I’ve shared this a few times but I’m still having a blast building my game Tiled Words: https://tiledwords.com
It’s a daily word puzzle inspired by board games like Patchwork and My City.
You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword.
Right now I’ve got about 3,000 daily players and have had a few acquisition offers.
It’s been a ton of fun to build! My wife and I build the puzzles together every day. There are over 110 puzzles now so there’s a big backlog if you enjoy it.
I’m working on user accounts, hosting user puzzles, bug fixes and better puzzle building tools!
I don’t think it’s that simple. A couple of examples:
Food:
A lot of the processed foods that are easily available make us unhealthy and sick. Even vegetables are less nutritious than they were 50 years ago. Mass agriculture also has many environmental externalities.
Consumer goods:
It has become difficult to find things like reliable appliances. I bought a chest freezer. It broke after a year. The repairman said it would cost more to fix than to buy a new one. I asked him if there was a more reliable model and he said no: they all break quickly.
Clothing:
Fast fashion is terrible for the environment. Do we need as many clothes as we have? How quickly do they end up in landfills?
Would we be better off as a society repairing shoes instead of buying new ones every year?
It's true, they don't "make 'em like they used to". They make them in new, more efficient ways which have contributed to improving global trends in metrics such as literacy, child mortality, life expectancy, extreme poverty, and food supply.
If you are arguing that standard of living today is lower than in the past, I think that is a very steep uphill battle to argue
If your worries are about ecology and sustainability I agree that is a concern we need to address more effectively than we have in the past. Technology will almost certainly be part of that solution via things like fusion energy. Success is not assured and we cannot just sit back and say "we live in the best of all possible worlds with a glorious manifest destiny", but I don't think that the future is particularly bleak compared to the past
I worry that humanity has a track record of diving head first into new technologies without worrying about externalities like the environment or job displacement.
I wish we were more thoughtful and focused more on minimizing the downsides of new technologies.
Instead it seems we’re headed full steam towards huge amounts of energy use and job displacement. And the main bonus is rich people get richer.
I’m not sure if having software be cheaper is beneficial. Is it good for malware to be easier to produce? I’d personally choose higher quality software over more software.
I’m not convinced cheaper mass produced clothing has been a net positive. Will AI be a positive? Time will tell. In the short term there are some obvious negatives.
> If you are arguing that standard of living today is lower than in the past, I think that is a very steep uphill battle to argue
We'd first have to agree on a definition for "standard of living". There are certainly many (important to me) aspects in which we have regressed and being able to buy cheap tech crap does not make up for it.
Cars make people unhealthy and lead to city designs that hurt social engagement and affordability, but they are so much more efficient that it's hard not to use them.
And then the obvious stuff about screens/phones/social media.
- What you are working on. AI is better at solving already solved problems with lots of examples.
- How fast/skilled you were before. If you were slow before then you got a bigger speed up. If AI can solve problems you can’t you unlock new abilities
- How much quality is prioritized. You can write quality, bug free code with AI but it takes longer and you get less of a boost.
- How much time you spend coding. If a lot of your job is design/architecture/planning/research then speeding up code generation matters less
- How much you like coding. If you like coding then using AI is less fun. If you didn’t like coding then you get to skip a chore
- How much you care about deeply understanding systems
- How much you care about externalities: power usage, data theft, job loss, etc.
- How much boilerplate you were writing before
I’m sure that’s not a complete list but they are a few things I’ve seen as dividers
> How much you like coding. If you like coding then using AI is less fun.
I'm surprised this is never brought up here on "Hacker" News. I've been reading HN for 14 years and all this time I thought people here enjoyed programming. Turns out the majority hates it apparently.
It’s become tradition in my house to play tiled words with my wife just before bed. It’s the last thing we do together before falling asleep each night! Thanks for bringing us together with a bit of joy!
I tried using Claude Code this week because I have a free account from my work.
However when I try to log in via CLI it takes me to a webpage with an “Authorize” button. Clicking the button does nothing. An error is logged to the console but nothing displays in the UI.
Sadly their whole frontend seems to be built without QC and mostly blindly assuming a happy path.
For the claude.ai UI, I've never had a single deep research properly transition (and I've done probably 50 or so) to its finished state. I just know to refresh the page after ~10mins to make the report show up.
Do you have API access (platform.claude.com) rather than Claude code (claude.ai)? I had similar issues trying to get Claude CLI working via the second method, not knowing there’s a difference
Yes, several times. I've been specializing in front-end dev for over a decade.
I shared a simple example because Shadcn has a simple design.
You do often hide the native appearance if you need something complex, but doing that via CSS is still much simpler than a bunch of JS and a third party dependency.
If you have a specific design in mind I can show you how to do it.
Author here. I've implemented all of these with the native radio button and CSS:
> Pixel perfect styling, animations, focus behaviors, interactions with external state, componentized branding to fit in with companies' ecosystems, etc.
Do you have a more specific example of something you've struggled with recently?
It’s a daily word puzzle inspired by board games like Patchwork and My City.
You rotate and rearrange tiles to find clues and rebuild a broken crossword.
Right now I’ve got about 3,000 daily players and have had a few acquisition offers.
It’s been a ton of fun to build! My wife and I build the puzzles together every day. There are over 110 puzzles now so there’s a big backlog if you enjoy it.
I’m working on user accounts, hosting user puzzles, bug fixes and better puzzle building tools!
I’m happy to answer any questions
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