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    Serious Your Favorite Story-Driven Games

    OneShot https://store.steampowered.com/app/420530 This one is like Undertale, but there's no bullet hell, just puzzles and some unique game mechanics. The world building is fantastic, nice pixel art, and interesting characters. Celeste https://store.steampowered.com/app/504230 The story is...
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    Hosting a forum - what forum software?

    Er, unfortunately not quite. I started working with a more experienced dev who took the lead on this. We talked a bit about forum options, including ones mentioned in this thread, got some basic hosting set up, but then they got busy and we put the project on hold. Which is okay, I've also...
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    Hosting a forum - what forum software?

    Thanks for the list of considerations, having a general sense of all the moving parts helps a lot. The Docker and email portions might be a bit challenging, but I'll figure it out. I've never used Docker before, but just from some brief research--wow, it sounds much better than just installing...
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    Post Your Ride

    Holy shit dude, I hope you feel better soon :(
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    Learning Resources

    https://roadmap.sh/ has roadmaps for different roles and skills. Very helpful for figuring out what to learn and where to start. I stole this from Justin Arnold, who mentioned it first in the Devanooga Slack.
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    Hosting a forum - what forum software?

    Thanks for the detailed write-up!. Really appreciate the context with vBulletin and IP.Board, that would probably never have been on my radar. The hosting info is also reassuring, it feels like I'm missing something by just running it on a cheapo DO instance, but hey, I guess the barrier of...
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    Hosting a forum - what forum software?

    I'm thinking about hosting a forum for one of the communities I'm involved in. What made y'all choose XenForo? Or any general thoughts/considerations for choosing forum software? From a cursory glance, I'm leaning towards Discourse, maybe Flarum. Both look modern, and Discourse especially has...
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    Learning Resources

    Full Stack Open is a great course for those new to Javascript-based web dev. I've did a quick dive into data science and found these resources helpful: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python - targeted towards new programmers This 1 hour NumPy crash course - quick overview of important features...
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    Satisfying programming languages to learn?

    I really appreciate all your responses, this is super helpful! Sounds like C# with .NET would be good to dig deep into, with some smaller projects using Ruby, Rust, Go, Clojure, etc., whenever I can find the time. Never really liked C that much, but then again, it's been a few years and I...
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    Satisfying programming languages to learn?

    You know that hit of dopamine you get from seeing elegant, efficient code? Or using a language/framework where all the tools you need are there, and it just works? I would like more of that (PHP isn't cutting it, shockingly! Nor is jQuery). Some that looked interesting: Rust. Sounds like it...
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    Tech Horror Stories: When things go wrong

    I once broke the front page of my company's e-commerce website for all guest users. I'd called request()->user()->id without checking to see if request()->user() actually existed. It was fixed within a few minutes, but yeesh, not fun. Bigger horror story was how many poor dev practices there...
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