Sean Anderson

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icon location San Francisco, CA icon location Staff level SWE, ~15 years exp. JS/TS/Rust. Built a thing called Streamus. Helped an ecom startup to successful exit. Now making digital ants.

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Simply doesn't work with copy task

Hey, My understanding of grunt-newer is pretty limited because I just started using it about an hour before posting here yesterday, but here's what I know: - It keeps a...

Should the post-create terminal close automatically if it exited cleanly

Is there a way to express through configuration that the terminal should close - even if it's not the default behavior? I can see how it would be contentious as...

Running simulation in multiple tabs will conflict state

Honestly as I think about this more, this shouldn't actually be the case if the program is well implemented. As long as the RNG seed is persisted to storage -...

cache ant position to enable ant entity lookup in O(1)

This has been low priority because there's never more than a few hundred ants, but it would be good to push myself to establish correct practices early on

Reflection-less snapshots

This would make me so happy. :)

Backend example

Hah. I was just about to ask for this. :) We'll see how I fair with porting my code and maybe a useful example will come from it.

Game crashes when you leave for too long

Yeah I should really fix this lol. It's a race condition with an ant moving from the outer world to the nest while carrying food and some state stuff reacting...

simulation crashed, unknown cause

Thanks for the bug report! I'll see if I can reproduce it at some point soon.