bittwiddle

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by bittwiddle 5mo ago
Or the better formula: Find a small niche you're passionate about, thats too small for the large companies but perfectly reasonable for you and small/mid size team.
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by bittwiddle 7mo ago
Nice video. There have been some modern hypercard attempts, has anyone used any of those? They seemed pretty promising during the wave of "no-code" just before LLMs entered the scene. But hypercard still grants users the joy of cr
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by bittwiddle 11mo ago
A while back I built a magic-themed game to solve the problem of getting younger kids past visual block-coding tools(scratch etc) and into real programming. It's called Lambda Spellcrafting Academy. Kids craft spells using logic and fu
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
While great for a personal Whatsapp, this kind of defeats the point of using it for a business.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Did you know the soundtrack was composed in a module tracker? Someone recently recorded the full soundtrack playing back in Milkytracker. Pretty neat since you can see how the composers wrote the songs. https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Hey this is pretty cool! Have you thought about putting it online? I've occasionally used tools like Adobe's color scheme finder, where you upload an image and it suggests a fitting colorscheme derived from the photo. Though hones
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
With packet radio you can transmit digitally, and basically have IRC via radio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
So I understand wanting to build emulators so that people can continue to play their old games after the hardware fails. But in building an emulator for a current generation console, it seems likely that much of the audience is just interes
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Impressive memory optimizations. Streaming out converted pixel values was a neat way of pulling off the "framebuffer" without having enough memory for storing all the 16 bit values. Solid engineering.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Far more people / companies are designing PCBs than there are designing custom chips.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
I built a little game around the idea of a visual representation of s-expressions. It is meant to make it easier for newcomers to learn to program. The visualization not only allows you to edit programs more easily, but also to observe it a
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Palmer Luckey founded Anduril which makes military drones.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
I had the same thing. Tested on desktop for others in the game boat: its a story about repairing an old macintosh. Some pretty nice scrolling effects.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
Thanks for sharing! I'm currently trying out a bootstrapped hw project myself, and have enjoyed following along with your progress. You mentioned having trouble working with vendors, was this for ex: having boards assembled? I guess I&
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
This is why most "semiconductor" companies are actually fabless, focusing on design while working with a partner(like TSMC) to have their designs manufactured.
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by bittwiddle 2y ago
I've found Rust very pleasant for building little games. I've mostly been using SDL + a my own little shim so I can target web through wasm & canvas. I had professionally worked with C++ for a long time so getting comfortable
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by bittwiddle 3y ago
You might enjoy this paper : https://faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/USAconscious... Its a bit long but I thought it was completely worth the read. It proceeds in a very gradual series of steps to make the
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by bittwiddle 3y ago
I built a game you might find interesting. It's basically a visual Lisp wrapped up in the idea of arranging magical cards to build spells. https://www.bittwiddlegames.com/lambda-spellcrafting-academy... The demo is pla