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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Which Zigbee coordinator did you end up using? Per caddy/https, did you consider using Cloudflare tunnels? I found that quite trivial to set up but then you need your own domain name. For your...

    Which Zigbee coordinator did you end up using?

    Per caddy/https, did you consider using Cloudflare tunnels? I found that quite trivial to set up but then you need your own domain name.

    For your reverse proxy usage, I guess you still needed a bit of router config to expose it to the internet? Have you also tied it to a domain name?

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  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Very cool post. Was wondering why you swapped away from Hugo but I guess it was more of a learning experience and wanting to minimize and be more in control over everything. I believe the html...

    Very cool post. Was wondering why you swapped away from Hugo but I guess it was more of a learning experience and wanting to minimize and be more in control over everything.

    I believe the html within a post is also possible with Hugo but props to you for getting it working in your own framework. (Maybe yours is different in that it is directly the React component...?)

    Any future plans with it?

  3. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (May 2026) — Version 1.6 adds "Find in comments" in ~tildes

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    I see the new search also includes the post content. My first inclination was to check the top right menu but didn't see it there. I see the icon now next to the hide/collapse comment area. Maybe...

    I see the new search also includes the post content. My first inclination was to check the top right menu but didn't see it there. I see the icon now next to the hide/collapse comment area. Maybe worth adding an additional menu item at the top as it technically can search everything shown? I'd possibly argue replacing the comment icon (in the top bar) as if I remember correctly it was somehow against the ethos of Tildes (in that you should read the whole post + existing comments before commenting yourself) and thus the add comment button would be at the bottom.

    Thanks again for continuing to work on this! I use the app every day. (Probably more than I should)

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  4. Comment on The banal horror of Jimmy Fallon in ~tv

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    To be fair on your YouTube argument, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has 34 million subscribers on YouTube. Are your examples posting 4-5 videos a week with 1 million+ views?

    To be fair on your YouTube argument, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has 34 million subscribers on YouTube.

    Are your examples posting 4-5 videos a week with 1 million+ views?

    5 votes

  5. Comment on What was the best job you ever had? in ~life

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    320-400k/yr isn't paying very well...? Maybe I'm crazy but that seems like a high salary for almost any job...?

    Didn’t pay super well for the position but was good enough (depending on company performance and stock fluctuations it would be somewhere between 320k-400k usd/yr).

    320-400k/yr isn't paying very well...? Maybe I'm crazy but that seems like a high salary for almost any job...?

    10 votes

  6. Comment on I made a website with free and low-cost resources for web development, game development, privacy, graphics, small web, etc in ~tech

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    Wanted to look but it doesn't seem to be loading at all for me right now. Is it down? Edit: finally loaded but it was very slow loading from the Netherlands with a gigabit connection. (Like 30...

    Wanted to look but it doesn't seem to be loading at all for me right now. Is it down?

    Edit: finally loaded but it was very slow loading from the Netherlands with a gigabit connection. (Like 30 seconds -> 1min)

    2 votes

  7. Comment on No-stack web development in ~tech

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    I believe you are talking about a legacy "codebase", not framework. Otherwise is Java legacy? Is C or C++ legacy? Is every modern video game legacy as it uses C in some shape or form? To me,...

    I believe you are talking about a legacy "codebase", not framework.

    Otherwise is Java legacy? Is C or C++ legacy? Is every modern video game legacy as it uses C in some shape or form?

    To me, that's a misuse of the word legacy "framework". The framework is actively maintained and still a go-to for many. Once it ends up similar to Cobalt or perhaps a more modern example of say Ruby that has no expanding market share and is not chosen for new projects... Then you could call it a legacy framework.

    6 votes

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Ahh that's too bad, but I'm also a little bit amused it had trouble with the "Madness". Thanks for the update!

    Ahh that's too bad, but I'm also a little bit amused it had trouble with the "Madness". Thanks for the update!

    4 votes

  9. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    This is REALLY helpful. This was actually the crux of the whole issue. I have a fix for it coming that instructs the iphone keyboard to use capitalization when doing the auto-correct. I tested it...

    This is REALLY helpful. This was actually the crux of the whole issue. I have a fix for it coming that instructs the iphone keyboard to use capitalization when doing the auto-correct. I tested it with an old iphone 7 and the auto-correct worked for me every time. I really appreciate you finding this. I have a similar issue in a few of my other games so this really helps a lot!

    I'll try to push the fix for it later this evening along with the data cleanup from the subtitles issue.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    iPhone has been a bit notorious for having some issues with auto-complete. I messed around with it again this morning with mixed results. Doesn't seem to have any issue at all on Android; I'll...

    iPhone has been a bit notorious for having some issues with auto-complete. I messed around with it again this morning with mixed results. Doesn't seem to have any issue at all on Android; I'll keep trying to fix it but no promises as I've already spent some time on it.

    As for having a clear idea of what the dataset is... ideally you wouldn't need to try to emulate any specific "persona". It should just "work" and feel fair. I have a bit of dirty data related to subtitles I still need to clean up... but then hopefully it will feel a bit better just giving your first gut reaction and scoring well (assuming you are a native speaker).

    Glad you are enjoying the game!

