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Hey HN,

I’ve been trying to spend more time working on small fun projects and wanted to share with you a fun word guessing game I made inspired by Wordle and Minesweeper.

Here’s how it works:

You guess a 5 letter word, and get back a score representing the “distance” between your guess and the correct word.

The lower the score, the closer you are to the correct word.

The score is calculated by taking the sum of the distance between the letters of your guess and the correct word, multiplied by the levenshtein distance between the guess and the correct word.

Scores for each guess are tallied into a final total. Try to win the game by guessing the correct word with the lowest score.

It’s also a PWA so it’s installable for on the go playing

I hope you enjoy it!

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I know this could be considered blasphemous, but I constantly find myself using Make as a task runner. I have written my own task runner in the past, but somehow I always end up using make.

I went, and I put together 3 quality of life snippets I use all the time and put it in a single makext.mk file that can be included in other Makefiles and wrote a basic readme for it.

This is not meant to be a replacement for other task runners, but I do think it can be useful to some of you.

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/makext

Check it out and see if it makes sense to you.

Thanks for any feedback or comments.

Cheers

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Muzan is scheming, but the slayers have plans to counter his plot.

The Gunners head to Old Trafford, with a defeat unthinkable.

Apple News Plus subscribers can play a new crossword puzzle every day.

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Chances are dimming that the Fed will cut interest rates this year. This week's inflation report could be a game-changer.

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I have a real problem. For many years I had Google Photos. It was advertised as free forever, and I uploaded all my old archives from hard drive to cloud service. I never overused it, but global enshittification of Google poisoned this service also at some point. I partially agree with this move, even if I already pay Google for Youtube and watch advertisement I decided to pay for the storage and subscribed to Google One.

About month ago, Google somehow scammed me to switch plan with their unfamous woke AI. I thought they would try to lure me to taste Gemini and if it is ok then I will decide to switch from ChatGPT or other services I pay. But as soon as I switched, I found that now the price for Google One is 10-12 times more with storage I don't need. I barely use 1 Tb with 15 years of contents. Shame on me I trusted Google again with my personal data.

So, now I have time until July 31, 2024 to transfer all my photos and data to somewhere else. Because Google One doesn't provide any options to switch back to my old 2 Tb plan. Funny part that I paid for my 2 Tb plan upfront for one year and spend about just half of this period.

What do you recommend as an alternative to Google Photos and how can I save my data? I remember that they use internal format to store images and once they ask me to switch to this format to save data. Did you recover from this move and were able to restore all your family photos?

I need something reliable with phone backup application. Preferably with a family plan. We mostly use Apple phones and computers with my wife and kids.

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