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Unit: A visual programming system [video](youtube.com)
104 points by spiralganglion 3y ago|38 comments
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
As someone considering migrating from Heroku to Render, the suggestion that you'd suspend an account — paid or not — without notice is concerning. You said you'd fix your systems, but didn't specify how. • Will you pause the
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
> Apple’s Vision Pro isn’t an iPhone moment, or at least, not exactly. At $3,500, it’s very expensive in the context of today’s consumer electrics market, where the iPhone launched for $600 (without subsidy, and then rapidly switched for
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
I'm confused. This seems like a much better language than CreamByrd. Why is CreamByrd supported in the browser natively and DreamBerd not? Feels unfair on the part of the standards bodies.
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
Can you give some examples? In particular, an example of how using "violent communication" could ever address scar tissue.
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
Yeah, you're right about FF chugging on that homepage. I had added a bit of dynamic LOD that attempts to drop quality if the frame rate goes to shit, but that can only help so much. Canvas 2D in FF has more perf cliffs than in the othe
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
I spent the following year exploring the space with a handful of prototypes, and then recorded a series of podcast episodes as a form of design journaling: https://ivanish.ca/hest-podcast/ Work on Hest continues, but I
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
Author here. The name is something I arrived at after some etymonline spelunking looking for a word that can mean both "function" and "data" if you squint a bit. It's one of the roots of "behest". But the
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
Or Baraka and Samsara if you'd prefer films of the same tradition, minus the somewhat over-the-top Philip Glass scores (which I enjoy more on their own than as part of the films).
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by spiralganglion 3y ago
WebGPU is not meant to be a high-level, beginner-accessible graphics API. It's meant to be a low-level GPU API that expert users can build nice tooling atop. It's an embodiment of the extensible web manifesto's principle that
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
This isn't my experience on iOS / Mac OS. I'm used to seeing videos and animations continue running as they shrink and slide around (IIRC, thanks to CoreAnimation being designed to support exactly this from the outset). The o
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
And yet posts from marco.org or other Apple pundits often do numbers.
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
What does community mean? Does it mean discord servers, or active GitHub repos, or a mailing list, or lots of discussion on social media? Does it mean groups of friends who share enthusiasm for new apps they find and old apps they swear by?
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
I've been happily using Fantastical for this over the past year. The native Mac and iOS apps are beautiful. And since, you know, we folk here tend to be a little code savvy, I just set up a server redirect from mydomain.tld/meet t
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
Dave's work is definitely on our radar, and a big inspiration in our community.
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
For those interested in the theoretical, historical, or experimental fringes of computing, you may enjoy the monthly-(ish) podcast from the Future of Coding community: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes The most recent epi
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
Second this — Heroku pg is the main reason I've stayed with them, paying $$$/month to host my service. If Fly (or Render) can match the seamlessness of that experience, that'll be where I host next.
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
Sorry about that! It's a player made by Omny, my podcast host. But I'm unhappy with them for other reasons too, so I'll be switching away soon — self-hosting, and using the native media player. So your volume slider wishes wi
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by spiralganglion 4y ago
Funny timing — the Future of Coding podcast (disclosure: hosted by myself, sponsored by Replit) just did an episode about Engelbart's Augmenting Human Intellect, perhaps offering a bit of the "more in-depth examination" Amjad
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by spiralganglion 5y ago
I'm particularly happy with the hero "image" — certainly loads faster than any fullscreen retina JPEG, to boot. https://ivanish.ca
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by spiralganglion 5y ago
Reminder to focus on nutritive content, flavour, and crop diversity, not just yield. The past 100 years of industrial scale agriculture, with the singular goal of maximizing yields, has done incredible harm. (This has come up on HN repeated
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by spiralganglion 5y ago
Impressions: * 1.47 pounds is 666g, versus the Switch’s 398g (with Joy-Con attatched). 67% heavier. * I do like that the two people I can see on the landing page both appear to be female, and not overtly "models" at that. I don’t
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by spiralganglion 5y ago
Stripe came up in an era when nobody in the US worried about taxes, generally speaking. That's changing now.
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by spiralganglion 5y ago
Agreed, but I'd like to take it a step further. Rather than fitting new compositional ideas into the patterns and structures of our existing music theories, I'd like to use computation to create new theories. As an example, I&#x27
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
It means Griffin is going to read a final Yahoo.
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
A few of the Nodes devs are in the FoC community, yep!
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
Someone from Gaza
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
This is cool. It would be improved by adding the CSS #controls { user-select: none } (with various vendor prefixes). A bit of refinement to how dragging is detected wouldn't hurt either.
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
I'm the lead on an art/dev team where Animate is our main graphics app. We've been making Flash-based graphics, animations, games, and other media for almost 20 years. Our artists enjoy the idiosyncrasies of Animate, and find
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by spiralganglion 6y ago
For my money, the issue isn't lack of cross-browser support. It's the process by which the PWA specs were designed in the first place. There are more than a handful of cases across the past decade where a new "web standard&qu

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