ozarkerD's comments

On: Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam

[ozarkerD]

Dude I love your game. Been playing it on steam deck, thanks for putting good controller support in!

On: Lawn mowing frequency affects bee abundance and diversity (2018)

[ozarkerD]

I’m curious if this is due more to climate or species of grass in an area.

[worik → ozarkerD]

I need to mow my lawn every two weeks in summer (each week would be good too)

I do not mow in in the winter months, at all.

Seasonal.

On: Cities: Skylines – [free this week] – Epic Games Store

[ozarkerD]

To prevent bots from claiming them and then selling them on shady 3rd party sites

On: Ask HN: How do you stay afloat in the subscription economy?

[ozarkerD]

I’ve found self hosted alternatives to a lot of services I’d need to pay for. I run everything on a raspberry pi k8s cluster that probably costed around $400 to build. It’s paid for itself already.

Now if only I could convince my wife that we don’t need Netflix….

On: Ask HN: How do you stay afloat in the subscription economy?

[ozarkerD]

Does the $11 happen to be Runescape? :) It caused quite a stir when they upped the subscription price.

[xboxnolifes → ozarkerD]

It is, and I figured a lot of people would recognize the $11 :)

[ozarkerD → xboxnolifes]

I’m so sad I let my subscription lapse. I was grandfathered in at the $5 price point for quite a while.

On: A Primer: Accessing Services in Kubernetes

[ozarkerD]

The author mentions ingresses don’t work for non-http TCP traffic. Is that true?

[hardwaresofton → ozarkerD]

Nope, but it really depends on which Ingress you use. But this isn't a k8s/ingress only issue, HAProxy technically is an L7 tool, for example and people will compare it to NGINX a lot but HAProxy only covers a little bit of what NGINX can really do.

99% of the time a k8s ingress controllers on bare metal boil down to:

- A DaemonSet (container that usually runs on every node in your cluster but could be fewer) with access to your node's ports

- One or more controller deployments/pods/statefulsets (maybe the DS, maybe not) watching for Ingress objects or other Custom Resources, reconfiguring the DS on the fly

Things are different in the cloud distributions heavily rely on LoadBalancers, but if you squint it's pretty similar (I'd also argue that LoadBalancers shouldn't have been added from the get go but that's a whole 'nother discussion).

Traefik[0] is the ingress I use and I've written about why I switched to it and continue to choose it[1]. Long story short, I do TCP and UDP traffic with Traefik and it works great.

[0]: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik

[1]: https://vadosware.io/post/ingress-controller-considerations-...

[ozarkerD → hardwaresofton]

Thank you for the excellent answer!

On: Ask HN: Where do you hang out virtually online?

[ozarkerD]

+1 for thelounge, ui is great and it seems very stable. Been running an instance for about a year and a half with no downtime except updates

On: The Story of Maxis Software (1999)

[ozarkerD]

I was going to say I miss the age in video games where there were well known players like Sid Meier or Will Wright, but then I noticed the article was written by Geoff Keighley who I still know of today for running the game awards. Kinda funny.

[pvg → ozarkerD]

There are lots of famous names around, probably more so than before. Kojima and Myamoto come to mind, Tim Schafer is 20 years into a 'comeback', Minecraft - one of the most popular games of the last decade - has a well-known designer who'd still be part of the conversation if he hadn't taken it upon himself to torch his public reputation. And that's just scratching the surface.

[nwiswell → pvg]

Not to mention Chris Roberts appears to have invented a whole new business model: selling game development hype instead of games

On: Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2022?

[ozarkerD]

Really excited to see where wgpu and Rust graphical software goes in general the next few years

[adamnemecek → ozarkerD]

Dope GUIs toolkits that's where.

On: December 11, 2021 Tornadoes

[ozarkerD]

The town I grew up in got hit by a pretty bad one in 2002. I was in elementary school at the time and saw how it affected the kids who lost their homes or their folks’ place of business.

During tornado warnings we’d be taken in the basements beneath the schools for shelter. I remember kids who had trauma from the experience having mental breaks and screaming and crying down there while the sirens blared. Poor kids :( Most of the kids handled it better through middle school but I remember a few still having problems with it in high school