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semolino
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About semolino
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Comment #49112792
Upon inspecting with developer tools, I was pleased to find that supports GPU acceleration. I vaguely recall reading lore of someone refactoring it up to modern standards in chromi…
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Comment #48984136
I didn't intend to sound so sure :)
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Comment #48970858
Yes, perception of entities during psychedelic experience is unhinged paredolia: psychedelic substances obliterate the squelch for our pattern recognition systems, of which paredol…
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Comment #48754563
The page would benefit from image-rendering: pixelated; in the CSS which would probably(?) prevent the headache-inducing effect, which I'm guessing comes from the hard edges of the…
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Comment #48564455
You can style a link however you want, and nest a inside it if necessary. EDIT: CSS also has appearance: button;
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Comment #48496383
Awesome. Such clean abstractions are inspiring and make me wanna do something with canvas. I also like that the homepage animations are done with CSS. Here for additional modern de…
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Comment #48371856
This method should still support GPU acceleration, as `transform` (or rotate/scale/etc.) is the only property being animated. The benefit of animation-timeline seems to be that it'…
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Comment #48360260
You can have a dynamic camera with 3D CSS only and no JS. The trick is move the scene instead of the "camera". CSS Doom uses this technique (although unlike the project I'm working…
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Comment #48329358
My read on HN comment sorting is that just like its frontpage, everyone sees the same comment page. New comments are added to the top, and quickly sink below others unless they are…
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Comment #48224073
Could you clarify what you mean by saying it may be both unaffordable and surprisingly cheap? (Expensive but less than expensive than it could be? Expensive but of poor build quali…
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Comment #48002183
The main difference is tweakability: With classical generative and algorithmic composition, the human can change parameters in real time and more closely guide the shape of the pie…
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Comment #47716891
Design is delightful, great job. The radial glyph wave animation is also really cool, but the novelty will wear off and the delay will become grating especially if one is using the…
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Comment #47695245
Taking shortcuts with design tends to result in users trusting your project less.
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Comment #47460553
How about the most depraved volume control design of all: the actual reddit web video player (at least the embedded player on old.reddit)? The slider is hidden by default. Hovering…
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Comment #47453087
Well, sure: a pre-unlocked bootloader and an offline-unlockable one are not fundamentally different in terms of freedom. When the user decision to unlock (or "side"-load, for that …
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Comment #47449455
Whether it's essential or not is up to the user, who should be able to load whatever operating system they want (enabling them to bypass the restriction) on their bootloader-unlock…
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Comment #47449048
Being able to decide yourself the software that is allowed to run on the hardware you own.
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Comment #47261103
I first found this site a few months back when researching the logo for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (it appears on a shipping container at a construction site in my area): https://www.mode…
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Comment #47183112
Love Josh's work and usually always learn something new from his tutorials. However, this time, I was really hoping the example implementations would use CSS transforms instead of …
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Comment #46726271
Your quote caused me to consider vibecoding through the analogy of an LLM-human system as a subtractive synthesizer: the LLM is the oscillator, and the human is the filter.
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Comment #46622553
Thank you!
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Comment #46621705
https://bnl.cx
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Comment #46328281
Is this supposed to be the 'bridge facts' easter egg, or something else?
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Comment #46230777
This is what Cascade Layers was designed to solve: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme... A lingering bit of weirdness is that all !important declarations,…
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Comment #46036529
Isn't master ("ruler, teacher, etc.") upstream of master ("definitive version"), though, etomologically-speaking? I do see what you're saying, though, and will admit to some cheeki…