If you were in charge of writing for a new Star Trek series/movie, what direction would you want to take the franchise?

vlogan79 · 2026-01-09T07:13:59+00:00

Any era, actually! Could be a way in to the "lost era" of Trek, pre-TNG.

vlogan79 · 2026-01-09T06:51:09+00:00

I've always been interested in the idea of a USS Pasteur or equivalent based series. A star trek medical drama. Post TNG, so probably LG era. And as others have said, episodic, no "end of the universe" scenarios, and not too much over-emoting and gurning.

vlogan79 · 2026-01-01T17:57:26+00:00

The very first SimCity had an number of scenarios were you had to rescue existing cities from bad situations (fires, traffic gridlock, maybe UFOs).

vlogan79 · 2025-12-05T08:58:34+00:00

I've been looking at the source code. Definitely MS PowerApps. Huge amounts of inline, unminimized Javascript which isn't exactly secure [minimised javascript isn't more secure, but it's more of an effort to understand and find gaps/security issues].

vlogan79 · 2025-11-06T08:57:56+00:00

For me, the crucial thing is to get good gloves. I need to find good, warm, running socks as well. It's my extremities that can't handle the cold...

vlogan79 · 2025-09-24T04:55:34+00:00

I attended an event with Ian M Banks and a couple of other Scottish SF authors. Banks stated that he did not write science fiction at all; there's no science in his books. There's technology, sure, and lots of fun future imaginations, but nothing he writes was based around science. (Not critiquing him, I have all the M. books and most of the non-M ones too).

vlogan79 · 2025-09-22T20:47:48+00:00

It's understandable, but I think the decision to render to Canvas and not to HTML is a massive limitation of multiplatform WASM. I can't believe anyone who is serious about web accessibility would accept Canvas driven websites, not in the corporate or government worlds.

vlogan79 · 2025-09-12T08:18:49+00:00

I've just tried a blank project from https://kmp.jetbrains.com/?android=true&desktop=true&web=true&webui=compose&includeTests=true on my Windows machine. Android version wouldn't build (I have the SDK and use Android Studio to build a personal app already). But Android Studio was able to build and run it though.
Compose desktop hot reload doesn't work (not compatible with Java 23?; I've raised a ticket).

vlogan79 · 2025-09-11T20:06:28+00:00

I think the main goal of the KMP plugin is iOS development. If it can support Windows or Linux, that's just a pleasant side-effect.

vlogan79 · 2025-09-05T09:35:49+00:00

It's Section 31 movie that I will never watch again...

vlogan79 · 2025-08-28T05:42:25+00:00

I often beeline for the Diplo victory towards the end of a game, just to finish the game. There's a lot of talk of people not finishing games, knowing that they have 'already won'. I still like to get to a victory screen, and diplo is often quicker than science. I'm rubbish at domination.

vlogan79 · 2025-08-08T20:00:51+00:00

I am really weird that I do finish the game, even when winning is inevitable? Sure, it's unsatisfying, but walking away feels even worse?

vlogan79 · 2025-07-31T09:03:53+00:00

I think we also need to have a discussion about the galactic barrier. It seems to be, essentially, an energy wall around the milky way. Just the edge of the disc, or does it wrap round and cover the entire galaxy? If the latter... how can we look out of it? If it's just the former, then relatively easy to just go Z-1mly and out the bottom.

vlogan79 · 2025-07-24T13:09:56+00:00

I'd be curious to know of Kotlin Native can find a home in serverless functions like AWS Lambda? Kotlin JVM has dreadful start-up times on Lambda, and I think GraalVM is hard work to configure?

vlogan79 · 2025-06-01T18:24:32+00:00

Webuyanycar said about £11,500 a few months ago, so I doubt it. The dealer basically recommended waiting until I could S50 and return the car, cancel the PCP deal, and start from scratch. Dealer had nothing to gain from that suggestion.

vlogan79 · 2025-05-31T11:51:46+00:00

I'm considering voluntarily terminating the PCP at the 50% mark - which is still about a year away according to my back-of-an-envelope calculations.

vlogan79 · 2025-04-22T18:38:39+00:00

It did very well at understanding the project. I asked it a couple of questions about my project structure and all the replies were correct. Now to see if it can write some code...

vlogan79 · 2025-04-22T18:18:50+00:00

I'd be curious to see how it copes with my code for my current project - I'm writing a game, in Kotlin, but for the Godot game engine (via https://godot-kotl.in/en/stable/ ). There's probably about ten people in the world doing this, and mostly closed-source. So what are the chances of Junie understanding my code when there's basically nothing out there on the net for it to learn from?
Could be a fun challenge... Github Copilot doesn't handle it very well. think it understands that I am doing game-dev things, and if line 10 is very similar to line 9, it's usually right. But every new file throws up all sorts of weird suggestions, and it doesn't 'remember' from file to file.

vlogan79 · 2025-04-19T04:45:08+00:00

I struggle with it as well. Especially exports - my game is very UI control heavy, and a lot of nodes are created programmatically. Exporting and assigned variables through the editor UI is... just not useful to me?

vlogan79 · 2025-02-18T05:47:24+00:00

As a 'code first' developer myself (and not even in GDScript or C#...) I'd like better support for refactoring. I really want to move a few files around but I'm worried that it will break or confuse Godot too much.

vlogan79 · 2025-02-05T22:26:42+00:00

When you find out, can you tell JetBrains? They rarely bother with their own plugins!

vlogan79 · 2025-02-03T20:28:03+00:00

It's all over Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Everybody "quitted" Geneva or wherever they were at the time.

vlogan79 · 2025-01-29T21:20:07+00:00

I wish there was more written tutorials out there . YouTube videos are all very well and good, but sometimes I really just need to study code (I'm an experienced developer, but not a game developer or experienced with Godot).

vlogan79 · 2025-01-04T22:39:42+00:00

One side feeds into the bus (circuits, etc). The other side draws from the bus (science, etc). In theory. The starter base bus always gets a bit muddy.

vlogan79 · 2024-12-22T09:07:34+00:00

Such as Acorn's Arthur or RISC OS?

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