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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
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Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
#42Comic Chat has a special place in my heart because it inspired my first startup back in 2008, a comic creation web app called Chogger. The site grew to 30K monthly users, mostly K-12 educators who wanted to give their students a fun way to write stories.
The comic creator app itself was adobe flex (flash), actionscript 3.0 (like a typed version of javascript), and I remember spending so many hours getting the balloon tail dragging behavior just right...
one of the teachers made a video overview of how it worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKT70TBw1vw
Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
#43The creator is still at Microsoft. Lifer.
As "Principal Program Manager, Copilot Acceleration Team" even. That's sad. It sounds like person in charge of "Hey do you want Copilot? How about now? How about now? And now?! Here's another popup! Do you want it now? Why not?! Have you tried Copilot?" Etc... (I know about title inflation, he's probably not in charge of all that much, but still)
It's a team (part of engineering, not sales) that helps companies that bought M365 Copilot and/or Copilot Studio use it well - http://aka.ms/whoiscat
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#44I remember implementing the paper at some point, and though it was fun enough that it would make for a slightly less boring programming project for students.
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#45Only tangentially related, but I'm convinced Comic Sans is the best font option available in Slack, and everyone should try it.
Comic Mono is the best code font and I will fight anyone who disagrees
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#47Comic Chat has a special place in my heart because it inspired my first startup back in 2008, a comic creation web app called Chogger. The site grew to 30K monthly users, mostly K-12 educators who wanted to give their students a fun way to write stories. The comic creator app itself was adobe flex (flash), actionscript 3.0 (like a typed version of javascript), and I remember spending so many hours getting the balloon…
Ack! It looks so… actionscript. Why does a UI look actionscript? I can’t even begin to imagine why it feels like that.
Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
#48Back when software development was fun. And not the sloppy vibecoded corporate metrics pleaser it has become.
Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
#49Back when software development was fun. And not the sloppy vibecoded corporate metrics pleaser it has become.
this was released in 1996.
Microsoft was at one of its' most powerful evil phases it had ever seen during that phase, and to pretend it was some kind of antithesis to 'corporate metric please' is a disservice to history.
I liked comic chat , and I see that your actual point is more just "ai bad" , but 88-99 microsoft was brutally corporate metric pleasing.
see also : Microsoft antitrust history Microsoft FTC investigation 1990 Microsoft DOJ antitrust 1993 Microsoft 1994 consent decree Microsoft anticompetitive licensing Microsoft per-processor licensing Microsoft consent decree Judge Stanley Sporkin Microsoft vaporware antitrust Microsoft market foreclosure 1990s Gary Kildall Microsoft controversy Stac Electronics / DoubleSpace Microsoft Stac Electronics lawsuit Microsoft DoubleSpace patent infringement Microsoft Intuit acquisition antitrust
feels like selling an old bicycle on craigslist with the amount of things you can tag M$ with.
Re: Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
#50Thirty years old. Hard to believe