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Consider the RC2014 https://rc2014.co.uk I think it hits a bunch of these points. Also don't overlook the SpecNext https://www.specnext.com -- both have very active communities.

I did a browser based Boids version that simulated galactic colonization: https://coldwar.io/deepspace and a simpler variant with predators: https://coldwar.io/predators

I've been using Redis many years. It's served me well. It's simplicity and vision is a testament to antirez's hard work. Thank you sir.

https://simonswain.com/ Links to personal projects and conf talk videos.

I set mine up with a camera to do timelapse. https://simonswain.com/day

Emacs, and Chrome dev tools. The build environment has jslint set up in it too. I can't recommend enough js{lint|hint}ing all your code. None of the stuff in the sim is super trick…

No frameworks or libs. Vanilla.js, raw Canvas and requestAnimationFrame. In this version, they are symmetric with slight random variations. No reason they have to be though.

Yep. Need the ability to save and share scenarios. Coming.

Yep. All that will be there one day. This is v0.1

Bump up icbm_launch_max to maybe 15, and set stock_icbms to say 100 or so.

Nice Easter Egg!

This is awesome... so much detail.

It's not whether you win or lose. It's how you play the game.

Technically, yes. It's meant to escalate from cold to hot as munitions stockpiles build. But that doesn't make for a very interesting presentation, so it goes direct to Hot.

This video is great... and so dark. This stuff was for real.

Bang on. The dust coming up out of the bases (and to a limited amount, the other assets) are ABMs, trying to take out incoming ICBMs. Goes to Defcon 2 on enemy bombers reaching cit…

SAGE is the inspiration for this... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sage+computer This thing was off the hook...

The BBS login at the start of the talk said: "Greetings, Simon".

There are two views, top view and elevation view. All the actors have an x, y and z. Each of the circle structures is a nation state. It has a capital at the center (square, blinki…

At Defcon 3, Bases launch ICBMs a low probability amount of the time. When one of a nation's assets (factory, base, city), they go to Defcon 1. If your enemy goes to Defcon 1, so d…