on that theme it reminds my of the Pico-8 community (although technically it is an engine but you dont need to do engine programming even for generating music!!)

compiled a personal webpage to play with mobile controls and a javascript engine to play the pico-8 games and i love the celeste port on that!

https://rohitjha.com/labs/flynns-arcade

“Also I have no idea why the average score was increased in 2022. A lot of new users?”

Possibly. Post covid many companies laid off people and that could have led to more time and interaction with HN and many more new builders and solopreneurs joining the community

sharing a few books I recommended in my annual list (recommend reading!) https://rohitjha.com/blog/reading-highlights-2025/

Non Fiction:

- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang (2025)

- How to Live an Extraordinary Life by Anthony Pompliano (2024)

Fiction:

- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (1956)

- Consider Phlebas (Culture Series #1) by Iain M. Banks (1987)

- The Way of Kings (2010, Stormlight #1) & Words of Radiance (2014, Stormlight #2) by Brandon Sanderson

love it. been using for personal projects.

some things that still need to be done before v1 launch:

- easy data migration in and out (right now is a pain if its large volume of data from other DB eg firebase or sqlite!)

- API/programmatic setup of tables (right now its only via UI making it hard to setup large complex tables with variable permissions)

- Multi-instance: easiest is to have another pocketbase in "mirror" mode that it updates once a day or whatever with primary (primary > secondary method like in mongo is a great mechanism, with some kind of voting for primary)

There was somebody who was using one of the various sqlite replication tools to do multi-instance pocketbase. I can't remember if it was LiteFS or dqlite or something else, but I remember it scaling pretty well. The majority of applications aren't going to outgrow single-instance sqlite though.

Also, you can do programmatic setup of tables with migrations: https://pocketbase.io/docs/go-migrations/ (also available in JS). I can't remember if pocketbase will automatically write migrations to disk for you or if there's a flag you need to turn on, but you can generate those migrations on a local instance, commit them to VCS, deploy them somewhere, and either run a command to run the migrations or turn on auto-migrate (which does what you'd expect).

Obsidian for notes in markdown + Claude Code/Gemini Cli pointed to the Obsidian Vault Folder

There is probably already Obsidian Extension for this in Co-Pilot format

Created a short orbital simulation with gemini pro to show its trajectory (weirdly none of the google results showed anything!)

https://g.co/gemini/share/df34014f2588

love this idea! started my journey on bluesky just documenting long form videos only that i have loved https://bsky.app/profile/rohitjha.com

Thanks! What you're doing on bluesky is really similar to what we're trying to accomplish with Rhome

yes!

Use it everyday https://github.com/jharohit/team-timezone-wall

Also built a AI NDA tracker for all our NDAs in the company which is awesome! We will open source soon.

I'm having trouble seeing how AI is used/needed here, can you explain?

You mean you just know the city the person is in but not the timezone?

I have multiple people per city and don't always remember who is where.

ah! like names of people is it? hmm let me see, good point for larger teams. how would you ideally want to see it - just click on tile and it pops up a textbox with all names? dont want to complicate it

Use Ghostty