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by vunderba 6mo ago
Oh, I see what you’re saying. I like these types of tests where you incorporate well-known objects from the training data into unusual geometries. Kind of makes me want to take advantage of the multi-image editing capability, since you can
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Oh neat, I'd never heard of them. Almost feels like a spiritual predecessor of CDNs, serving optimized assets from existing websites via their servers.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
NB doesn't support direct editing of an image. But you can open the image in something like Krita or Photoshop, highlight the part you want to change with a red marker, and then ask Nano Banana to modify that highlighted section. It us
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice. Back when I lived in Taiwan, several of my students regularly played Magic: The Gathering (魔法風雲會). I’d been playing since 4th edition so I was already very familiar with it. Combined with the fact that I was studying traditional Chi
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Now now. Don't be so tightfisted with the bandwidth. You know what they say, "People will hate you Steve, if you're too sting-ee!" https://www.audioatrocities.com/games/lastalert/index.html
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by vunderba 6mo ago
No shade! I went and checked out of curiosity, since it looks like we’re both using Astro as a static site generator. Most of my articles are pretty media rich and weigh in between 1-2 megs. I do try to be pretty conscientious about asset c
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I know flash had its downsides - but messing around with Macromedia Flash to make stupid little animations back in the day was so fun. Plus Silverlight made Flash seem like a dream.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Nice! We were one of the first families on the block to have a 33.6 kbps modem, and were the envy of every filthy peasant who still had a 28.8 back in the day.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
If it were 1999, most people would still be browsing the web on their US Robotics 56k modem (at best). This page is about 1 MB of assets (500kb gzip compressed if your browser supported it) , so it would have taken at least a minute just to
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Not for me it isn't. Still rocking a LTSC copy of Windows 10 IoT on an older desktop. It's on the fixed lifecycle policy - no new features (to me that's a bonus) but still gets security patches until 2032.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I’ve had a lot of success using LLMs to help with my Three.js based games and projects. Many of my weird clock visualizations relied heavily on it. It might not be a game engine, but it’s the de facto standard for doing WebGL 3D. And since
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Timdle's UI is a bit wonky but the NYT puzzle is very straightforward - you just drag and drop each event into the timeline. The reason it's weekly is because they likely are curating them by hand.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Our circle of friends tends to gravitate toward games (such as Balderdash [1]) that don’t necessarily give an asymmetric advantage to the people who own them and likely have a lot more hours of experience. [1] - https://en.wikipe
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Love this. I did something similar myself. I wanted to create a sequel to one of my favorite old PC trivia edutainment games for MS-DOS that I played as a kid, RedHook's Revenge, which came out in the early ’90s. This was decades later
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Battleship, the almost astoundingly commercially successful board game which I (and likely many other kids) found so incredibly boring that even jazzing it up with an electronic display and sound effects didn't really help. All kidding
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Honestly I'd heard so much seemingly conflicting information about the quality of 4.7 that I've got an override in CC to stay on Opus 4.6 (1 million token context) for the time being. For reference, in the .claude/settings.l
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah seedream's attempt does have a bit of an uncanny valley effect: the mermaid/dolphin are only partially submerged, but there’s water above them with sunlight reflecting on the surface, and the mermaid’s hand looks disconnected
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Thanks. That's a good one~ Lens type stuff that involves reflections/refraction is a neat challenge for generative models. I did some editing tests that involved replacing an apartment window with a mirror back when Nano-Banana Pr
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I use the W3 preliminary guidelines - you could try adapting them into a bespoke skill as a good start. https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/preliminary Another possibility (although I’ve never actually tried this
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Yeah the dragon one is just a complete mess. The car is sideways but the WHEEL is oriented in a first-person perspective. Seems like a case of overfitting with regard to the thousands of pelican bike SVG samples on the internet already.
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by vunderba 6mo ago
So if you zoom in (click the zoom button on the actual gpt-image-2 of the flat Earth), you’ll see that a lot of the people are anatomical impossibilities, which is one of the disallowed criteria on the list. The faces also look like melted
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Right? "Build your own extension" to fix a website's accessibility problems is the equivalent of telling somebody who is disabled to stop complaining about the lack of ramps when they can just modify their wheelchair with a j
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by vunderba 6mo ago
That's a really terrible option for the vast majority of people who simply lack that kind of tech savviness to be able to do it. And in my opinion, it's kind of selfish. It also doesn't solve the issue if somebody is browsing
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I could see that. I’ve found that the more specificity you add to your prompt and less freedom you give Claude Code to kind of just “do its own thing”, the better your results will be. FWIW, there’s also an official frontend-design skill
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by vunderba 6mo ago
My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades
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by vunderba 6mo ago
That makes sense. I almost thought maybe one way to do it might be to use generative AI with a ControlNet to create a more photorealistic 3D version of each of the pixel-art environments, and then use those images with your approach.... the
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by vunderba 6mo ago
Great stuff. I especially like the pumpkin example, where you can basically place the light inside the pumpkin and have it illuminate the interior. It’s a really nice effect, and very well done. I didn't see an example but do you have
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by vunderba 6mo ago
DALL-E 3 (last version I think) went dark over a year ago and has since been replaced by the gpt-image-x series which honestly is a bit of a shame because the weird surreal images it generated were still pretty fun from an experimental poin
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by vunderba 6mo ago
I still use Imgur from time to time just because it’s convenient, but I’ve been meaning to build an Imgur-style extension for my site for a while, something that would let me drag and drop media for quick sharing but it being Astro-based (s
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by vunderba 6mo ago
The goal isn’t the prompt itself. The test is whether a prompt can be expressed in such a way that we still arrive at the author's intent , and of course to do so in a way that isn't unnatural. The prompts despite their variation

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