Handmade Community!

Roughly a year ago, we sprang to life as a result of being inspired by Handmade Hero. Even though The Handmade Dev Show has been in hiatus, it should be back on the air nearing the end of this month, especially since we need to celebrate Handmade Dev's 1-year anniversary! Stay tuned for more updates on Twitter.

On with the news.

Improvements to Site

Completed

o You no longer lose a post if no title is set o Thread titles are updated when editing original post o Fixed wrong link in breadcrumb when editing or replying o Quote button would sometimes not work o Quoted text now links to original post o Enabled some nested quotes functionality o Better redirects from old Handmade Hero forums

As we all know, NASA retired the shuttle, and so Kennedy has been transforming into a commercial spaceport, partnering with private space companies to lease the land, "rent" launch pads, and provide launch operations support. The workforce model has been updated too, allowing us civil servants to shift around different jobs (that we prove we're qualified for) rather than being tied to a specific role. These recent endeavors have changed the face of NASA here on Florida. The organization and its day-to-day operations is not the only thing transforming—buildings and launch pads are getting their share of facelifts, and that includes our main headquarters building. Let’s have a look at the one we have right now:

Fig. 1 - Current Kennedy HQ

As you can see, old bricks are not the future, and the architects knew this. After apparently watching some good scifi movies, a new concept for the central building emerged.

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I've gotten pokes from viewers asking about the Handmade Dev Show. It's awesome to have awesome viewers, thank you for that. There's an uncomfortable but necessary transition happening in my life, and in the spirit of ongoing transparency (which was further fostered by approaching strangers with #PokemonGo), my story follows:

This summer of 2016 is an important rotation at work because I have to fulfill many obligations by the end of it. I've been away from school for a couple years, pursuing internships until getting into the NASA co-op program. Now I need to return (Monday, August 22nd) for a year and finish my degree so that full-time conversion can occur. Before returning, there are panels, showcases, and infamous government forms to fill out, as well as performance reviews. That's the reason I haven't been streaming... I'm exhausted by the weekends. In addition, the one and only [url=https://handmade.network/m/ChronalDragon]Andre

Public Beta

Yes folks, it continues. I always joke that the only time you can be sure a deadline is met by Handmade Dev is if there's a countdown timer behind it (because that is how we launched the beta site by a set date). It will continue to be that way, because we don't want to mess this up.

Incidentally, at the staff meeting our lead developer has said it's a pretty safe bet the bugs will be dwindling to the point of officially moving to a stable version by the end of this month. Take that with a grain of salt, but his level of certainty was inspiring.

New Projects to be Added Tomorrow

Yes folks. Approved projects will be coming in by the end of July 7th, 2016! We generally expect all the new projects to provide monthly updates, and I will disclose what that means in details with the project owners. I ask the community to please support these new handmade projects with feedback and support, as w

Extended Public Beta

The fixing of the bugs has led Jeroen to redesign some key aspects of the data model and further improve efficiency. We've extended our beta until the end of June.

New Projects

We've had over 10 new project requests so we can host them here on Handmade Network, many of them already ahead in development. We're currently reviewing each one and plan to add them by the end of the month.

New Staff Member

Martin Cohen has joined the team! He will be exploring new design options as we work hard to release a stable, fully-featured version of the site. He's made some tweets regarding his current concepts such as this and that (note: totally subject to change).

Return of the Handmade Dev Show

It's true folks! The [url=http://vimeo.com/abnercoimbr

Since these are the early days of Handmade Network, I want to explain where we want to be headed.

Public Beta

It's been one month since the Handmade Dev Team made this site public in order to get feedback. The praise has been great, but so has the amount of bug reports and feature requests. After careful review, we don't anticipate moving from beta to stable release until mid-June. If you're new, the bug list is here, and to submit feedback, go here. We also have major plans to do significant design improvements with the help of developers who just so happen to be professional designers (more on who they are on future updates). For expert people to volunteer their time suggests Handmade Network has some appeal. Which leads me to our next item.

What Handmade Network (HMN) is About

HMN wants to be

Access

Server: irc.handmade.network Port: 7777 (SSL) or 7666 (Plain Text)

The server now supports cloaking, and will do so automatically when you connect so your IP address will not be visible to non-admins.

Where programs expect an IRC url, use:

ircs://irc.handmade.network:7777/

Using a Web Client

You can access HMN via the Kiwi IRC web client via this url: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/#ircs://irc.handmade.network:7777/#random

There is also another web client hosted by [member=insofaras]insofaras[/member] available at https://hmnirc.party with history playback.

Common Channels

#dev — programming talk / questions #hmn — questions / concerns relating to the website or other hmn services #hero — concerning Handmade Hero #streams — automated twitch stre

Greetings! We're proud to present the v1.0 release of Handmade Network to the public!

Handmade Network is the home for dozens of projects that were inspired directly or indirectly by Handmade Hero. Some eschew libraries, while others are themselves libraries written in a simple an conscientious style. Some are released products, others are in early alpha, and some are just beginning to materialize.

For each, we provide the option to have their own self-contained forums and blog, so they can share news about development and interact with the people using their software directly. Membership is site wide, so anyone who has an account here can post on any project. Additionally, we've inherited the Handmade Hero forums and all the accounts on it, so anyone who had an account on the old forums can log in anywhere on handmade.network with their old account credentials. (Note: a registration page for new members will be going up in the next day