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Editing Text with a MIDI Controller(sharpoblunto.com)
2 points by mrsharpoblunto 28d ago|1 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 28d ago
While the venerable keyboard and a good text editor are sufficient for most forms of text manipulation, there are cases where more specific tasks call for more specific hardware solutions.
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by mrsharpoblunto 4mo ago
Love a good graphics writeup - I've been working on similar things for my procedural space/planet generator. The cool thing with atmospheric scattering is you can combine it with volumetric cloud rendering and get amazing sunsets
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by mrsharpoblunto 10mo ago
Just let people enjoy things, if you don’t like dark mode, don’t use it.
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by mrsharpoblunto 2y ago
I’ve since done a bunch more on planetary cloud rendering, need to do a proper write up, but it’s a combination of volumetric noise, flow fields & atmospheric scattering. https://x.com/mr_sharpoblunto/status/16
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by mrsharpoblunto 2y ago
The author dismisses cubemaps pretty quickly, but imo it’s the simplest solution & it’s what I did when rendering dynamic gas giants on my own personal project a number of years back* . Using a cubemap doesn’t result in a 6x increase in
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by mrsharpoblunto 3y ago
The story of how I rediscovered the first real project I built after teaching myself to program - an RPG written in QBasic and how I got it playable again 25 years later.
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Rediscovering a QBasic game I made 25 years ago and getting it running again(sharpoblunto.com)
2 points by mrsharpoblunto 3y ago|1 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 3y ago
Great job explaning the whole process! I've been building some similar stuff recently for my procedural space-exploration side project ( https://www.threads.net/@mrsharpoblunto/post/CufzeNxt9Ol ). I was plannin
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by mrsharpoblunto 3y ago
There’s also OpenC1, which is an almost complete open source remake of Carmageddon. Jeff also has posted a ton of content around the internal workings and file formats etc on his dev blog - http://1amstudios.com/projects&#x2
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by mrsharpoblunto 4y ago
We have a new entry for the Dunning-Kruger hall of fame right here.
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MemLab – An open source JavaScript memory leak testing framework from Meta(facebookincubator.github.io)
6 points by mrsharpoblunto 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrsharpoblunto 5y ago
Hi bgirard! I support the FB team that works on this - it's on the roadmap to open source hopefully H1 next year :) It's continued to find significant leaks in other parts of our infra too, so hopefully it will be equally helpful
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by mrsharpoblunto 5y ago
Makes me wonder if you could effectively apply Chernoff faces ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face ) to make different hashes easier for humans to recognize. TLDR map parts of the hash to modify aspects of a fac
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by mrsharpoblunto 6y ago
I used the 4000 for a number of years, but found that it was causing problems in my right shoulder. The reason is the inclusion of a full numpad makes the keyboard so wide that your mouse hand has to sit really far to your right, causing yo
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by mrsharpoblunto 6y ago
Thats why you should also track other metrics when AB testing performance changes. During my time at IG, even small perf improvements almost always corresponded to stat-sig improvements in engagement metrics. 100ms is a pretty significant p
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by mrsharpoblunto 6y ago
Why do you think its in the margin of error? I never mentioned the error bars on the statistic - We did an extensive AB test and it was a 3% stat-sig improvement
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by mrsharpoblunto 6y ago
I added support for ES2017 bundles for compatible browsers for Instagram.com a couple of years ago - we saw a 5.7% reduction in the size of our core consumer JavaScript bundles when we removed all ES2017 transpiling plugins from our build.
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by mrsharpoblunto 6y ago
Can we please stop overcomplicating the terminology around frontend architecture? The whole Isomorphism craze was bad enough - lets not make this stuff more complex than it needs to be and create confusion by over-loading existing terms lik
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
Well you're loading the main feed page of instagram, you expect your feed photos to show right? We don't push random junk - its the content that the page needs to render something useful
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
Can't reveal the exact numbers, but yeah - a lot of people use IG on web :) Mobile web was always the big focus for us though - most people assume its just a desktop only web version, but actually the mobile web version is much more fu
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
You're probably talking about the desktop web version I assume. If you check out the mobile web version its actually pretty close features wise, theres direct messaging, stories, creation with webgl filters,etc. The desktop version of
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
Might have been an earlier version we were testing before we built out the new posts pill, this feature went through several iterations.
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
Yeah, without constant focus on perf, things regress extremely quickly. We're building tight integration with perf budgets into our infra & dev workflows across both Instagram and Facebook, so that any perf regressions will be inte
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
(Author here) To clarify, we don't actually replace it automatically - we show a pill notification that new stories are available. You can either choose to tap it and see the new feed, or ignore it and continue with what you were doing
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
If global sunlight conditions change drastically, we're probably screwed regardless of how we're generating our power. Think crop failures, ecosystem collapse etc.
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
There will almost certainly be a UX impact in the form of performance though - the whole point of micro-frontends as I can see it is that it allows you to have different infra&dependencies in different parts of the UI. The only reason y
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by mrsharpoblunto 7y ago
While I can see some benefits in terms of deployment flexibility, this really seems like a case of prioritizing your organizational chart over the end user experience. Its already hard enough to optimize a large JavaScript SPA so that it ru
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by mrsharpoblunto 8y ago
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast has a whole series on the Persian empire (King’s of King’s) that draws heavily from Herodotus. It gets quite meta in places with a lot of time dedicated to Herodotus and his storytelling style, and he e
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by mrsharpoblunto 10y ago
Plus you lose all the benefits of linters, type checkers, & even things like syntax highlighting.

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