“MineCity 2000 is a program that converts SimCity 2000 cities into Minecraft (Java Edition) worlds”

https://github.com/jgosar/mine-city-2000

If you’re attending @ffconf or not, I’ve got a special little treat for you either way:

I built an ffconf Gameboy game.

That works on a real Gameboy, on an emulator AND the web.

URL (and ROM) released during @ffconf tomorrow.

Wow, so @internetarchive is launching Palm Pilot emulation soon and it turns out they have my #Diabetes app GlucoPilot up and running in the browser. I released this in 1998 and it was the first portable diabetes management app! plus charts! https://archive.org/details/palm3_glucopil

RT @jwz

As you look around for a new social media platform, I implore you, only use one that is a part of the World Wide Web.

tl;dr avoid Hive and Post.

If posts in a social media app do not have URLs be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated…

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/

“Our web design tools are holding us back”

— “we need tools that are not based on a historical subset of what’s possible, but tools that allow us to experiment with all the thing that are possible today.”

#webdesign https://vasilis.nl/nerd/our-web-design-tools-are-holding-us-back/

It finally happened:

The Force Engine has finally reached version 1.0 after 3 years of development.

Now you can play Dark Forces on modern PCs with QOL improvements, including high resolution, mouselook, 3D rendering and quicksaves.

This is the true remaster of Dark Forces.

More car hacking!

Earlier this year, we were able to remotely unlock, start, locate, flash, and honk any remotely connected Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura vehicles, completely unauthorized, knowing only the VIN number of the car.

Here’s how we found it, and how it works:

DUDE WTF https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

Now that everyone is fresh with the country (which I emigrated from recently) after the world cup, here are some funny facts about it and open source game engines.

Godot, Cocos2D and Ogre 2.0 were all originally created by Argentinians.

GOLDEN AXE DOOM

The classic side scrolling brawler reimagined in GZDooM as a First Person Hack ’n Slash!

1.0 version WILL include: -3 playable characters -unique magic attacks -Battle rush “The Duel” gamemode alongside Story mode

DEMO available here: https://www.moddb.com/games/doom-ii/downloads/golden-axe-doom-demo

Half-Life: Another Story - return to Black Mesa in this awesome DOOM total conversion mod!

Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2Sb48tIzk

Article: https://www.alphabetagamer.com/half-life-another-story-alpha-download-doom-mod/

by #gamedev lolikoli #indiedev #indiegames #gaming

https://twitter.com/Bargcelona10/status/1606084180730839043

IMPORTANTE: Mañana lanzamos un pequeño videojuego/narración interactiva sobre historias extrañas pero reales de CABA. Estuvimos varios meses trabajando en esto gracias al apoyo del programa MECENAZGO. Va a poder jugarse GRATIS a través del navegador en PC, Mac, celular, tablet.

OK let’s try this again, ordering a nothing burger from McDonalds. this time nothing else in the order.

will they cancel it? deliver an empty bag? i am doing this so you don’t have to

Esta imagen nos representa, nuestros potreros y nuestra cultura.

Argentina acaba de salir campeón del mundo. Los hijos y hermanos de los jugadores entran a la cancha y se ponen a jugar al fútbol. ¿Con una pelota? No, con una BOTELLITA DE PLÁSTICO.

Argentina, no lo entenderías.

When tech companies do well it’s because they’re smart and when they don’t it’s because mAcRoEcOnOmiCs

@jaffathecake You could write an entire slide system with new css

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2022-10-14-fully-responsive-css-slide-system/

I’m extremely on team “you do not have to” (as someone who only makes tiny websites, mostly by myself) https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1602769032427540480

Google Maps changed its URL from “https://maps [dot] google [dot] com” to “https://google [dot] com/maps”. Looks like it’s not a big deal, but when you grant the location permission in your browser you now grant it to the whole #google [dot] com domain. 🤨

#privacy #googlemaps

GIT PURR! Git Commands Explained with Cats! https://girliemac.com/blog/2017/12/26/git-purr/ @girlie_mac is the bomb

Definitely not a fan of threads.

I almost never make it past two tweets, esp for threads that are longer than 3 tweets. Most folks who write long threads follow the same writing rules (start with the hook, etc etc etc) and so all threads end up sounding the same. https://twitter.com/adambsilver/status/1596397978603819008

No one is more prepared to lose their entire online social media identity than millennials who have lost their AIM, MySpace, Google Reader, Google+ and remember the early years of Facebook. We will only return more powerful, more annoying than before.

Sergey Brin revives Google Plus team from cryogenic chamber.

“It’s time.”

A relevant reminder for anybody interested in mobility innovation.

A silver lining to the craziness in the past weeks is that you should realize that you are as capable, or more capable, than the heroes and leaders of the industries we are a part of.

a good website is when “john” from support pops up in the corner with a big smile asking how your shopping experience is going, and then when your cursor is about to leave the window a fullscreen message appears with a special offer begging you to stay

color picker is just a 1x1 screenshot tool

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

I got fed up writing FFmpeg commands. Its unintuitive, and can get ugly and complicated quickly

A couple of months ago, I built this GUI to help me write complex ffmpeg filtergraphs that we have been using internally and decided to launch today.

http://ffmpeg.guide

Me working on side projects:

Works for 15 minutes

“I deserve a break”

Takes a 45 minute break

It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity https://twitter.com/kane/status/1587540685392990208

✊🏻 https://twitter.com/muanchiou/status/1587420644777418754

How to date a recording using background electrical noise https://robertheaton.com/enf/

In college, I did this project where you had to keep nodding in order to get through commercials. https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1585589721971003398

Read more comics on Webtoon! http://safelyendangered.com/webtoon

📝 People in a room with sticky notes looks like work. Somebody doing the dishes does not. And yet, I think many of us feel that some of our most insightful work comes doing something that doesn’t look like work.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/what-work-looks-like/

I got a box of rainbow Nerds and noticed as I was eating that there wasn’t a lot of pink, so I started sorting them, and I’m not even done yet, and this is an outrage, the ratio is terrible

PARENTS: please carefully inspect your kids’ Halloween candy! We found Doom running inside this Milky Way bar.

Candy of Doom - Do not eat if it’s turing complete

#adafruit #halloween #candy #doom

Secondly, as someone who has been writing HTML/CSS/JS for more than 20 years, it’s obvious to me what has been proven over and over again: bet on the core foundations of the web, and don’t try to one-up them. Extend them (think PostCSS etc.) and get the most out of them, but ..

I’m sorry but “non-fungible” will always mean “impossible to turn into a mushroom” to me

I think designers underestimate just how good, usable, inclusive, & sometimes even refreshingly delightful “boring” design is.

• Visible labels & instructions.
• Link underlines!
• Good text contrast.
• Lists!
• Links! (to separate pages vs. modal dialogs)

Usable > aesthetic.

“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.” @timberners_lee

“However, in America there are fewer and fewer Third Places that don’t cost money” - 2007 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-developer-theory-of-the-third-place

https://pudymody.netlify.app/blog/2022-10-04-regex-doom/

I love this 🌿 https://twitter.com/canneo2103145/status/1577159976266584066

A new #c64 operating system in 2022 on Beyoncé’s internet?!? https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRmTPbCg/

Listen, if Google releases a product that isn’t branded Search, Ads, or Gmail, there’s a 95% chance it’s gone within 3 years.

Sometimes when I’m bored I open a new @CodePen and start with a single element in the page.

This time I started with an input range and I made a slingshot from it to burst a bunch of inputs with @greensock ✨🎆 Completely pointless but it kept me busy 💁‍♂️

https://codepen.io/Mamboleoo/full/LYmOyEG

👉🏻 “TDungeon is a small adventure game that runs in the Typescript type system”

🔗 https://github.com/cassiozen/TDungeon

Now do DOOM!

A raíz de la filtración de GTA VI, un montón de estudios (Guerrilla, Naughty, Remedy, Game Kitchen, etc) están mostrando sus juegos sin gráficos acabados bajo la irónica frase:

“Graphics are the first thing finished in a video game”

HILO Recopilatorio VA 🧵

1. TLOU: https://twitter.com/NaughtyNDC/status/1572259854764449794

Ever wondered how a QR code works?
No, me neither but it’s low-key fascinating.

(Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

That feeling after a deadline you worked your a$$ off for “Now what? What do I do with myself now?”

VPNs, Proxies and Malware scanners offering you an “always free” version are like the Mafia neighbourhood thug offering you to “protect” your shop.

In a somewhat hasty reactionary move, I bought a domain name: https://justforfunnoreally.dev/

I don’t have big plans, and I might not ever finish it, but I just had to channel my snark somewhere….

If you’re wondering which new HTML elements are needed, you can find out for yourself. Install the NoScript browser extension to start browsing the web with JavaScript disabled by default, and then observe which things break.

For example, this should not require JavaScript:

God, I hate reCAPTCHA’s!

When are those gonna go extinct?!

NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel. At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that’d fall off by less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom http://ow.ly/rhmO30o4k7G

“Creatures” is a game from 1996 that pioneered Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 🤖🧠

This short documentary shows how it managed to give life to dozens of small, furry creatures in just 1000 artificial neurons or so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6DzI-krUQ&ab_channel=AlanZucconi

I can’t believe we spent 20 years making desktop software work well then just decided, “no choice but to make it all shitty forever in a web browser, oh well.”

