Battlesnake Reviews

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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 5 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Battlesnake mentions (17)

• Battlesnake Challenge

  Battlesnake is a bit like Robot Wars for programmers: by controlling your snake with code, battles with other snakes can be won or lost. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Practicing Rust, Learning Bevy, Creating a WASM Snake Game for the Browser

  Somewhat tangential, but RustConf last year had a talk[1] about a guy picking up Rust to get better times at Battle Snake[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1BfSpoWM0 [2] https://play.battlesnake.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How can I run untrusted Python code?

  You could use a short response timeout (<1s) to make it impractical for human players to participate - for instance, that's what Battlesnake does (https://play.battlesnake.com/). Players provide an endpoint that follows the required API and their code never leaves their machines. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Learning Crystal with Battlesnake

  Battlesnake is a multiplayer game where a small server you write plays a survival-style snake game paired with snakes implemented by others. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• Which learning platform do you use? If you don’t, how do you study and keep yourself up to date with the ever expanding tech industry?

  Also for fun / to answer the passion part: how far can you get in https://warriorjs.com/ or https://play.battlesnake.com/ :) It's getting more advanced than you'd think. Source: over 2 years ago

DEV.to mentions (545)

• Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed and sidebar for substantial performance benefits

  When you visit the homepage of dev.to, the page itself is cached on the edge so that it's delivered to you as quickly as possible from the closest server. - Source: dev.to / about 21 hours ago

• 5starsstocks.com: Unlocking Tech Signals for High-Performance Portfolios

  The engine behind 5starsstocks.com’s success is its proprietary, multi-factor scoring system, the true decoder of the "tech signal." This system is not static; it’s a dynamic hybrid model that combines four distinct, powerful categories of market indicators:. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago

• What are some good websites on which programmers can write articles?

  Dev. to](http://dev.to) is more like a coffee shop for programmers. It’s a place where most developers love to hang out. A lot of developers post their tutorials, personal experience, and lessons on a project they’re working on or a failed project so others can see and learn from it. Take, for example, you posted a project on your latest debugging tricks, and within an hour, another developer saw your post and... - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Hello World!

  This is my first post in dev.to. Hope I'll learn something from you. Thank You 🙏🏾. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• My AI-Era Technical Article Repository

  Feel free to peek at https://github.com/tom-takeru/articles as you read. The setup routes Japanese pieces to Qiita and English pieces to dev.to so each audience gets the right language. Qiita ships an official CLI, but I skipped it here. dev.to currently lacks an official command-line client. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago