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New comment by spiralganglion in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

spiralganglion — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:41:16 +0000

Credit to Roman Komarov who came up with the approach [1], and Todd Matthews [2] who made the art assets.

1: https://kizu.dev/svg-linked-parameters-workaround/ 2: https://www.seaofclouds.com

Tenfold: Ten Years of Ink & Switch

spiralganglion — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inkandswitch.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884463

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Alan Kay – 75 Years of Graphical User Interfaces [video]

spiralganglion — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:14:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS20Z0RXr28

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46439850

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by spiralganglion in "Ruby website redesigned"

spiralganglion — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:27:10 +0000

This page doesn't need JS. It doesn't need a loading indicator for said JS. It could just be html and css, otherwise unchanged.

Let's Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously

spiralganglion — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:31:16 +0000

Article URL: https://feelingof.com/episodes/078/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45398695

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Automerge 3.0

spiralganglion — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:21:49 +0000

Article URL: https://automerge.org/blog/automerge-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44568778

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by spiralganglion in "Cloth"

spiralganglion — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:39:41 +0000

Splinter Cell, from 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20220207182149/https://gfycat.co...

New comment by spiralganglion in "Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023)"

spiralganglion — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 06:00:35 +0000

https://ivanish.ca/never/

New comment by spiralganglion in "Ink and Switch Constraint System (2023)"

spiralganglion — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:39:01 +0000

Automerge started as a research prototype and is now a widely-used substrate for building local-first apps: https://automerge.org/

Our GitHub has a boatload of experiments: https://github.com/orgs/inkandswitch/repositories

This is a fun afternoon just waiting for you: http://feelingisreality.com

Muse started as a research project and turned into an app: https://museapp.com/

Some of our essays have embedded versions of our prototypes you can play with:

* Crosscut: https://www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/

* Potluck: https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/

Alex Warth is currently working on a remake of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad: https://github.com/alexwarth/sutherland

There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.

Ghost House – software for automatic inbetweens

spiralganglion — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tedwiggin.com/MIMT.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176782

Points: 113

# Comments: 3

New comment by spiralganglion in "Ambsheets: Spreadsheets for Exploring Scenarios"

spiralganglion — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 02:46:36 +0000

We recently open sourced Inkling [1] (which is a spiritual successor to Crosscut) and the iPad Wrapper [2] app we used to prototype Crosscut, Inkling, and other projects. We're also going to share some more similarly-interesting non-essay output from our research in the near future.

[1] https://github.com/inkandswitch/inkling

[2] https://github.com/inkandswitch/wrapper

New comment by spiralganglion in "Building Bauble"

spiralganglion — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:29:57 +0000

Worked on my iPhone.

Droste’s Lair

spiralganglion — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://vezwork.github.io/drostes-lair-post/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42435099

Points: 169

# Comments: 7

New comment by spiralganglion in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

spiralganglion — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:23:12 +0000

I've felt since I was young that I'd like to choose when and how I will die. I'm perfectly comfortable with the thought. I'm in my 30s and have a lovely life and family. I'm in no rush to end things. But when I'm old and the scales tip, I'd like to be the one to decide that it's time. I might not ever get there, but I want the option.

Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

spiralganglion — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:19:19 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/itch.io/post/3lcu6h465bs2n

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727

Points: 1197

# Comments: 463

New comment by spiralganglion in "How Olympic Timing Works"

spiralganglion — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:40:35 +0000

They have a link to a source for that claim... and the source says 300 to 400 milliseconds. So whoever wrote and edited the OP article just messed this up.

New comment by spiralganglion in "Jerk"

spiralganglion — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:38:59 +0000

(Author here)

Yes that's the point. Tried it on a lark, and it created weird feelings so I leaned into it. This is my personal website, and I've been trying to make it more deeply personal lately.

Talked about it a bit in this thread: https://mastodon.social/@spiralganglion/112747815905067127

New comment by spiralganglion in "Jerk"

spiralganglion — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:30:00 +0000

> Metroidvania game where you lose abilities as you progress

This is brilliant. It solves the inherent tension of metroidvanias wanting both ever-increasing power and ever-increasing challenge. Rather than unlocking new areas, each time you lose abilities, it changes your relationship to existing areas. But the knowledge you gain — room layouts, enemy placement, hazards, short cuts, etc — becomes way more helpful when you can't just fly (perhaps literally) across the map.

Where should visual programming go?

spiralganglion — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:50:42 +0000

Article URL: https://tonsky.me/blog/diagrams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41080644

Points: 85

# Comments: 73

Pygmalion by David C. Smith

spiralganglion — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/072.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40728208

Points: 1

# Comments: 0