fruit-economy VS budibase

Fruit Economy - itch.io | latest devlog | ghHey Everyone, For the second week in a row things have been rather crazy at work, so I've not been too upset about my disrupted plans... Most of the performance-related code changes I wanted to get done were complete on Wed [0], but there were still some annoying rendering artefacts mostly around resizing the screen and mouse movement. I could hide the mouse movement issue, but I'd rather fix it properly. It's mostly a case of not passing enough context or too much context to the memoisation. Basically, at the moment I'm re-rendering everything if anything changes on the game-state side when I really should be splitting up the re-renders to be more specific to rendering only the subset of tiles that have changed or grouping tiles into small regions and rendering stuff at a region at a time. Also, because of this, I didn't tie re-rendering to non-game-state stuff, things like resizing and mouse movement are waiting on a game tick to actually be updated. Bad on me for being lazy I guess, so that's a thing to get sorted out, but I'd like to also add in a gameplay thing, two weeks is getting dangerously close to going a month without making any gameplay improvements, which is bad. So that's definitely something I need to prioritise for next week.As always, questions welcome!- Folcon `-[0]: You can peak at stuff on github if you're interested ;)...

Apologies for how much junk is in here[0], I finally figured out notarization and then lost the will to touch it. I'm planning on circling back to clean it up in a few weeks when that entire pile of stress is a bit more of a distant memory, but hopefully it's helpful? =)...

- [0]: https://github.com/Folcon/fruit-economy/blob/185d49f120bac18...

Fruit Economy - itch.io | latest devlog | gh

Last June I decided to try and figure out how to make a game or bust, I didn't really care what, just that I made something, so I took part in the GMTK 2021, that went ok so I decided to try and take what I learned about focus, scoping and getting a small playable thing up and running asap and made a new project[2].

It's super rough, the gameplay is still sort of non-existent, performance is pretty bad and code quality is kind of all over the place as I'm still really trying to work out how to build stuff like this and I know if I let my dev side have too much leeway it's going to take over and I'll probably no longer be able to figure out what my creative side wants to do.

It's a fiddly balance that I'm still trying to figure out.

I've intentionally not said anything about the game itself, you're welcome to ask me for details, but there are also bits of info littered about here and there[3].

- [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130124211012/http://www.dev.gd..., original HN discussion [1]

- [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5096009

- [2]: Itch: https://folcon.itch.io/fruit-economy, GH: https://github.com/Folcon/fruit-economy

- [3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22791490

Budibase is great at generating CRUD apps based on a model.

https://budibase.com/

Congratulations to the Airplane team.

Is this Airtable moving in the direction of low-code rather than no code? Puts them up against tools like Budibase [https://github.com/Budibase/budibase] and Retool [Https://retool.com]

I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would lure in enterprise users. "You could not purchase some number of guaranteed-to-work Pipes calls per month" is the quote from the article.

The reason I think that interesting is because that's the model these days for everything from AI tokens to Monday.com seats. It makes me feel like Pipes was before its time.

That said I've been collecting different "business glue" products that are similar to Pipes. To me, like you say, they aren't as interesting, exciting and intuitive as Pipes was, but maybe it just takes a little more digging. I tried to focus on open source tools but some aren't.

- n8n io: https://n8n.io/integrations/mondaycom/

- Node-RED: https://nodered.org/ (just read about this one in this thread)

- trigger dev: trigger.dev

- automatisch.io: https://automatisch.io/docs/

- Activepieces: https://www.activepieces.com/docs/getting-started/introducti...

- Huginn: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

- budibase: https://budibase.com/

- windmill: https://www.windmill.dev/

- tooljet: https://www.tooljet.com/workflows

- Bracket: https://www.usebracket.com/pricing (just SalesForce <-> PostgreSQL)

- Zapier: zapier.com/

Anyway I hope some of these are fun!

Budibase is open-source, including the workflow platform which has helped accelerate thousands of workflows already:

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

(4) Budibase | Build internal tools in minutes, the easy way. https://budibase.com/.

Also missing these app builders, both of which are open source but offer managed hosting:

* Budibase https://budibase.com

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