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   by rezmason 4y ago

   Thank you! A lot of what's possible via the configs is really tricky to specify via a URL, sadly, so I'm thinking of making a GUI to expose the rest of the knobs and switches. That's a ways down the road, though. I'm gla
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   That's incredible! The ingenuity of code golfers and other constrained coding varieties stymies me.
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   I'm glad you like it! The original one was made by the team who produced the fancy website in '99, using the tools for making fancy websites in '99 (Macromedia Director). A noble effort! If it had looked any better, we might
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   Uh oh, is it broken in Safari again? Seems to work in Safari 15.6.1, may I ask what version of Safari you've got? I'd love it if you filed an issue.
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   I sure do! The more esoteric a script is, the fewer people are around to tell you you're using it wrong. If you're tired of the standard fare and want fresh weird alphabet, might I recommend the scripts Johannes Trithemius pulled
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   I'm open to contributing it. It'd save me the trouble of making and maintaining screensavers myself, which is a very common request. The struggle to support a Mac screensaver for more than a few years at a time has already swallow
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   That's really neat! I like the tunnels under the giant trapezoids, they make me think of those enormous trapezoid buildings in Blade Runner. I can't take credit for Drivey's aesthetics, I'm just honored to have carried i
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   Someone with your level of optimism has an advantage. The tricky thing is, this project's renderer is currently a queue of circles to draw to a canvas. It's under 100 lines of JavaScript. So any increase in complexity will require
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   by rezmason 4y ago

   Some people run their browsers with JavaScript turned off. Some folks disable CSS. Some even browse via Lynx, a text web browser. It seems like the author's met some of these folks.
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I'm amused that we share initials and a passion for this kind of project! Mine's https://rezmason.github.io/drivey . One key difference: this guy built his demo from scratch, whereas mine's a port of someone
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    Thanks for making this, by the way. I think the design of standard APIs will increasingly cater to engine developers and folks willing to pore over specs, and the folks running smaller scale operations will have a harder time leveraging new
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I've maintained a small WebGPU project for a little while, and haven't had to utilize any solutions like Use.GPU. I'm not here to express an opinion about it, but if you like using WebGL without adding large dependencies to y
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I'm exaggerating; Adobe Flex's MXML was an XML schema for building application UIs declaratively. It supported custom elements, which would correspond to classes you'd write, whose constructors, fields and methods would mirro
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    > Now if you were one of those unlucky people who had to code Actionscript Unlucky? Adobe had us writing typesafe ECMAScript, JSX and SwiftUI in 2006. The unlucky ones were folks who thought they had to use PureMVC, cairngorm or RobotLeg
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    I should add that Ed Fries, widely known for his role in the development of the Xbox and its impact on the console gaming market, has been repairing and reverse engineering old arcade cabinets in an effort to shed light on the earliest inst
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    My favorite easter egg is the flight simulator in Excel 97. Last year I ported it to the web, and wrote an essay about the era of software development it came from: https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg
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    by rezmason 4y ago

    The software written for the earliest versions of iOS are now basically lost to history. The software people run on iOS today will probably last for even less time. Decades from now, people will have virtually no insight into what it was we
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    Oh god, I mixed up DigitalOcean and OpenSea when I read this. Had a rough couple of minutes there.
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    It's got a good feel to it.
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    I'll own one, and I'm a game developer, so, at least one. What part of the license do you feel I should be upset about?
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    I've encountered that, too, in my Excel 97 easter egg reproduction. My terrain loops in the shader, but camera position is governed by the JavaScript, so it can get weird far from origin if I don't sanitize. Here's how the te
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    This is cool! I wonder why the viewport is only a 300px square.
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    I implemented Hashlife for a different CA rule set earlier this year. Hashlife's data structure is a quad tree embedded in a hash table. Most Hashlife instances only spend a few short moments simulating cellular automata at the "g
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    Whoa! I remember this song from my childhood! However, I heard it on a Mac, where it was probably integrated into someone's shareware video game. It wouldn't be the first time. I think quite a few of my favorite video game tracks
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    Remember when the Internet was fun and less serious, and stuff like this happened on major websites?
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    This past year I've live streamed the development of a small web app that benefits enormously from web workers: https://github.com/Rezmason/wireworld-player https://rezmason.github.io/wireworld-pla
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    It's none of my business, but how has he been? Your mileage may vary, but I'm optimistic about the overall transferability of Flash skills to the Unity and web stacks at the very least.
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    Maybe the only free game in town. I remember Macromedia charging students about fifty bucks for Flash in the early 2000s, but memory can be unreliable. Skimming through the Wayback Machine, I see it going for about twice that at my alma m
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    What a one-sided article. Surely the process that led to her appointment included the perspectives of people who this reporter didn't bother to seek out or represent.
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    by rezmason 5y ago

    I like recognizing samples in their original contexts, but something made the moment of recognition especially poignant this time. What an awesome piece of music history.