chrisparton1991

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by chrisparton1991 7y ago
I decided to buy one when the smoke from the Sydney bushfires blanketed my town. In my bedroom I could see and taste the smoke. The air purifier struggled, but it cleared the air around my computer quite well. I have dividing curtains in my
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by chrisparton1991 7y ago
So devastating that such a brilliant mind and wonderful person is gone. I've used FastLED for a lot of projects, and it's always been a joy to work with. Daniel was always present in the community, friendly and patient. When you l
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by chrisparton1991 7y ago
When I skimmed over the title, I thought it said "KKK has acquired Corel". That was going to be one of the more interesting reads for the day!
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by chrisparton1991 7y ago
I previously used mine to drive my synchronised Christmas light display. It worked great one year, then for some reason the next year, retrieving the playback position of an audio file in Java was taking nearly a second (previously it was p
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
reCAPTCHA pushed me over to DuckDuckGo. I use a VPN, and a fair number of my Google searches are blocked by a reCAPTCHA with 5 or more challenges. Now, I use DDG and fall back to Google search with !g if I can't find what I'm look
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
You can get an Arduino Nano clone for considerably less than $5 on eBay. The cheapest price I can find a local Pi Zero for on eBay is $24 AUD (without an SD card). I use Arduinos and similar boards to drive addressable LED strips. A lot of
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I wasn't feeling fulfilled by my work either, so I started working on a side project to scratch my creative itch. Over the last few years I've been building a sequencer ( https://github.com/sparkled/sparkled )
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I rewrote my reducers with Immer as well. I had some pretty complex nested updates that became super simple with Immer, love it!
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Chrome Dino source code(github.com)
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
In a similar vein, Android has Log.wtf, which stands for "What a Terrible Failure".
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Yep, source maps do the trick.
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
> Unlike JavaScript in the browser, or Java with a powerful IDE like IntelliJ, you can’t just set breakpoints everywhere I'm using IntelliJ to set breakpoints everywhere in a Node application at this very moment. It's super eas
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I prefer ESP32 boards myself. Super fast, cheap and they have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in. There are some pitfalls, such as the ESP32 using 3.3V logic whereas most LED strips use 5V logic, but once you figure out how to use them they can b
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
You don't have to tell me twice! I have a giant box full of the things.
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
This is a fun article, I enjoyed reading about the reverse engineering aspect. These days you can easily buy 5 metres of dirt cheap addressable LED strip and control them with an Arduino and FastLED. You don't get same learning experie
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Evergreen looks quite nice, but their website isn't responsive and that gives me pause when considering it for my own projects. The components themselves may work fine, but I can't be sure without digging in further. Just somethin
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Old-school Winamp. I use Spotify these days, but man it was fun to customise skins and play with the awesome visualisers. Half-Life 3 would also be nice, but I guess it was never "around" to begin with.
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Cool, I understand it's more important to get an MVP up and running before applying optimisations. It's good to know that it's on your radar though :) Thanks for answering my question, and best of luck with Hyperfiddle!
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your work! Your demo app has a 1.7MB payload after gzipping (the main.js file alone is 9.5MB before gzip). For me, this alone would be a dealbreaker. Do you have plans to reduce the payload size?
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I'm definitely keen to collaborate once my core features are a bit more stable! I'm working hard on a stage editor at the moment, I'll send you a video sometime soon :)
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
Nice to see you on Hacker News Ben! This is Chris a.k.a. ChrisLights, I spoke to you about Sparkled on one of your videos a while back. It's awesome to see you getting some recognition for your excellent work on Pixelblaze, keep it up!
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I know what you mean about libraries. There are so many out there that cover 80% of my use case, but they're all missing 20% in different areas. I think I've finally found what I'm looking for in Raphael.js + Raphael.FreeTran
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
For one of my websites (a static page with some pretties), I challenged myself to remove as much cruft as possible without degrading the experience. I used Fontello to strip out unnecessary FontAwesome icons and uncss to remove unused Boots
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
This is really neat, good job! This reminded me of "Code" by Charles Petzold, which I saw you reference in the About page. As a software engineer with an interest (but no professional training) in hardware design, I think it'
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I'm about a quarter way through this book and I'm enjoying it so far. This line, however, didn't resonate with me: > To encourage 8-10 productive hours, serve dinner 8-10 hours after morning stand-up. As a person who enjoy
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
The only commits from Tim himself are some documentation and a typo fix: https://github.com/solid/solid/commits?author=timbl The project doesn't look particularly active from a commit standpoint, though I can
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
You should be able to print it as a PDF via Chrome.
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
I sort of slipped into contract work this year. After ~5 years of full time work I'd had enough, and I quit my job in January to do more things that I wanted to do (spend time outdoors, work on side projects etc.) A few months ago I wa
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
From doomstat.h line 60: // Game Mode - identify IWAD as shareware, retail etc. extern GameMode_t gamemode; I haven't done a deep dive on the code, but it looks like gamemode is set based on something in the WAD file.
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by chrisparton1991 8y ago
And it comes at the cost of having to process all of those pixels. I think I'd rather have a cooler laptop with longer battery life than a very marginal visual improvement to my screen. That said, I'm all for progress and cramming

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