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by agys 5y ago
https://ertdfgcvb.xyz It’s just a splash page but it uses the same engine of my ASCII playground: Examples, demos, manual and link to the repo: https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz
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Sodaplay! That brings up fond memories… The original page was a good example of an early (highly–) interactive playground. Some of the user-contributed constructions/creatures were simply amazing.
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Yet, in a moment of poetry and perfect copy-writing one of the most beautiful names for a piece of software is born: Word. …and “Windows” as well.
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by agys 5y ago
A very annoying part of the Canvas API is that colors are represented as (CSS) strings, except for the pixel array, obviously. This forces to write code like this: const fillColor = `rgb(${r},${g},${b})` For the rest: long live the C
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by agys 5y ago
Thank you, great page and article!
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I often reference this short doc from Disney for two reasons: the first is the subject itself, the multi-plane camera; the second is how well the subject is explained. It’s a good example of excellent and clear visual communication even if
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More or less how PoW works…
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by agys 5y ago
What a mess Safari has become. It used to be my preferred browser for navigating AND developing but it has become less and less appealing, especially for the latter (I submitted several bugs to webkit, but my love is fading).
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Modern Artificial Intelligence and Beyond (Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber) [video](youtube.com)
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The scroll-speed and the graphics remind me of the magnificent Xenon II Megablast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nD9DQwd80
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by agys 5y ago
Btw, it would probably be more fun and true to the Lego spirit if they did the furniture with real Lego bricks instead of this kitschy thing that looks like advertisement: just a big pack of default 2×8 lego bricks (monochrome or duotone?)
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by agys 5y ago
Had exactly the same feeling: by upscaling and burning the logo into the wood (altering its brightness) it becomes way too predominant… and repetition does the rest. Personally I have the same attitude with clothing and shoes: can’t wear so
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by agys 5y ago
For my own realtime browser based ASCII projects I update the DOM “manually”: the biggest bottleneck is frequent -horizontal- changes in color as each character with a new color needs to be wrapped in its own <span> element. After all
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by agys 5y ago
The “Rex” potato peeler. A perfect piece of design: ergonomic, solid, low-cost. Small fact: the lateral “blade” to cut out the eyes of the potato is obtained from the removed central part of the main blade; some newer models have it extende
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by agys 5y ago
“Moka 101”: an (almost) scientific approach for the perfect coffee by Ubi de Feo (an obsessive compulsive coffee maniac and great hacker, among other things). Part 1 & 2 https://www.instagram.com/tv/CTE25jEFg8U ht
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by agys 5y ago
It’s Firefox that has become fast…! This is totally unscientific, but I like to write experimental apps that manipulate the DOM heavily and Firefox is very often the fastest between Chrome and Safari in repainting the DOM (this wasn’t the c
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by agys 5y ago
That’s not how they work: each row must be able to display the same information as it will slowly shift towards the top of the billboard. To add a new station (not such a frequent event in Switzerland) you need to modify the blades of -each
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by agys 5y ago
Assembly time-lapse at the museum [1]. The elements just slide into place… They can be pulled out for maintenance even when the display is running. [1] https://vimeo.com/220072274
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To clarify: the split-flap elements used by the Swiss railway (SBB/CFF/FFS) were produced by Omega Electronics and had the controlling hardware embedded on each element, controlled via RS-485; the older Solaris needed an external
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by agys 5y ago
We worked on several split-flap art projects: mostly with sourced pieces… We managed to get our hands on the old main display of the Zürich train station (a beast of 7 tonnes). Most of the elements aren’t alphanumeric but larger words with
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by agys 5y ago
We sourced some Solari alphanumeric split flap elements from the Roma termini train station… they are a beautiful piece of engineering!
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by agys 5y ago
This “system” is addressed in the blog post (under: “New Strategy: we double the bet after each loss”).
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by agys 5y ago
I use .txt files for most of my tasks: all sort of lists, notes, snippets, even organized bookmarks (with comments). I use them also with some indentation and simple geometries for structured information (table-like or hierarchies). Some of
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by agys 5y ago
The true predecessor of the Wipeout series! Wipeout “1972”: https://voxodyssey.com/magnavox-odyssey/wipeout (love the masked square that results in a trail-like sprite)
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by agys 5y ago
Thank you for “augury”! I looked up the etymology in Italian for auguri and it derives from the flight of birds. “Tanti auguri“ means “best wishes“, on the contrary “sciagura” (same root as “auguri”) means “misfortune“.
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I love this project and I love its name even more…!
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Nice article about “Nove Tendencije”. MIT Press also published a book covering the movement. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-known-story-about-move...
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The 3rd illustration displayed (the one that accompanies the claim “A smaller environmental footprint”) is extremely enigmatic…
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“Render anything as HTML checkboxes” is the best headline!
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That’s a lot of keyboards!

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