Unit520

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by Unit520 3y ago
Destructible Tetris blocks: https://unit520.net/deadtrees/ Silly physics fun in the browser, but not a complete game (yet).
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by Unit520 4y ago
Some sort of systemic corruption in corporate culture must have emerged at least around the time when Personell was renamed to "Human Resources". I mean, think about it for a second, if you were to hire some people to help you wit
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Show HN: ColorTiles Browser Game(colortiles.net)
3 points by Unit520 4y ago|0 comments
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by Unit520 4y ago
This is actually written in C++ and I compile it to a native executable during development, and yet it crawls to a stop exactly the same, so I'm afraid that that one's on me. :D (It's an inefficiency related to the breakage p
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by Unit520 4y ago
Thank you all for your nice comments and suggestions, be assured that I read every comment even if I didn't reply to you personally! I'm glad you liked it and will continue to work on it some more, you had some great suggestions t
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by Unit520 4y ago
Thanks for reporting! Yeah, I'm aware of this error, it seems to be related to the shared hosting I'm using, I can't replicate it when serving locally. But as long as it is "falling back to ArrayBuffer instantiation&quot
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by Unit520 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback, using the phone's accelerometer is actually a great idea! As others mentioned, there are web APIs for that these days, I'll try to include something like that in the next version.
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Show HN: Tetris, but silly(unit520.net)
389 points by Unit520 4y ago|96 comments
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by Unit520 4y ago
That's exactly the stack I use as well: C++, OpenGL and Dear Imgui compiled via Emscripten. You can take a look at Hexmap [0] which is built this way. All in all the performance is great for highly interactive stuff that does some fair
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by Unit520 4y ago
Hello HN! This web app is a different take on the typical hex editor/viewer tool. Using this graymap visualization you can easily get a quick overview over binary data and spot interesting structures. One good example to try out is the
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by Unit520 4y ago
Very cool hack indeed! One thing I learned from this is that having an HDMI port gives you a free I2C port on top as well, as long as you have an old HDMI cable lying around to cut open. Small note on using these OLEDs with 5V: Typically th
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Show HN: Hexmap, interactive WebGL/WASM based binary data exploration(unit520.net)
3 points by Unit520 4y ago|1 comments
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by Unit520 5y ago
Reading this article motivated me to take a closer look at printf/iostreams alternatives, and I have to say, the mentioned {fmt} library finally made me switch, so thanks for that!
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by Unit520 5y ago
WebAssembly has no access to the outside world at the moment, that is correct. It is only able to call (and be called by) JS. A C++ application compiled via Emscripten ships (a fairly large amount) of JS glue code that exposes all relevant
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by Unit520 5y ago
He most likely just didn't pay enough close attention or thought about it I guess. And I agree that MS set themselves up for success with this type of scenery, it is fascinating how well the end result looks overall.
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by Unit520 5y ago
Slightly off-topic, but still anecdotal how far CGI has come, I recently showed my dad who hasn't played any video games for at least 20 years this [0] video of the current MS Flight Simulator. It is produced in a documentary style, so
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by Unit520 5y ago
Outrageous, this can't be! But seriously, it is saddening sometimes to see so much mindshare and engagement wasted on poorly thought out "solutions" to whatever issue is currently trending on Twitter. Even worse, the constant
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by Unit520 5y ago
Upcoming versions of Google Docs will use canvas based rendering [0], and I presume their custom renderer might be compiled to WebAssembly. WASM and Canvas (potentially using WebGL) are definitely an interesting combination right now. [0]