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If you get a kick out of 3D renderings of cells and molecules, you're gonna have a field day with the work done at https://random42.com/. PSA: I started working there as a 3D artist but now lead the interactive department. You'd be surprised at how much a good art direction really makes a difference in scientific visualization. Real-time graphics advanced considerably in the last couple years but it's always a challenge to transport that nice, smooth pre-rendered look over to mobile devices and the web at 60 frames per second (90 on virtual reality headsets, to boot...)

Programming Fonts 4 years ago

I'm coding on a 1080p screen and I still very much prefer pixel-perfect fonts - Terminus (https://files.ax86.net/terminus-ttf/) has been my font of choice, with proggy clean being a close second (use it for terminal panels and such). I see the site has a filter toggle to show those but with modern browser forcing anti-aliasing on all text, that's pretty uselesas.

On a related note, I noticed that there are a few fonts which seems to ignore system-wide or browser-wide antialiasing settings - one example would be the "MS Gothic" font, visible on this site: https://fountainofdreams.net/ where all text is crisp as hell. Why is this?

Same benefits that any tool with a higher level of abstraction might have over its lower-level ancestors - less verbosity, and faster / easier ways to achieve certain things (in this case, creating simple text-based websites) while keeping the complexity under the bonnet (you'd have to re-implement the multi-page logic using the CSS :target selector when using regular html if you want the same functionality as my tool).

Looks good! I like the atmospheric halo around the planet when you zoom out being dependant on the light direction and the angle you're looking at the planet from.

I've tried to get a grasp of how it's working on the 3D side by having a look at the github sourcecode, but seems like it's all managed by the "sceneview" module from the ArcGIS software as opposed to a custom implementation, is it?

This looks great, congrats! For those already using Trading212 in EU / UK, I've built a few tools that try and accomplish a similar thing using their pie features:

• etf4u (https://github.com/leoncvlt/etf4u) scrapes equities mutual funds and mix and match your custom indexes

• trading212-pie-sync (https://github.com/leoncvlt/trading212-pie-sync) takes the information from the tool above (or ay external source, really) and automatically updates the pie's allocation (which would take a long time if done manually)

No love for iron skillets? I've had some pretty good results cooking pizzas in a home settings with it. It sounds weird but it gets decently close the the quality of a stone oven, something to do with the heat conductivity of cast iron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXAW2GseICs

You cook it on the hob for a few minutes to cook the bottom, constantly shuffling the skillet round to get that random charring, then a few more minutes in a pre-heated oven as close to the broiler as possible.

Great for deep dish pizza as well, if you're into that.

Haxe 4.2 5 years ago

My introduction to Haxe was Haxeflixel (https://haxeflixel.com/), an Haxe game development library inspired by flixel (http://flixel.org/), an older AS3-based library which was pretty known in the late 00's in the indie games community.

As the top comment mentioned, I was particularly impressed by the ease of cross-platform development in an age where bigger tools like Unity were still picking up steam. Coming from Game Maker, Haxeflixel felt like the natural step forward. I enjoyed it so much I wrote a book about it: https://discover-haxeflixel.com/

The people behind it launched a fairly successful fundraiser a few years ago so I'm happy the main developer and contributors got something back for their open-source efforts. As far as I know the library is stable - I just about updated the book a few months ago to re-rewrite references to the Flash (RIP) and move people towards the html5 exporter instead.

I still think that in an age of 10GBs+ AAA game development framewords, Haxe and Haxefixel still have a place for your typical 2D / Pixel Art-ish arcade game, although more ambitious and successful games have definitely been made, like Defender's Quest (http://www.defendersquest.com/) from Lars Doucet's, a huge fan of the framework.

All right, let's say you know absolutely nothing about the world of microcontrollers but you think this looks cool and cheap. What webpages or resources would you recommend to get started and learn more? Do you first to need to get into electronics and circuits? But before that, get a foundation on how electricity works? And even before that, get a good grasp on how to create the universe?

How do I play sounds with this? I see no jack for speakers or headphones. I assume one could have sound over HDMI but monitors with built-in speakers are not very common.

Nice work - seems like more and more people are using Notion to publish their own little websites. There are a few custom solutions that attempt to fix the problems that the author outlined, such as custom URLs and styling:

- https://super.so/

- https://fruitionsite.com/

- https://www.notion.so/Hosting-Potion-Fast-custom-domains-for...

I also built my own solution which takes a different approach: https://github.com/leoncvlt/loconotion - it caches the Notion page as a static site - admittedly you lose the capability of "syncing" sites instantly but is also makes the site snappier and more responsive as it removes a lot of bloat.

I met the same problems when trying to publish an app with purchasable subscriptions on the store. Rejected at first, then I removed all mentions of the subscription in the app and after pointing this out to the review team, it got approved. The whole experience left me very frustrated.

Recently I pulled the app off the store altogether because I can't be asked to deal with this things on every update.

I feel like a viable alternative would be to push for, and educate the end users about progressive web apps. But then again, that might just be about moving the monopoly from the app stores to the browser vendors, as in the end it's them who have the last word about PWA compatibility. If I'm not wrong lately Safari already made some changes to the storage policy that undermines PWA capabilities.

Hi all, this was this weekend's little project I made to take a break from some other bigger stuff.

Basically it takes a youtube playlist and wraps it around a nicer streaming page - good to leave on the monitor at parties, or to send to friends and such.

On the home page, just paste the youtube link of a video contained in the playlist. Or you can build the link yourself: https://playlistradio.live/?&list={playlist_id}

Some examples:

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PL8F6B0753B2CCA128 / A classic jazz playlist, the default example on the site

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PLVHGe9JLVncHBqqcT9Xc7P9l_... / some good future funk

- https://playlistradio.live/?&list=PLD61626F6813F6C5F / The GOAT soundtrack