nickloewen

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by nickloewen 5mo ago
The game dev environment they’re talking about is MakeCode Arcade. I’m also a big fan of it. There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCode—scroll down on the homepage and there’s a section that shows them all:
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by nickloewen 6mo ago
I used to flip the link syntax all the time too. What finally helped me to remember it was noticing how I write links in plaintext emails. In email, I naturally write things like "...on the example website (www.example.com)..." Ma
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by nickloewen 6mo ago
Suppose you want to use asterisks to mark footnotes.* As soon as you add a second footnote,** you're in trouble because your asterisks disappear and everything between them turns bold. * I had to escape all of these asterisks. ** I see
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by nickloewen 7mo ago
UBC’s CPSC 110 uses Racket. It was built around How to Design Programs when I took it years ago, and at a glance I think it still is.
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The Year of the Picotron Desktop(arnaught.neocities.org)
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by nickloewen 2y ago
OpenToonz is cool. When I experimented with it, I found the Tahoma2D variant easier to get going, though.
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by nickloewen 2y ago
This looks like it’s a story about some Israeli individuals being arrested for organ trafficking, and not at all a story about prisoners in Israel having their organs harvested.
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by nickloewen 2y ago
TIS-100 is great. The “mesh of many tiny cores” architecture is cool, and also somewhat mind-bending — but the simplicity of the TIS design makes it just about possible to get your head around it. After playing TIS a bit I found it really
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by nickloewen 2y ago
I’m always delighted when I visit HN and see one of your blog posts on the front page; they posts are great and they elicit some of the most interesting HN discussions. It took me a little while to realize that all these good posts were on
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Good links, thank you!
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by nickloewen 3y ago
What were the problems you encountered? Obsidian creates a hidden directory in your “vault,” which contains plugin files, plus metadata about your settings, currently opened files, etc. If those settings don’t work equally well on both syst
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by nickloewen 3y ago
You can downvote comments after accruing a certain amount of karma (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html )
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Have you looked at the handheld keyboard-trackpad units that Rii makes? They don’t quite tick all your boxes, but I think it could still be a step in the right direction. I am quite happy with my Rii I8X. The trackpad exceeded my expectatio
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Cool work, thank you for sharing!
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by nickloewen 3y ago
I learned about this phenomenon earlier today, from an artist who does a fantastic job teaching colour theory and colour science under the handle “color.nerd” If this interests you, I highly recommend having a look: https://linkt
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Fantastic! The comment you're replying to sent me looking for references, too. The closest I found was this article, which mentions an installation at RAF Truleigh Hill: https://www.shorehambysea.com/raf-truleigh-hill&#
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by nickloewen 3y ago
This comment on a related HN post seems to indicate they're still working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542606 Here's the example link from that comment: https://platform.twitter.com/embe
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Wow, it would be great to have software that supported this! I’m an art teacher, and one of my favourite things to do with the kids is to create interactive digital comics. We use software like Krita to draw the pages, and then import them
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Here's a ridiculous idea: photographic contact printing using a transparent LCD screen! A good result would probably require commercially made photo paper, but maybe this could work with a totally DIY anthotype process? And the LCD cou
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Since the title is a bit vague: this is a demo of the Mergenthaler Diagrammer, a tool for (semi-)automating the production of technical drawings like circuit schematics. From a quick look this is what I ascertained: you select a diagram sym
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by nickloewen 3y ago
I’m waiting for a uConsole too. Here’s the latest shipping update: https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/update-uconsole-shipping-rel...
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by nickloewen 3y ago
Here’s their recommendation: “WHO suggests that non-sugar sweeteners not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases” [0] But this is a “conditional recommendation” that “should be conside
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by nickloewen 4y ago
This looks great. I have been hoping to make a Pico into a little 8-bit-micro style computer, but there’s lots to learn first! I bought Pimoroni’s VGA demo board ( https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-vga-dem
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by nickloewen 4y ago
Replying to myself to add some context: I teach “media arts” classes at an art school for young people. (Most of my classes are for 6-8 tear olds or 9-12 year olds.) Some of my colleagues have used GDevelop in their classes, but the project
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by nickloewen 4y ago
I have had great fun making some simple games in GDevelop! If you know a bit about programming and have an idea for a silly multimedia project, I highly recommend giving it a go. The visual interface building tool makes it really easy to sl
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by nickloewen 4y ago
This thread gives a brief explanation of the origin of the word “skeuomorph,” which I hadn’t read before despite having read plenty about skeuomorphic design. Cool! Tanya McCullough’s replies to this thread are also great. I think that iden
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by nickloewen 4y ago
I made a quick survey of text-based display managers a couple days ago. Ly looks fantastic, but I went with tbsm, which had almost no dependencies and was super simple to get going. https://github.com/loh-tar/tbsm htt
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by nickloewen 5y ago
As I understand it, this idea is quite similar to how the central scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, is understood in Sikhi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib
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by nickloewen 5y ago
This is excellent! I have also found Sim Daltonism very helpful for testing out designs. They have a mac app that can add a colourblindness-simulating filter over an area of the screen, and an iOS app that can do the same with a live feed f
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by nickloewen 5y ago
This reminds me of the podcast HowSound, a semi-instructional show about the craft of storytelling for podcasts and radio. I have enjoyed several of their episodes. https://transom.org/topics/howsound/

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