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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • Rekkar@feddit.detoProgramming@beehaw.org•Was anyone else surprised to see Kbin being written in PHP?
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    1 year ago

    Modern PHP is much better than most people expect. It has very little to do with the PHP4 we all grew up to dislike for its quirks and inconsistencies.

    That said, I wish more software was done in PHP. And for me it makes a lot of sense regarding the Fediverse. A PHP platform I can put on my existing shared hosting and connect some (sub)domain to it and call it a day. Most smaller/meduim businesses probably have that hosting constellation already around, idling around most of the time. The entry barrier is just so much slower than spinning up a VPS or renting cloud space somewhere just to test a small instance of something. Sure it scales not as good as your average cloudplatform but for most usecases that is not the biggest concern.

    Different product but I love Matomo as a Google Analytics because I can just copy the files to a clients shared hosting, connect a subdomain to it and if it uses Sqlite (also better than it’s fame!), I am done already and don’t need to create a database even.

  • Rekkar@feddit.detoGaming@beehaw.org•Has anyone tried Obsidian's "Grounded"?English
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    1 year ago

    Played it in solo mode and also with friends for a while.

    A thing I really liked was the shared savegames, that system replaces the need for dedicated servers completely (savegames are cloud-shared between the players automatically, everybody always has the latest version)

    Gameplaywise I really loved it, basebuilding was so much fun, the crafting system has some really good ideas I wish to see in other games (automatically picking ingredients out of boxes for example)

    I’m not sure why we stopped playing, it felt a bit lengthy at times I think, also coordinating 4 people to find common timeslots so that everybody experiences most of the story was difficult. Also the mobs get a bit repetitive/annoying sometimes - I could do with less spiders in general…

    Writing this though, I almost feel like reinstalling it and diving into the singleplayer again. Got it over MS Gamepass, if that is stil on there, you might want to try to get the trial for 1€ for the first month.