https://web.archive.org/web/20100527013827/http://www.bio-ba...
Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
Cache Monet
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well. https://ambient.garden/ https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ https://terra.layoutit.com/ https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and perhaps also a reflection of a very particular form of "web culture" that has no clear successors.
People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aesthetically inspiring". For that reason I'm kind of lukewarm on neal.fun.
EDIT: so I think a better way to describe it is that when artists experiment with technology, you get something like cachemonet. When developers experiment with technology, you get a web experiment that challenges conventional notions of what you can do with the web, but with varying degrees of creativity. I think terra.layoutit.com is best appreciated by other web devs who can appreciate the sheer amount of work required to figure out how to render a terrain map in CSS, but otherwise it's basically just a tool to generate terrain height maps, and not a particularly good one. Generating terrain maps in CSS is not a feature, but a handicap.
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#33Love it, thank you. Because Wayland doesn't support screensavers, I finally found a solution for my older monitors. This is a perfect replacement.
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#34https://web.archive.org/web/20100527013827/http://www.bio-ba... Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!
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#35If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
Cool stuff, but why is there an entire loading screen and intro animation, then a play button, when it could just link to a gif? Made me lose interest in browsing real quick
It's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.
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#36Sound on!
Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder
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#37If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
Heh, my all time favorite: https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com
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#38If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
Shameless plug of the YTMND site I made more than a decade ago: https://fvcks.ytmnd.com/
Such a simpler time.
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#39I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
I posit that periods of relatively high creativity [ in art science music literature ] coincide with periods of relatively low inequality.
ie. if everyone is working so hard to pay rent / college, nobody has time to work on side projects in the garage, or go deep into books, or dedicate spare time to a craft or do down a science research rabbit hole.
Im not sure LLMs will free up much time for people in the middle of the economy - they might produce more but get paid the same.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well. https://ambient.garden/ https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ https://terra.layoutit.com/ https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and perhaps also a reflection of a very particular form of "web culture" that has no clear successors. People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aest…
I wonder when peak demoscene occurred .. some of those mini code demos seem artistically and technically innovative.