I have been wondering, since PWA are sandboxed and all, would it be possible to save a "snapshot" of it and be able to run it even if the original website/app went offline?
I think Spyro is one of the best examples of Gouraud shading mastery on the system. The textures are there to add detail, in fact they had a basic LOD system for the environment where they swapped textured models with gouraud shaded models using the same tint for objects far away.
The skyboxes were rendered as well as meshes and then shaded, and they still hold up today from an artistic point of view: https://imgur.com/gallery/vocZw
I thought the billions ways to sort out dependencies and environments Python were its messiest part. I've been using a custom little batch script on windows to streamline that a bit as I mainly use python for small utilities as opposed to big projects - https://gist.github.com/leoncvlt/10e67d9415e61eff0f5010ef6fe... - but interested in giving this a spin!
This is amazing, I can't believe it works as well as it does. Very well done! Reminds me a bit of mobirise.com.
I'm curious to hear about your future plans for monetization? Premium blocks? Concurrent sites creation limit?
I can also see that right now the project is cached in the browser session. Any plans to have import/export of project files in order to better manage several projects at once? Or a desktop version?
Last year I bought a Fire 7 for black friday, then rooted it and replaced the amazon OS with LineageOS and the Play Store. Made for an excellent cheap tablet gift which is still being used today.
- I've got several android apps at https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=leoncvlt. together they bring in about £80 a month. One of them, however, was recently picked as 'editor's choice' by google and this month alone brought in £600, hopefully it keeps some of that steam.
- Built https://cosflowy.com/ in the last year, my biggest project to date which ironically brings in the least, just enough to pay for server costs. Need to do more marketing work, but I find it twice as tiring than actual development itself.
Lots of small things but no golden bullets yet. I'll keep trying!
Surprised to see Plumbers don't wear ties on the list. For those unaware of this masterpiece, I recommend watching this AVGN video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyaF_gCKWsI
Has a few extra features like being able to see different visualisation methods and how basic colour correction influences those - also animates the visualisation while going through the image
Realluy caught me off-guard because I used both the starry sky and the monalisa painting back in the days as well!
Gotta say, I love this and I almost spent 20 minutes on it already.
The only nitpick I have is that when the story is a text post without a url, the story link links to itself. Can we have it linking to the correct HN thread?
I have a few [1] Android Apps that bring home around £90 a month. Ironically, the ads from one app (I don't like ads as a business model that much) make as much as the other 4 combined.
I also wrote a book [2] about game development in Haxe, and self-published it on gumroad. That brings anything from £40 to £150 a month.
Thanks! I was thinking of starting practising with tools like typing.com every day, slowly upping practice time and taking weekly tests to gauge progress.
Then, once able to type regular sentences without banging my head on the desk, switch to touch type for short tasks, then side projects and then non-urgent work stuff.
Might track this and see how long it takes me to get comfortable with it.
Little weekend project from last week - I wanted to make a personal project related to web scraping, so I put together this database of Amazon products recommended by the guests of the Tim Ferris show, one of my favourite podcasts to listen to on my long walks to work.
By no means an original idea, but I reckon a good excuse to get into scraping. Used the amazingly user-friendly Beautiful Soup.
Thanks! It's quite simple actually - what I do is monitoring the current app in the foreground with a background service and when the package name (unique to each app) matches the one in the app database, StepLock fires up.
Dev here - I had this idea while commuting some time ago and decided to code a little app around it: StepLock works like your standard app blocker, except that to unlock apps you have to walk a set amount of steps.
Just add any of your apps to the block list and set the number of steps you need to walk that day. StepLock will monitor your usage and won't let you use the app until you walked that specific amount.
The only thing is that the app use the "new" generation step detection sensors which are designed to be low power and have a minimal impact of battery, and are only present on newer-ish phones. Sorry in advance if the app is not compatible with your device.