    1 vote

  11. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    I tried this one the other day and was terrible at it. It felt less intuitive and "fun". Love the idea, but somehow I didn't enjoy it all that much.

    I tried this one the other day and was terrible at it. It felt less intuitive and "fun". Love the idea, but somehow I didn't enjoy it all that much.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    100%, I think it was some weirdness in the subtitle dataset... Where an acronym was standing as a noun and then punctuation was stripped. From the quote: "Therefore, it is also the five triangles...

    100%, I think it was some weirdness in the subtitle dataset... Where an acronym was standing as a noun and then punctuation was stripped.

    From the quote:
    "Therefore, it is also the five triangles composing the aforementioned N-I-G-H, each are equal to the triangle C-A-B in this geometric concept!""

    3 votes

  13. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Surprisingly not.... That also appears as a separate answer in the database. I'll get it cleaned up soon.

    Surprisingly not.... That also appears as a separate answer in the database. I'll get it cleaned up soon.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Really great suggestions and interesting insights. I used a variety of sources for the data. It was a combination of news articles (I think this was the heaviest weight), movie subtitles, and...

    Really great suggestions and interesting insights. I used a variety of sources for the data. It was a combination of news articles (I think this was the heaviest weight), movie subtitles, and wikipedia (and a few other things) so it should have quite some variety of different versions of English.

    The answers that bubble up to the top can be a bit surprising to me as well. I think for infrequently used words like 'aforementioned' which is quite a formal there is some difficulty. My movie subtitle dataset in particular may have had some duplicates (same movie, different file names). I didn't deduplicate this at the time. So when the word is less frequently used, but used in a movie, it can unexpectedly become the "top answer" due to low frequency usage in other datasets. I'll try to clean up the dataset in the coming week or two and hopefully it will fix these issues.

    For your question about British English, after some thought, I think it's actually interesting if those are separated. I may implement the fallback if a score would be zero... (if color was found, but not colour, you can still get some points). Leaving them separated allows the actual "common" phrase to bubble to the top. The aim is for it to be fair for everyone.

    I think I will also create a "top community" answers area that can show for previous days. It would be interesting to see what the consensus for each adjective is from real people. (Maybe it will become part of the dataset if it wasn't already included?).

    4 votes

  15. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Glad you all enjoyed it. Thanks for trying it out!

    Glad you all enjoyed it. Thanks for trying it out!

    4 votes

  16. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Great idea! Here's my friend code NHT7NV. (you'll need a regular account and to be logged in to click the link)

    Great idea!

    Here's my friend code NHT7NV. (you'll need a regular account and to be logged in to click the link)

    3 votes

  17. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Agreed, that would be the best case scenario. I originally had typo forgiveness in place... so if you typed 'tcao' instead of 'taco' it would fix it for you and allow it. (was using something like...

    Agreed, that would be the best case scenario. I originally had typo forgiveness in place... so if you typed 'tcao' instead of 'taco' it would fix it for you and allow it. (was using something like the Levenshtein distance) I guess in most situations, that might also work for American english to British english (like behavior -> behaviour or color -> colour)

    Note: I'm not trying to imply American vs British spelling is a "typo". Was just thinking of a simple solution.

    I may see if I can put that back in a smarter way... the original implementation had some issues where it could potentially match on a totally different word as it saw it as a "typo". e.g. face -> ace. (1 letter removal typo).

    I think if it ends up with a score of 0 after checking, then maybe I'll allow typo check... with some additional algorithm that would be smarter and not reward a totally different word.

    Thanks for the suggestion!

    4 votes

  18. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Hey, I have not implemented that on the daily site yet. That said, you should be able to use my main site's forgot password here I still need to get that implemented in the daily game styling so...

    Hey, I have not implemented that on the daily site yet. That said, you should be able to use my main site's forgot password here

    I still need to get that implemented in the daily game styling so it isn't so jarring with the style clash. Eventually I will move everything over to this new codebase on the daily site as I like the aesthetic much better.

    When doing the forgot password, It will take you through the flow with my main site's styling... the username/pwd is shared between the two. Logging in on the main site will also keep you logged in on the daily one. Apologies for the confusion! A lot of stuff in transition at the moment, I was hoping someone wouldn't run into this yet.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Interesting, it should have been migrated if you used the same browser. How did you register? Username/password by chance?

    Interesting, it should have been migrated if you used the same browser. How did you register? Username/password by chance?

    2 votes

  20. Comment on I made a word association game - Noun Sense in ~games

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    Yeah, that's more of a display issue. Multiple time and times count the same. I use word stemming for equality but then the "top answers" can look a bit awkward. Previously I did not show the top...

    Yeah, that's more of a display issue. Multiple time and times count the same. I use word stemming for equality but then the "top answers" can look a bit awkward. Previously I did not show the top answers so this wasn't an issue.

    I was also quite confused by the "aforementioned nigh" today.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=%22aforementioned+nigh%22

    Apparently it's from the movie "Better Off Dead"

    https://youtu.be/8PwHypXvsEU?t=38&is=8fmdtPS_HVkr68Q1

    Seems it leaned a bit too heavy into movie subtitles for this one and misunderstood it as a word... Will need to do some searching in the text dataset as to how that ended up as the top answer.

    4 votes