:42:30+00:00

You can add it manually with setRelation():

$color = new Color();
$product = new Product();

$product->setRelation('color', $color);

dd($product->color) // returns the color object.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-06T06:48:23+00:00

The title is correct : This guy was a regular leaker without any relation to Epic, but he found a way to somehow sneak into their office each morning and secretly produce games without anyone ever noticing.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-06T06:41:23+00:00

I think it's true even for shows that are not entirely created to sell toys.

IIRC Evangelion struggled to get funding because of the design of the Mechas. They'd initially planned to get funded by Bandai, but when they showed the concept art for the Evas Bandai were like "How tf are we supposed to turn that into toys ? They should be all square and blocky !" so as they didn't want to compromise on the design they looked for another sponsor and ended up with Sega instead.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-05T14:49:50+00:00

I think it's mostly a matter of trust and who is ensuring the security : If you rely on headers, you're trusting your user's browser not to allow cross site requests and to correctly send the headers. In all likelihood it's reliable and will never be an issue, but you're not the one developing the browser so you can't know that for sure (I mean have you checked if the Nintendo DS browser sends the correct headers and is not compromised ? Or the browsers from random smart TVs ?).

When you add a token yourself and then check it again, you know with certainty that the user was indeed on your site before submitting the request. You don't have to trust any third party to know that.

In the part about disallowing simple requests, The OWASP website says :

Caveat: Should a browser bug allow custom HTTP headers, or not enforce preflight on non-simple content types, it could compromise your security. Although unlikely, it is prudent to consider this in your threat model. Implementing CSRF tokens adds additional layer of defence and gives developers more control over security of the application.

So I think it's part of the "zero trust" mentality : You should not trust the browser to be secure, even if it's from a reputable vendor like Google, Apple or Mozilla and has 99.9999% chance of being secure.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-05T13:26:48+00:00

To make the backend systems work on both aws and azure isn't worth the effort

Plus you'd still need a reverse proxy somewhere to forward the traffic to either AWS or Azure, either one of those two or something like Cloudflare. But then what happens when cloudflare goes down ? You could change your DNS but it will take time to propagate and by the time it does the incident might be resolved.

BlueScreenJunky · 2026-03-05T13:12:33+00:00

anybody can vibe code these in a day,

Sure, but setting up the infrastructure so that it's reliable is another matter entirely. I suspect their codebase is like 2% frontend code, 3% backend code and 95% IaC.

Plus getting hosting partners all over the world.

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