@FullTimeLustful Menos de un minutos duro esto de verdad

sslkfdhfg I cannot deal with video players without a progress bar, tiktok’s influence is absolutely cancerous

The creativity of some people on the internet is incredible

blogged a thing 🤷 https://dbushell.com/2022/08/23/let-me-type-my-password/

@davidwalshblog https://www.zhenghao.io/posts/await-vs-promise

Every CEO pissing and moaning about unions.

Every time a dev or pseudo-dev builds a home-grown app for exactly what they need and no more (sans data tracking, external ownership, lack of control), the end-user programming spirits glow brighter ✨

See also, Robin Sloan’s home cooked app: https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ https://twitter.com/jonasdowney/status/1561028050908741634

my toxic trait is that I 100% believe that a bundler is not a baseline requirement when building a professional web site

happy monday, everyone

I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already. Code, currently Linux only: https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller

Only because no one asked, here’s Death Metal Clyde. 🔊🆙️

🎥: https://instagram.com/clyde_thebasset

Emulating a C64 1541 Floppy disk drive with a @Raspberry_Pi. AMAZING https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRfFngcX/

Not gonna lie I kind miss the olden days where I’d code up a sick index.html file and drag it into the root folder with Cyberduck/FileZilla.

One year I went to Defcon and left an old laptop out with “Do your worst” written on it.

I cam back to it a few hours later and it hadn’t even been touched.

…Till I booted it up the next day and glitter spewed out of the fans on the back.

Here’s our first video from our new series with Raymond Chen, @ChenCravat.

We asked him to tell us about the mystery wherein some music would crash a laptop!!??

Let websites framebust out of native apps http://www.holovaty.com/writing/framebust-native-apps/

💥 New Post: Instagram & Facebook tracks everything you do on any website in their in-app browser

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

First glance at Parallaxian’s level 2, showing lots of non-standard colours on the C64 + the new vert parallax effect, expanded to 16 px of up + down travel in the foreground (the other layers follow suit in a 8:4:2:1 ratio).

#C64 #GameDev #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #IndieDev

@codepo8 Since i’ve read this that i’m hoping for a per-site setting

https://www.bram.us/2022/05/25/dark-mode-toggles-should-be-a-browser-feature/

A woman wrote 206 interconnected Chinese Wikipedia articles since 2019 with false accounts of medieval Russian history, in one of the largest hoaxes on the site (Rachel Cheung/VICE) https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia

This case, where Facebook turned over chats of a Nebraska woman charged with giving her then-underaged daughter abortion pills, is exactly the kind that experts have warned we’d see in a post-Roe world. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-turned-chat-messages-mother-daughter-now-charged-abortion-rcna42185

This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761 http://www.paulosyibelo.com/2021/04/this-man-thought-opening-txt-file-is.html

My BBS is now running on a Macintosh Plus https://jcs.org/2022/07/15/kludge

The World “Excel” championships are on espn2 right now just by the way.

@simonw @mwseibel A big part of the problem is that social networks, with a big helping hand from Google itself, killed the Web. The closing of Google Reader was a signal of what was to come. There’s no way today to do something like PageRank, because nobody links to or curates content anymore.

@rialjorge @NetflixLAT Sería una noticia excelente. Yo y un grupo de colegas hace 2 años hicimos un tributo en formato Animación Tradicional que se puede ver en YT como “60 segundos de oscuridad” aquí el link https://youtu.be/xVB21JBYvy8

We all talk about how infinitely scrolling websites are often bad for user experience… but we never talk about how it makes the footer feel.

So I made this @CodePen to help shine a light on the footer’s never-ending sorrow. 😢

https://codepen.io/ste-vg/full/PoQgvBK

the true decentralized web is just having a nice personal site

I’m feeling very philosophical with all the social media changes lately. I feel like videos take up so much of our time and focus, and with all of the apps prioritizing them so much, I feel less and less interested in watching/participating to… “own my focus” more, in a way.

Mix and match Emoji! https://emoji.supply/kitchen/

We should start naming heatwaves after fossil fuel companies.

Hello.

New post: When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/12/folktale

Self portrait #livemidiart

I’m dead… https://imgur.com/EuQKlq9

One of the craziest transitions I’ve ever seen.

so gross https://twitter.com/schneierblog/status/1549062702009421824

Holy crap this is wonderful

This is even funnier with context:

The game’s hardest difficulty level is “Impossible,” and if you choose it Lou Reed stops you on the street, murders you, and explains that impossible doesn’t mean “very hard,” impossible is eating the sun. The game becomes literally impossible. https://twitter.com/JokermenPodcast/status/1545778826294071298

Esta foto la saqué hace 9 años.

En ese entonces había 5 sistemas operativos todavía “con futuro” luego de que ya varios estaban muriendo o habían muerto ya.

En pantalla y en orden: iOS, BlackBerry 10, FirefoxOS, Windows Phone y Android.

technology design peaked here