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Dwitter is 10 years old this winter! If anyone is interested in some backstory, I dug up an old interview: https://medium.com/windows-developer/dwitter-dares-you-to-co....
Of course, the real magic of dwitter is the lovely community: https://discord.gg/emHe6cP
Arc Roam is my holiday project this Christmas. I wanted to create an online, browser-based, mobile-playable "destilled" alternative to the old classic PC game Elastomania, (and it's unofficial multiplayer mod Elma Online). I used to play Elma religiously, but it stopped working on Mac (via Wine) last year, so hopefully I now have a way of getting my fix again! Now all I need is someone to complete against
The tech stack is pretty simple: - React / canvas (2d) frontend - express / ws backend - Fully ephemeral, no storage (to save money)
Cool! Not to self-promote (no monetization or anything), but in case any one finds it helpful, I made something similar for myself to practice becoming more accurate with Wacom-style tablet pens: https://tabletpractice.arkt.is/
Since we are sharing variants in different languages, here's Norwegian: https://www.fiveletters.xyz/no/five
That's for the stats feature that shows you e.g. your most guessed word, etc. It's all calculatated client-side. In fact, there is no backend at all!
It uses the scrabble dictionary (SOWPODS, as you mention) -- if it is a playable five-letter word in scrabble, then it is playable here.
Technology-wise, I wanted to try out two things that I hadn't tried before for this project.
One was to use Expo to release on web and mobile at the same time. I've used React Native quite a bit in a professional capacity, so I wanted to check out the Expo landscape. I discovered that the web part (react native web) didn't quite deliver on what I was looking for, so I scrapped it and ported to Vite/react-ts and dropped native completely.
The other was to see if I could find a low-friction way of setting up subscriptions for a static web frontend with no first party backend. That is the reason why there is a premium subscription tier for a small weekend game like this. Turns out that this was pretty straight forward with Gumroad! In the end, I was pretty happy with the way the flow turned out (except that Apple Pay isn't supported without stepping out of the flow and heading to Gumroad directly).
I came across https://bert.org/2021/11/24/the-best-starting-word-in-wordle... on HN the other day, and decided to do my own take on the concept as a little weekend project.
In a similar vein, here are my dweets: https://beta.dwitter.net/u/sigveseb/top
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 1000+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 1000+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 900+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 600+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 600+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Hyre | Full-stack engineer | Full-time | Oslo, Norway | https://www.hyre.no
Can you imagine a future where nobody has to own a car? Hyre is on-demand car sharing in Norway with 500+ publicly available vehicles and rapidly growing. At our core is our hassle-free customer experience. Everything is fully automated - Just download the app, unlock a vehicle via Bluetooth, and start driving.
Now we are doubling our engineering team with 4 new engineers in order to grow faster and seize new verticals.
Come work on software with a very real physical component and help shape the cities of the future.
Tech stack includes Django, Typescript, React, React Native, Postgres, Redis, AWS, and car connectivity via Bluetooth and in-vehicle hardware.
Read more (in Norwegian): https://www.hyre.no/karriere/utvikler/
Some demoscene-related tracks:
Ninjadev - No Invitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxLCvjuW9c4
Ninjadev - Pinky Frinky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSGCKu2H7mI
Ninjadev - What are you syncing about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU5POqHdeA
Looks like this thread is all about sharing our own related local browser-based PDF tools. Here’s mine: https://pdftotext.github.io
Some context:
"Revision is the world's biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries!
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak Revision will be a livestream-only event this year."
The three last compos are about to start:
- PC 8K Intro (8KB maximum executable size)
- Amiga Demo
- PC Demo
Three.js has an (old) css renderer too https://threejs.org/examples/#css3d_molecules
I guess an answer would be to call it "old", given its placement next to "new" (and the fact that it lets you browse old stories).
I hadn't learned about arrow functions yet when it was written in 2015 :)
In a perfect world, everything is generated from ASCII diagram sources: https://github.com/sigvef/sigvehtml .
Was not expecting this on HN! Check out github.com/ninjadev/re for the latest demo made with nin. We (authors) are all at revision right now, so questions might not get answered right away.
In a perfect world, everything is generated from ASCII: https://github.com/sigvef/sigvehtml .
We use the Web Audio API, HTML5 Canvas (with PIXI.js) and MediaRecorder to render and play-back generative music videos on the client side. However, it turns out that MediaRecorder can only work in real time, so unless you have a reasonably beefy computer, your video render might suffer from frame drops and random hangups. In an effort to eliminate these frame drops we moved the same js rendering code that we use on the frontend into a headlessly run Firefox instance wrapped in some additional node.js logic for controlling logic flow. That required splitting the rendering process into an offline pre-processing step for FFT analysis on the audio stream, a separate rendering job for rendering the frames themselves, then using ffmpeg to combine video frames, audio data and remuxing timestamps to ensure proper playback speeds.
We launched Music Video Dispenser on HN roughly two months ago (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308820 ). At the time we rendered videos on the client using the brand new MediaRecorder web api. Now we've moved rendering to the cloud using MediaRecorder in a headless Firefox instance instead so we can guarantee perfect 60fps full hd videos without frame drops!
I also tried to hack together WebRTC headlessly a while ago actually! I looked at GStreamer and Kurento, but ended up using Janus instead. Anyway, turns out you can use Xvfb, essentially a "fake screen", to headlessly run GUI programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb , which is what we're doing with Firefox.
Firefox is one of those projects that just keeps on giving, and it's all thanks to the hard work put in by all the contributors. It's easy to forget that sometimes. We use Firefox headlessly to render videos at https://www.musicvideodispenser.com , a task that certainly wasn't the initial intended use-case for that browser, but it still works, and we have the Firefox team to thank for that!
We've gone full circle! This thing started as a stand-alone HTML page for dweets with ability to embed the code in the URL: http://arkt.is/t (hover to show editor). GitHub: https://github.com/sigvef/arktis-tweet-demo . Here it is with the same dweet embedded: http://arkt.is/t/Yy53aWR0aHw9MDtmb3Iobj0yMDA7bi09MS82NDt4LmZ... .
Incidentally, this is where the "dwitter" name came from: "demos" as in the demoscene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene) and twitter.
One trick you learn as a dweeter is to write all for-loops as "fr" instead of "for", and then only adding the last "o" when you feel confident that the loop won't accidentally go on forever!