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I've been playing with this for 30 minutes, and I'm still smiling my head off. It's just so much fun. I have used Pico-8 a bunch in the past (so it was easy to jump into making stu…

Damn, really fantastic article - there goes the rest of my day playing with this!

Not sure why you'd turn this into a game (it's awesome though!), but for anyone who hasn't seen the movie - I'd recommend it. It really has stuck with me long after I saw it. Start…

I can't believe you posted that - just yesterday I was thinking about how dark that song was. The bit that really stood out was how "anti-Billy" it was: "He says his name is Willia…

Woah. I've spent the last year-or-so messing with coding the C64 and hoovering up any information I could find... and I never found this site/ftp. So much good stuff - there goes m…

I'd argue that CoffeeScript was dead before Typescript went mainstream, and that JavaScript killed CoffeeScript: or rather, CoffeeScript killed itself. Many of the features that ma…

I felt the same way last year, and had just moved countries. I decided I wouldn't apply for any jobs that were "normal": the normal work I would do. No IT consultants/agencies, no …

I like the "const TodoStore = class extends EventTarget" idea to trigger rendering... neat trick!

I think the article's argument of "...at a specific moment between 1688 and 1690" might be prior art.

Some feedback: "This is the first test on our app", "Option1, Option2, Option3, Option4", random pictures of fingers, "Dddd, "Eeee"... doesn't really give any indication on what th…

This is great! I've been trying to learn audio programming for ages and this (along with repo: https://github.com/yamadapc/augmented-audio ) look like really fantastic resources!

My blog has been going since 2004, I add between 3 and 20 posts a year. I write the articles for me, in the future. I enjoy writing, and I'm pretty much the only person who will ev…

Another great "foley" movie is Rajio no jikan (Radio Time) or sometimes called "Welcome Back, Mr McDonald: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133170/ Its the story about a team of B-lis…

I use this as a productivity tool: See something interesting on HN, click the link... it's a blank page. Close the page, do something else. Often I remember I'm procrastinating and…

Just wondering... (really interested, not being snarky!) I see this opinion with family members and other people who aren't in tech/computers (the majority of people). I figured it…

It's in the faq under "can I post a job ad?" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html "Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, b…

I felt the same. During my last job search I decided to click on anything that looked like it wasn't "regular-old" web - no web tech companies, no agencies etc. I looked for differ…

You got me wondering what was going on - 425Kb seemed pretty high. I imagined there would only be around 50K of non-compressed source code. Turns out the 200Kb+ culprit is the text…

Nothing at all - rewriting it for WebGL1 would be trivial (if you rely on OES_vertex_array_object being present). But really it was just me learning, and I naively assumed WebGL2.0…

I can't believe it's actually happening - I was resigned to the fact it was dead. I once (4 years ago, sheesh) made a "Pure-JS, no-build-step-required Minecraft Thing": https://git…

Oh boy, I dread when someone goes to show me something on their phone! (Here, let me show you a youtube video about it xD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9EWf-wXQ3o ).

I think it's a bit of a hack for people like me: everyone has been taught to sound super-confident, make everything super glossy and slick and over-produced. Almost always it's to …

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where a world-wide component shortage coupled with a long-term global pandemic meant it might be decades (or never) between finding new/replacement …

I think they are intentionally being obtuse - everyone in the community just calls it G19A and gets on with it.