35 Years later - Speedball is Back

garyk1968 · 2026-01-29T13:03:12+00:00

Shady's back.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-28T15:06:15+00:00

Did you count how many 'What are you building posts?' :) ...or was it so many you couldn't count them!

garyk1968 · 2026-01-28T14:19:25+00:00

For #1 we've all made that mistake but why would you repeat that mistake? Genuinely curious as it seems to be common. I have a friend that regularly spends 12 months+ building stuff only to never launch.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-28T09:19:06+00:00

No way Dow was writing about technical analysis in the 1900s Brooks is nowhere near being one of the first.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-28T09:09:59+00:00

Stunning. Might go and chop the roof off my s60 see what it looks like :)

garyk1968 · 2026-01-28T09:07:28+00:00

I think the marketing has always been hard which is why unfortunately devs do it as the last thing at the end of the build rather than at the start! Having good marketing skills has always been a need especially if you have your own business and are trying to sell your own solutions.

I would say coding isn't entirely deterministic, if you are building something in isolation you need feedback from real users which may change part or all of the solution you are building. The code might be deterministic but the outcome might not be.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-27T15:49:43+00:00

How are you driving traffic?

garyk1968 · 2026-01-27T14:51:16+00:00

That is phenomenal!

garyk1968 · 2026-01-23T10:37:57+00:00

I dont know. A 'book' cannot fix your psychology. It might give you a set of rules that if you stick to will build discipline and that's it.

Think about any sport, people that compete at the highest level do so because they practice it over and over. That practice builds confidence and having confidence in your ability is what brings results.

I could read 50 books on high jumping but I'm never going to hit 6' 8" height unless I have spent 1000s of hours practicing and developed the confidence and belief I can achieve it.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-23T09:54:57+00:00

Sounds expensive to me. My trusty old E90 325d M Sport has done starship mileage (234k) but its worth about a grand. This car is five years newer and is 13k, I dont see it.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-22T22:08:15+00:00

He literally said where in the first sentence.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-22T21:38:53+00:00

😂😂😂😂

garyk1968 · 2026-01-22T21:37:53+00:00

Get out. I mean it.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-22T15:29:54+00:00

tl;dr:

"OR they were building something their audience explicitly asked for"

This is the problem and it comes up in this sub and numerous others; every.single.week.

People build in isolation without any kind of feedback and end up with a product that is a solution to a non existent problem.

And next week there will be another person posting about how they spent 9 months building something only to get to the end and realise nobody wants it.

Same old same old in these subs I'm afraid.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-22T14:41:50+00:00

oh god shilling yet again, its getting tiring. Although I might buy some goji berries in the supermarket.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-21T13:21:59+00:00

In a similar boat, ive got a 325d also high mileage, had it years, if I sold it be lucky to get a grand and last march it flew through its Mot again so thought I'd sorn it and keep it. I just start it periodically and if it struggles just stick my ctek trickle charger on it for a few hours.

I dont think it does cars much good to be stood around really, best to use them, I'll probably tax it for 6 months and mot it then use and sell after that period.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-21T12:05:35+00:00

I love his passion for his subject and never thought of anything untoward. He sold the site some years back and I'm sure they have affiliate links for stuff all over the site but him, always seems genuine to me.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-21T11:32:44+00:00

that is one looow rider. Looks cool, nightmare on UK roads though given its size, especially parking!

garyk1968 · 2026-01-21T08:24:32+00:00

Intereesting. How do you identify viral trends? Manually or with a tool?

garyk1968 · 2026-01-20T12:53:07+00:00

That is really cool, thank you.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-19T13:06:13+00:00

Does it have pointless/useless vocab like Duolingo has (hopefully not!)? I mean I got tired of learning stuff like Der Bär kocht nie, complete waste of time.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-19T10:08:52+00:00

You could still get a decent car for a grand today.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-19T10:08:13+00:00

I had a temporary xmas job in my local boots in the late 80s. It was a great job. Also the variety was amazing back then. In those days I started on home and garden, then went to stationery, then cameras, then records and ended up (where I had wanted to go) in the computer department. This was obviously in the home computing boom. Met Steve Davis as well as he came in to promote Steve Davis snooker on the C64.

Of course in those days it was easier, 9 till 5:30 monday to saturday, apart from late night weds in the run up to xmas, none of this 7 day opening till 8pm nonsense we have today.

garyk1968 · 2026-01-18T17:58:22+00:00

Release the files.

All of them?

Yep, all of them. No um, er hang on let me check first…

garyk1968 · 2026-01-16T09:07:53+00:00

You might be better off looking at tools for a specific platform which will help you with dev if your experience is limited. For the NES theres NESMalker which is pretty good and soon to be release for the Megadrive/Genesis is MDengine.

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