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New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Flash Back: An "oral" history of Flash"

Caitlynmeeks — Fri, 30 May 2025 01:30:29 +0000

Tumult Hype is a very slick, modern equivalent to Flash and it exports HTML5! It's definitely the easiest way to develop Flash-like html5 apps if you miss the Flash workflow.

https://tumult.com/hype/

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Flash Back: An “oral” history of Flash"

Caitlynmeeks — Fri, 30 May 2025 00:22:44 +0000

Before it was Flash, it was a vector drawing tool called FutureSplash.. in the early 90s i worked at fractal design corp (creators of what's now corel painter) and the Futuresplash folks were interested in selling it to us.. that was before it had an animation timeline or scripting features. I was kind of an in-house artist and the founders really wanted my opinion on whether or not it would be appealing to our customers, like how i as an artist felt about it.

My feedback was that was kind of cumbersome compared to our other tools, and didn't see the potential appeal to our user base and recommended against it, and we declined the offer.

Ultimately I'm glad Macromedia did acquire it because adding scripting and animation appealed to the already diminishing Director/Shockwave platform.

I do wonder how things might have been different had we decided otherwise and acquired Futuresplash-- there'd have been no Flash as we know it!

It's amazing how little decisions we make in the past can project out over time and have larger repercussions.

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "S1: A $6 R1 competitor?"

Caitlynmeeks — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 02:20:19 +0000

https://imgflip.com/i/9j833q

(ptheven)

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade"

Caitlynmeeks — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:31:50 +0000

if you don't want to dip your toe in the festering pile of crap that is X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yvBqasHLZs

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Random Thoughts about Unity"

Caitlynmeeks — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 16:22:10 +0000

Nice one Aras. I can't say I recognize the company anymore, so disfigured from what it once was, but I still love the engine and editor and still use it day to day.

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "How we built JSR"

Caitlynmeeks — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:46:35 +0000

Am I the only one here who saw the title and had hoped it was a post-mortem for Jet Set Radio? :)

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

Caitlynmeeks — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:11:31 +0000

I am reminded of Blahaj Quest

https://blahaj.quest/

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "ChatGPT cut off date now April 2023"

Caitlynmeeks — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:28:08 +0000

Jan 22 here

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Romanian Mint Rubbing Association (RMRA)"

Caitlynmeeks — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:16:41 +0000

a place to discuss mint rubbing, the ancient Romanian practice which will completely changed your life for the better

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "How to make good small games"

Caitlynmeeks — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:20:26 +0000

Very well written. I really dig this. Thanks!

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "GPT Unicorn: A Daily Exploration of GPT-4's Image Generation Capabilities"

Caitlynmeeks — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:12:12 +0000

I got it to generate a cube and an apple in .obj format, legit enough to import into maya, though the apple looked more like a gem stone

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Deck.of.cards"

Caitlynmeeks — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:13:01 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv0EmWhd24Y

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Deck.of.cards"

Caitlynmeeks — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:10:45 +0000

Aw i was hoping it was gonna go to Gregg Turkington's Deck of Cards project

https://www.heinetwork.tv/episode/deck-of-cards-teaser/

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Big Ball of Mud (1999)"

Caitlynmeeks — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:34:18 +0000

aka main.cpp

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Biological effects of kaolin geophagia, or should Amazon be selling edible clay?"

Caitlynmeeks — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 04:22:05 +0000

It's come to my attention that there are several vendors on Amazon who are selling clay and chalk products 'for eating'. These products are targeting people who have pica/geophagy, the urge to eat earth. Amazon is marketing a number of 'edible' clay and chalk products to folks who engage in geophagia, or eating earth. These products are not cleared for human consumption and are usually high in lead, cadmium, arsenic, barium and other heavy metals.

This report from the PAWJ has some interesting statistics on the consumption and health effects of kaolin consumption.

Example: https://a.co/d/80JbEuV

Biological effects of kaolin geophagia, or should Amazon be selling edible clay?

Caitlynmeeks — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 04:22:05 +0000

Article URL: https://tuspubs.tuskegee.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=pawj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34295972

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce"

Caitlynmeeks — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 03:41:19 +0000

Hard to imagine something as loving and magical as Tiny Speck's game, Glitch, wound up getting pivoted into office productivity software acquired by a titanic mediocrity such as Salesforce.

As a former Glitch player it just makes me think of drinking bureaucratic water.

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "I still use Flash"

Caitlynmeeks — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 21:35:10 +0000

Man I miss Flash too!

Tumult Hype is the closest thing to it, but the editor's Mac only.

https://tumult.com/hype/

New comment by Caitlynmeeks in "The Commodordion"

Caitlynmeeks — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:39:11 +0000

This is the best thing ever! Wow! Great work!