hailpixel (u/hailpixel)

hailpixel commented on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization visualrambling.space/movi... · Posted by u/damarberlari

hailpixel · 3 days ago

I LOVE when people geek out about the most simple mathematical things*, especially discovering the animation power of the trigonometric functions... or any of mathematics underlying modern interactive stuff. It's one thing to know what they do, it's another to understand the power of that tool.

* I wrote a similar article around making "blobs" a while back: https://www.hailpixel.com/articles/generative-art-simple-mat...

hailpixel commented on Show HN: Dev atrophy test – Can you still code without AI? · Posted by u/mrborgen

hailpixel · a month ago

Always love a fun quiz, but some of the example answers are just incorrect. Eg: `document.example('example')` to select a HTML button element. Others are to rigid to allow the true breadth of correct answers.

Ya'll might want to switch from V0 to claude code.

hailpixel commented on My approach to running a link blog simonwillison.net/2024/De... · Posted by u/prawn

ssn · 8 months ago

Please share other technical setups for keeping a link blog.

Static Site Generators seem like a perfect fit.

hailpixel · 8 months ago

Simon's site runs on Django: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog, which is unsurprising as he is one of Django's co-creators.

But I agree with you, a great use case for a Next.js-esque static site.

hailpixel commented on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify 5-million-devs.netlify.co... · Posted by u/franck

iandanforth · 9 months ago

Nice! My favorite challenge was avoiding the glowing white dots along the path.

hailpixel · 9 months ago

I also went for 0% speedrun challenge.

hailpixel commented on Show HN: Autotab – Programmable AI browser for turning web tasks into APIs · Posted by u/jonasnelle

replwoacause · 9 months ago

Looks nice. Anybody else in this space? This one is on the pricier end but I’m just a single user so maybe not the target customer

hailpixel · 9 months ago

AskUI could be a solution. It's also not just in browser, but the whole desktop: https://github.com/askui/vision-agent

hailpixel commented on Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read shepherd.com/best-books/s... · Posted by u/bwb

hailpixel · 10 months ago

I love this genre, and there is such a plethora of interesting reads. I think one of the most interesting, in terms of presenting technology's role in varied societies, is A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. Great read if you are bored of the classic space opera.

hailpixel commented on Cellar Door: a quest to find the most beautiful word in English cellar-door.co.uk/... · Posted by u/ArisC

hailpixel · a year ago

In case you missed it, the current leader is `tRNA`: https://www.cellar-door.co.uk/leaderboard

Which, isn't even a word, but I enjoy the internet doing classic internet things.

Edit: It is now `no`. Amazing.

hailpixel commented on Show HN: Product Hunt for Music tracklist.it/... · Posted by u/ewhicher

hailpixel · a year ago

Amazing, history does repeat itself. One of the companies in my batch (S07) was iJigg (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ijigg), which had the 2007's version of this interface: single upvote, player, and all. It did well and then petered out as many hyper-niche apps did at that time.

Best of luck with this version!

Posted by u/hailpixel a year ago

Betting on WhatsApp justmessaged.substack.com...

hailpixel commented on Gigantic Aluminium Spiders windspider.com/gigantic-a... · Posted by u/geox

hailpixel · a year ago

You know, I like giant industrial projects and all, but based on the headline I was expecting something a little more exciting.

Anyway, neat crane idea.

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