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The game dev environment they’re talking about is MakeCode Arcade. I’m also a big fan of it. There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCode—scroll dow…

I used to flip the link syntax all the time too. What finally helped me to remember it was noticing how I write links in plaintext emails. In email, I naturally write things like "…

Suppose you want to use asterisks to mark footnotes.* As soon as you add a second footnote,** you're in trouble because your asterisks disappear and everything between them turns b…

UBC’s CPSC 110 uses Racket. It was built around How to Design Programs when I took it years ago, and at a glance I think it still is.

OpenToonz is cool. When I experimented with it, I found the Tahoma2D variant easier to get going, though.

This looks like it’s a story about some Israeli individuals being arrested for organ trafficking, and not at all a story about prisoners in Israel having their organs harvested.

TIS-100 is great. The “mesh of many tiny cores” architecture is cool, and also somewhat mind-bending — but the simplicity of the TIS design makes it just about possible to get your…

I’m always delighted when I visit HN and see one of your blog posts on the front page; they posts are great and they elicit some of the most interesting HN discussions. It took me …

Good links, thank you!

What were the problems you encountered? Obsidian creates a hidden directory in your “vault,” which contains plugin files, plus metadata about your settings, currently opened files,…

You can downvote comments after accruing a certain amount of karma (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html )

Have you looked at the handheld keyboard-trackpad units that Rii makes? They don’t quite tick all your boxes, but I think it could still be a step in the right direction. I am quit…

Cool work, thank you for sharing!

I learned about this phenomenon earlier today, from an artist who does a fantastic job teaching colour theory and colour science under the handle “color.nerd” If this interests you…

Fantastic! The comment you're replying to sent me looking for references, too. The closest I found was this article, which mentions an installation at RAF Truleigh Hill: https://ww…

This comment on a related HN post seems to indicate they're still working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542606 Here's the example link from that comment: https://platform…

Wow, it would be great to have software that supported this! I’m an art teacher, and one of my favourite things to do with the kids is to create interactive digital comics. We use …

Here's a ridiculous idea: photographic contact printing using a transparent LCD screen! A good result would probably require commercially made photo paper, but maybe this could wor…

Since the title is a bit vague: this is a demo of the Mergenthaler Diagrammer, a tool for (semi-)automating the production of technical drawings like circuit schematics. From a qui…

I’m waiting for a uConsole too. Here’s the latest shipping update: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/update-uconsole-shipping-rel...

Here’s their recommendation: “WHO suggests that non-sugar sweeteners not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases” [0] But th…

This looks great. I have been hoping to make a Pico into a little 8-bit-micro style computer, but there’s lots to learn first! I bought Pimoroni’s VGA demo board ( https://shop.pim…

Replying to myself to add some context: I teach “media arts” classes at an art school for young people. (Most of my classes are for 6-8 tear olds or 9-12 year olds.) Some of my col…

I have had great fun making some simple games in GDevelop! If you know a bit about programming and have an idea for a silly multimedia project, I highly recommend giving it a go. T…