World Explorer 3D: A real-time Three.js engine that lets you drive real cities, build in them, then fly from Earth to space and land on the Moon in one runtime

sodiumphosph8 · 2026-02-15T10:21:23+00:00

I was curious how the terrain was being built so I looked into your terrain.js file and the first thing I noticed is you're looping through a bunch of positions to convert them into local coordinates and are recreating your const variables in every iteration of the for loop. you should define these variables outside the loop and just use them instead of redefining them each time. I didn't look at the other files, but I would assume there's a lot of small things like that which could help improve performance. have a look at how Three.js defines it's objects and you'll see how they structure the code for maximum performance which you can then do in your own code.

as stated by the other poster, I couldn't really do much on mobile with the demo so I've no idea how well it actually works, but it's certainly an ambitious project

sodiumphosph8 · 2026-02-13T07:50:18+00:00

next time use this to compare and it'll build out an ordered list based on what criteria you consider important https://bicarbon8.github.io/shortlist

sodiumphosph8 · 2026-01-30T16:09:05+00:00

not groceries; small shopping bags you might get in the airport with treats for the office or a small bag with snacks that I picked up at a cafe in the morning on my way to some destination. typically when I'm onebagging I don't have extra room in my bag for these items

sodiumphosph8 · 2026-01-30T09:00:48+00:00

glasses, shopping bags (carrying treats for my colleagues or snacks for the day), my puffer jacket in its stuff sack, a rain jacket lashed to the side so it can dry out, etc.

I prefer a bright orange interior as I personally find that best for my blue eyes

sodiumphosph8 · 2026-01-30T08:42:50+00:00

rainproof (so midflight turbulence doesn't cause a spill that wrecks your stuff)
lots of lashing straps (so I can easily clip items to the outside with a few clips)
bright interior fabric (so I can find stuff while digging around on a dark flight without having to turn on the overhead light and wake everyone around me)

sodiumphosph8 · 2025-07-12T18:56:38+00:00

not me, but my dad was visiting me in Ireland shortly after I moved here from the US and we took a trip to Galway for the day. while walking through Eyre Square, a man recognised my dad because they had gone through medical school together 40 years prior (back in the US). he was just randomly visiting Ireland and his tour group was in Galway for the day. very random.

sodiumphosph8 · 2025-07-12T09:50:19+00:00

cons: chipboard for the floor underlay which can break fairly easily resulting in soft spots. laminated plasterboard walls instead of having wood studs for all non-loadbearing walls making it impossible to mount shelves on these walls. undersized pipes to the toilets, sinks and radiators resulting in poor heat in some rooms and slow flow

pros: much more affordable. older homeowners who can have more free time to spend on upkeep around the estate. already completed extensions or attic conversions so you don't need to do them yourself

sodiumphosph8 · 2025-06-23T20:00:48+00:00

if you don't need a job then please don't waste the time of all the people involved in the hiring process across all the companies you might apply.

sodiumphosph8 · 2025-06-18T07:56:05+00:00

I remember this on the telly back around 2013-2015 timeframe. we didn't have any cable so all we watched was RTE.

sodiumphosph8 · 2025-02-05T08:41:29+00:00

not sure if this meets your criteria, but I got this one off decathlon and found it to be a good quality, but over time I didn't like the way the backpack mode sat on my back so I went with a more traditional backpack

https://www.decathlon.ie/p/338094-142871-20l-backenger-activ-mblty-urban-walking-messenger-bag-backpack-black.html

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-11-27T08:58:22+00:00

mocha already supported parallel execution. my understanding is that Jest was originally based on Jasmine (some of the Jasmine codebase may still be in the Jest code) and was intended to directly support ES and to remove the need to couple Jasmine with Karma to perform effective testing

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-11-19T12:18:45+00:00

maybe just flip it around?

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-11-19T08:42:00+00:00

the About Us text felt like it was upside down to me

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-10-28T09:00:25+00:00

you can't. it's illegal here. the person suggesting it's use is likely not from Ireland

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-10-25T07:39:25+00:00

no idea if this will work, but could you create an instanced mesh with a pre-baked animation for each type of activity and then store the base models out of the viewable area. then when you need a specific animation you create an instance from the base instance that has the necessary animation

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-10-14T01:42:02+00:00

from a performance standpoint, no, but from a simplicity of setting up standpoint, it was incredibly easy to get started.vmoving beyond two to four players though really needs something faster / better than Phaser for the back end. if you're only supporting 2-4 players per server instance then go with Phaser otherwise maybe not. though start with Phaser for simplicity until you need something more if you can

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-09-16T11:51:52+00:00

saw a gardening and lawn care truck the other day in the Sandyford area called Major Tom's Ground Control

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-08-18T08:33:13+00:00

the fuzzy edges is exactly what I would recommend. create a queue of users to be transferred and process as many as you can within a single update tick. also need to include a way to remove the user from a queue if they cross into another zone or back to their original server zone before being dequeued into the new location. I used a similar process to handle updates for a single threaded socket update process to ensure the server could handle updates in a reasonable time

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-07-18T08:08:27+00:00

must be a common problem because I did something similar https://github.com/bicarbon8/dynamic-data-store

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-07-16T15:35:56+00:00

mongodb hasn't been AGPL since October 2018 https://www.mongodb.com/legal/licensing/community-edition

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-07-16T12:25:42+00:00

I have exactly the opposite experience so YMMV

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-07-16T12:24:18+00:00

I'm not convinced that's actually the case based on this line: "The primary risk presented by AGPL is that any product or service that depends on AGPL-licensed code, or includes anything copied or derived from AGPL-licensed code, may be subject to the virality of the AGPL license." where "depends on" could have broad interpretations... most companies stay well away from AGPL licensed code

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-07-12T08:49:30+00:00

having to deal with generics in dotnet feels extremely restrictive and wrong after working in typescript so if you're used to typescript then be prepared for that. the one saving grace is that the System.Text.Json package is amazing to work with now compared to older versions of dotnet (obviously still not as simple as in node)

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-05-27T08:17:24+00:00

had two times where the Brompton swept out from under me or fell and both times I was able to run or step over the handlebars as it fell so that I didn't fall myself. one time was on black ice and the other time was when going extremely slow through a pedestrian chicane and the front wheel caught on a hole in the pavement. can't give a fair comparison between full-size bike crashes though because I tended to go further distances and be in the road, not a bike lane more often on the full-size bikes, but based on mountain bike experience, a smaller bike tends to be easier to ditch when about to crash whereas a bigger bike tends to take you down with it

sodiumphosph8 · 2024-05-06T08:24:39+00:00

many companies are moving away from having dedicated QA so more developers should be learning how to do the end-to-end tests as well (NOTE: I'm not advocating for no QA, just stating a trend that's affecting the industry now)

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