Xylemon on Nostr: Been sorting through over a decade of old photos. Heed my advice and organize your ...
Been sorting through over a decade of old photos. Heed my advice and organize your photos on a regular basis because yeah, 8000+ photos from 2010-2017 I’ve been sorting through…
Anyways, it’s confession time:
Here’s a photo from 10 years ago to the day. I had gotten a T-Shirt for “writing” a couple plugins for Overwolf, a GL/DirectX overlay for games. There was a competition or something like that held by Overwolf themselves to encourage people to write plugins. I think there were cash prizes, but I’m not sure.
Regardless, the plugins that netted me this shirt were ports of Spotify and another service. Must’ve been a decent amount of work right? The truth however is… they were only a few lines of code, if not two. Since the plugin API was all Web/HTML based, I just had it iframe or something stupid like to spotify.com and bam, Spotify in the overlay.
It’s amusing to think I won a T-Shirt over this and it got a lot of good reviews for a while. Sadly Overwolf is proprietary and was .NET based which was more or less a dice roll if you wanted to use it on WINE back in those days. That meant I had to leave it behind when I went to Linux and let my plugins break. Which always kind of confused me how they did anyway considering it was so simple ha! But if you left a one star on my plugins, I’m sorry I couldn’t fix them, I’m not even sure how I could have.
I’m also still sad there has never been something like Trillian or Overwolf that’s open source to this day. The Steam overlay is nice and all but a lightweight and powerful chat overlay for all your services for all your friends on any game was truly wonderful. The shoving everything into a website with hostility towards native (and even third party) clients has really made us lose something special in my honest opinion. Not to mention the amount of energy and RAM wasted from webapps. Jokes on me I guess, I got a T-Shirt for making one.
Anyways, it’s confession time:
Here’s a photo from 10 years ago to the day. I had gotten a T-Shirt for “writing” a couple plugins for Overwolf, a GL/DirectX overlay for games. There was a competition or something like that held by Overwolf themselves to encourage people to write plugins. I think there were cash prizes, but I’m not sure.
Regardless, the plugins that netted me this shirt were ports of Spotify and another service. Must’ve been a decent amount of work right? The truth however is… they were only a few lines of code, if not two. Since the plugin API was all Web/HTML based, I just had it iframe or something stupid like to spotify.com and bam, Spotify in the overlay.
It’s amusing to think I won a T-Shirt over this and it got a lot of good reviews for a while. Sadly Overwolf is proprietary and was .NET based which was more or less a dice roll if you wanted to use it on WINE back in those days. That meant I had to leave it behind when I went to Linux and let my plugins break. Which always kind of confused me how they did anyway considering it was so simple ha! But if you left a one star on my plugins, I’m sorry I couldn’t fix them, I’m not even sure how I could have.
I’m also still sad there has never been something like Trillian or Overwolf that’s open source to this day. The Steam overlay is nice and all but a lightweight and powerful chat overlay for all your services for all your friends on any game was truly wonderful. The shoving everything into a website with hostility towards native (and even third party) clients has really made us lose something special in my honest opinion. Not to mention the amount of energy and RAM wasted from webapps. Jokes on me I guess, I got a T-Shirt for making one.