SOFREP on MSN: Military-grade survival skills: Thriving in the wilderness without technology
In an age where we lean heavily on technology, this piece highlights the essential survival skills needed to face unexpected challenges in the wilderness, emphasizing the importance of preparation, ...
Bloxstrap An open-source, feature-packed alternative bootstrapper for Roblox. This is a drop-in replacement for the stock Roblox bootstrapper that I’ve been working on for the past few months. It works more or less how you’d expect it to, while providing additional useful features. You can think of this kind of like Roblox Studio Mod Manager, but on steroids and for Roblox Player instead ...
IMPORTANT NOTE: This also causes an issue with pre-existing installations, where opening the app normally is impossible as the bootstrap process fails due to the installer crashing. However, using a custom bootstrapper (Bloxstrap), allows me to open the app normally, while still being on the latest version 618. Deployment information:
No hot-reloading, Bootstrap is a one-shot call. Reloading a module requires a full game restart. This is intentional for predictability but worth knowing. No circular dependency detection, if module A’s Init calls Loader:Get('B') and B’s Init calls Loader:Get('A'), you’ll get a silent nil on one side. Structure your Init calls to avoid this.
Building a fullscreen catalog GUI that resizes all the way from desktop to mobile resolutions is a tall order in ROBLOX. I am wasting a lot of time rescaling GUI elements with code to make things scale in certain ways and implement the equivalent of CSS float: left. I would like to be able to build all my GUIs using modern web frameworks like Bootstrap. I would like to do all of my GUI ...