Some early CDs were mastered with pre-emphasis. On players that don't recognise and correct (de-emphasize) this, the sound can sound full of treble. Every hardware CD player should be able to play such discs as intended. iTunes knows about such discs and will rip them correctly, maybe Foobar2000 and CUERipper, but most other software has no clue. I know The Blue Nile "Hats" it's one such disc in my collection. I believe some pressings of The Nightfly were mastered with pre-emphasis. https://www.tnt-audio.com/vintage/procrustes2_pt1_e.html
Surely this is not rewritable storage? So more like an archival CD-ROM or tape than the read-write storage of a hard disk. Maybe they will write changes as incremental backups, and then when the medium is full archive it, or even dispose of it, and start a new one? Regardless, I don't see it as a silver bullet.
I made an approximation of this for Nova editor on macOS. Though its extension system is quite limited, especially sidebar customisation, so it's missing a fair bit. But it was fun to do and it's quite useful as it is. I mention your project in the readme, though it's not a fork but a reimplementation. https://extensions.panic.com/extensions/com.gingerbeardman/c...
Nice! I don't have a mac to check it out, but having copycat extensions within a day of posting this is just telling me i'm on to something really useful here.
Cheers! I thought it was a fun concept and I wanted a project to ease me back into work after being away for a week. I'm also kinda addicted to making extensions and have done a dozen or so.
Nova has a git sidebar which does some of the same thing, but I do think there's something more that is useful to yours. Yours is definitely better because of the heatmap colouring, sadly I can't do that in Nova.
The project is great. The HN comments are embarrassing. Isn’t it ironic to imply laziness by chiming in with “vibe coded” which in itself is such a lazy reaction.
I remember a old grey beard calling me lazy because I programmed in C++ instead of assembler. Using LLMs has pushed this attitude up a few abstraction layers.
not the design per se (however you are right that theres a lot of swiftui usage here that is only available on newer macos’) but mainly because it is using the new @Observable observation macro that is only available on macOS 14+
No, I had considered Microprose, Kitfox, Hooded Horse. I reached out to some but I should have been reaching out a year or two ago. I didn't think I would need one, I still don't think I NEED one... But would have been nice. But I just set a release date as a kick in the butt to get this thing shipped, which pretty much burns the boats of signing a publisher. I think it is better this way though. If it fails it fails. But Michael and I get to keep whatever proceeds are made and we get to do things our way at our pace. But there's other games such as Speculator that also need revamped. I kinda want Hackjack Games to be a remastering game studio, a land of misfit games of sorts. Maybe I'll be more open to having a publisher in the future.
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