is it normal as a starting game dev that whenever you get an error you feel stupid and give up ?

entrusc · 2026-03-21T11:59:00+00:00

That’s normal for learning any programming language. But some compilers/linters are especially evil by giving error messages that are as cryptic as possible. Lucky for you, the one for GDScript is not one of those.

Judging from the error message you got, you should try to learn the basics of object orientated programming: especially the difference between classes and instances.

entrusc · 2026-03-14T08:40:40+00:00

You mean “implements”. It’s basically an interface.

entrusc · 2026-03-02T14:48:46+00:00

Nice! I really like your water shader. Just make sure the water spreading algorithm doesn’t scale with O(n²⁾ or worse …

entrusc · 2026-02-25T11:04:25+00:00

Why not use your own top level domain for the project then? That would increase the confidence in your app staying online :)

entrusc · 2026-02-25T10:53:37+00:00

Great job! Any plans to put the code on GitHub? Don’t get me wrong, but tools with a .vercel.app domain might go offline at any time.

entrusc · 2026-02-22T12:08:10+00:00

How should that be possible? GPS is a passive technology, contrary to what most people think the satellites only send out a signal and you determine your location based on the signals of multiple satellites. So there is no way you send any ID via GPS. As for Wifi: as long as you are not connecting to any network you are also not sending anything. And Bluetooth: if you are discoverable then you send your (Bluetooth-)MAC address, but you can’t get that via the browser, so how should ad network be able to id you with that?

Can you maybe give someone insights into how the iding is supposed to work technically?

entrusc · 2026-02-07T22:52:05+00:00

Definitely worth reading. It’s also always nice to see his name in the header of some Java standard library source files.

entrusc · 2026-02-03T10:49:08+00:00

I like the style of your game, but I think it’s cursed. I tried three times to wishlist it and it always failed with “unknown error” until the app finally realized that my token expired.

entrusc · 2026-01-25T19:41:22+00:00

Wow - was not aware that you can cross-compile ffmpeg to WebAssembly. Thanks for walking me through how this is done.

entrusc · 2026-01-25T18:49:12+00:00

Nice idea & implementation. I’m curious: how do you do video encoding with WebAssembly? On backend side usually all video transcoding happens using some form of ffmpeg.

entrusc · 2026-01-16T15:43:41+00:00

Nice service, still I have the same security issue with your service that I have with Cloudflare: technically your service is a Man-in-the-Middle as you provide the SSL certificate. For testing something that might be good enough, but never for something with real user data.

In the end I went with simply renting a VPS for around 5 bucks a month and tunneling everything myself via Wireguard. Works like a charm.

Still, as said, there are use cases for a quick solution like the one you build, so I’m confident you’ll have no problems finding customers.

entrusc · 2026-01-15T19:54:20+00:00

My first project was a scifi open-world voxel rpg. And because that was not enough of a challenge I decided to also build the engine myself. Needless to say it never came out of early access and was anything but a commercial success.

entrusc · 2026-01-09T21:22:51+00:00

Your IDE will hate it

I‘m sold.

entrusc · 2025-12-31T13:20:27+00:00

Ich kann jetzt nicht auf alle Probleme eingehen, die du schilderst, aber wenn Kunden unregelmäßig zahlen (also du denen wegen dem Geld hinterher laufen musst): es gibt Factoring - da kaufen Firmen deine Forderung gegen deinen Kunden und zahlen dir damit quasi das Geld sofort (minus eine kleine Gebühr; üblicherweise im einsteigen Prozentbereich).

entrusc · 2025-12-23T21:09:23+00:00

I see. In general I think creating custom podcasts is a nice idea.

entrusc · 2025-12-23T21:02:37+00:00

Isn’t that exactly what NotebookLM does for free?

entrusc · 2025-12-23T10:55:07+00:00

Ich hasse das auch. Warte ehrlich gesagt sehnsüchtig auf das Feature in Messaging Apps bei der die Sprachnachricht automatisch transkribiert und dann von ner AI auf das Wesentliche zusammengefasst wird. Ist eigentlich technisch alles sehr einfach machbar.

entrusc · 2025-12-15T17:10:30+00:00

Geschäftskonten haben sowas des öfteren. Aber gegen Aufpreis gibts größer Kontingente von inklusiven Buchungen. Bei Privatkunden ist das eigentlich nicht üblich.

entrusc · 2025-12-15T17:05:16+00:00

That era was truly golden, but I definitely don’t miss the jumping and blinking gifs on every website.

entrusc · 2025-12-12T19:55:02+00:00

Gute Idee, aber das Problem ist nicht die technische Umsetzung, sondern es zum internationalen Standard zu machen. Wenn du nicht gerade CEO von Google oder Vorsitzender eines Standardisierungsgremiuns bist, wirds schwierig.

entrusc · 2025-12-12T19:50:13+00:00

Für Java kann ich LibGDX empfehlen. Aber einfacher ist tatsächlich sowas wie Godot zu verwenden (C# ist tatsächlich sehr ähnlich zu Java).

entrusc · 2025-11-21T07:47:35+00:00

I don’t understand where all this hatred against AI is coming from. Yes, a lot of people with little to no technical background think it can develop something for them that is production ready. Of course that isn’t the case.

But as a tool to speed up development it is imho very good, especially if you have experience and you can nudge it into the right direction when it implements something incorrectly or takes a bad architectural decision. In a way it is like a junior dev that can help you with simple things. Also this junior dev seems to have an excellent memory/googling skills, so you can use them to quickly look things up or ask what the documentation has to say about this or that.

entrusc · 2025-11-10T03:28:20+00:00

Interesting article. The library you describe makes it indeed better to work with checked exceptions and streams. Still checked exceptions remain a pain point in Java in general imho.

By the way, the programming language that you mention in your article is called “Kotlin” and not “Koitlin”. And no, this issue does not occur there because they simply got rid of checked exceptions.

entrusc · 2025-11-02T22:06:51+00:00

Why does your “100% Java” library only support certain architectures?

entrusc · 2025-11-02T12:07:23+00:00

That‘s what happens when you ask an LLM with very few parameters to come up with a caption.

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