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by brendanr 9mo ago
Music Lab by Code.org is a Blockly-based experience, built for K-12 education, at https://code.org/music . It's open source, and we wrote some technical documentation at https://github.com/code-dot-org&#
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Go Computer Now – The Story of Sphere Computers(kottke.org)
2 points by brendanr 11mo ago|1 comments
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by brendanr 6y ago
The vegetables gardens were there literally 90 minutes ago when I took a photo of them.
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by brendanr 8y ago
The transition to CSS transitions seems primitive to me. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati... makes it sound very much like a fire-and-forget approach. My concern, also when
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by brendanr 8y ago
It's not a question of browser support, it's a question of infrastructure support. When I was using them years ago, there were a lot of networks which blocked them.
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by brendanr 8y ago
Is it okay to rely solely on websockets these days? I was always impressed by pusher.com's commitment to a variety of fallback protocols (and there are three blog posts about it, see https://blog.pusher.com/how-we-buil
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by brendanr 8y ago
Big fan of Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin biography, but also did not enjoy his Jobs one. The most interesting part of the story was when Jobs returned to Apple and executed perfectly on everything. It seemed that he'd learned som
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by brendanr 8y ago
Canvas drawing is fast on platforms where it's hardware accelerated, which has been the case on things like iOS Safari for years now. At least in the past it was also beneficial to make a few optimisations such as drawing to integer p
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by brendanr 8y ago
Canvas doesn't have a DOM, for what it's worth.
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by brendanr 10y ago
The perf issues sound suspicious. At least in the past, canvas sprites on iOS can get very slow if you don't render to integer coordinates. Hopefully the author attached macOS Safari to his iOS device to do some basic debugging and pr
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by brendanr 10y ago
Does anybody remember the old Manhunter games from Sierra? They used a very similar idea of replaying a timeline multiple times to track a bunch of suspects as they interacted throughout an event. What was a clever but abstract sci-fi gam
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by brendanr 11y ago
Seems to be in https://github.com/bookiza/bookiza
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by brendanr 11y ago
For Code.org, you will find https://code.org/about/2015 to be quite interesting, including a breakdown of where money was spent. You'll see that a lot goes towards training teachers and building interesting progr
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by brendanr 11y ago
nice design, but i wonder if their design team has any non-retina machines? the anti-aliasing in the tilted phone UI is pretty bad in Chrome on a non-retina display.
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by brendanr 12y ago
If you found this article interesting, check out the book Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas, by Natasha Dow Schüll. It's an incredibly interesting book about building addictive gameplay, the industry that does it, and
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by brendanr 12y ago
I might add that never alerting my phone was the worst thing simply because it was the only reason to buy a Protect. A regular smoke detector continues to detect smoke just fine.
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by brendanr 12y ago
Actually mine just runs on batteries. I think they have an optical sensor which can be triggered by dust. I was told by support that they used to recommend blowing the debris out, but it wasn't good for customer confidence.
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by brendanr 12y ago
Nest did a great job with their thermostat, but the Protect leaves a lot to be desired. I was vacuuming which triggered the sensor. The alarm went off, and it was really loud. I looked at how to hush it, and couldn't figure out how.
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Show HN: Wow Such Chat – chat rooms made fun(wowsuchchat.com)
1 points by brendanr 12y ago|1 comments
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by brendanr 13y ago
Good point. It's essentially a scene-by-scene navigation model, where you jump from one scene to another. While inside a scene there can be animations.. looping, triggered, one-off, etc. I always meant to link to a couple sample proj
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Show HN: Narrativ, create interactive games & stories(narrativ.io)
2 points by brendanr 13y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Narrativ - HTML5 multimedia authoring for web & apps(narrativ.io)
1 points by brendanr 13y ago|0 comments
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The tech stack used in A Little Land(blog.twilightsoftware.com)
1 points by brendanr 13y ago|0 comments