I forgot about this, thank you! It was literally my screensaver all through the digitalocean build and got me through a lot of rough days. The clicking, I dunno, I spent too much time getting into weird click rhythms on this site. I would buy whoever made it dinner. https://www.cachemonet.com/save/
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#42Sound on! Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper
what's the symbols for that `ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ ` font? where can I find these
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#43Sound on! Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper
what's the symbols for that `ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ ` font? where can I find these
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#44Sound on! Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper
also, seems like they have another project https://feel.thatsh.it/ and I'd love to find that song as well if you can help haha
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#46If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/
Biggest surprise here is that this website is still around. I was browsing it 20 years ago
Newgrounds still exists.
Having to pass a vote before you were uploaded and available for real I think was a good way to do things. Like a shitty peer review but for coolness.
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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…
This is a good description. Well done.
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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.
I believe the demoscene is still ongoing, especially in France. Would love to understand why that is (French tech: parallel early teletype internet, high demoscene, more open approach to UFOs (GEIPAN) - French don't seem obviously "that different" to Americans, but there's obviously something different going on).
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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…
I'm not sure if that's true. The Renaissance was peak creativity, but also high inequality - from peasants to the Medicis. Chinese and Japanese art seemed to flourish during wealthy imperial times, but decline during war, where the blender of chaos made people much more equal. Chinese art surged back in the last two decades in new modern forms.
Basquiat thrived during peak 1980s New York, and had a rags to riches trajectory, I think. Art is not generally something people get to "as a hobby" when they have time among normal life. The artist mindset is different: you need to do it. It's survival. Not about money. You have to express and create. You probably don't choose like other people.
The true creatives find a way with what they have. This is not to denigrate people who take up painting or photography as a hobby and often produce high quality stuff. It is to distinguish separate experiences. It's also to highlight that "great creativity" comes from a psychic imperative and visceral drive on part of the people who do it.