<3, but truly people definitely don't understand how hard it is to do something that long with this much love and care... I guess if they did there'd be more, but nope, very few amazing newsletters like this!
I’m old.
Hot damn this is beautiful!
I built a procedural medieval island map generator using Wave Function Collapse on hex grids. 4,100 cells, 900 possible states per cell, 60fps on mobile. Wrote up the whole process with lessons learned. Links below 👇 #threejs #webgpu
RIP, the json formatter extension I had went closed source a month or so back, today I found it was injecting random shopping trackers. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/json-...
I think my official old man grumpy era is beginning with seeing what settlers of catan looks like now with the latest edition... IT WAS FINE, IT HAD CHARACTER! wtf is this shit
I've written a post containing some tips for giving better presentations!
None of these tips can replace great content, but they will help you start strong and keep the energy going all the way through to the applause at the end.
philna.sh/blog/2026/03...
Do you have any more tips to share?
its always
❯ whoami
but never
❯ howami
A mild interface optioning different river speeds, wind speeds, sound buttons.
Lil buggy but for some behind the curtains fun, can type "sos" once you start, and fiddle with a few of the different noise vars, sounds etc. Was really trying to be all text, but as I guess was obvious from the start performance would be an instant block.
Can't emphasize how much I appreciate it! World getting busy & and any love from the "we make things because we enjoy making things" peeps is the most important love to me <3
<3 ty!
I've been kinda working on building a less "be patient, and i will force you" and more "as you continue a story will unfold" version for this. But as it goes, always good to get a version out :)
image saying Underscore has unlimited recursion in _.flatten and _.isEqual, potential for DoS attack
They were the best of times, they were the blurst of times.
🎶 I take a chip 🎶
🎵 And I eat it 🎵
this is hilarious.
You SAID we could style <select> now DAD.
Theres a new ipad today, but I will literally never change from my 2014 mini, that has Heroes of might and magic 3 on it which is now impossible to get on ipad, and also can do all the books/videos/dumb items.
A meme format where someone with a childs toy put's all the "blocks" intended for their shape into the one largest hole. Meanwhile a product person is watching and getting increasingly distressed.
ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online
I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players
ssh snakes.run to join!
Hmmm, it's intentional, but for me it transitions between the font weights for me smoothly :/
Was more of a cow to me, but dragon sounds cooler
Been doing a lil personal branding + animation work - codepen.io/tholman/full...
In a wave of nostalgia/recognition for how fast things are moving lately, gathered together a collection of "vintage" sites, that have unwaveringly stayed online for decades ... and of course I had to make a whole thing of it thevintageweb.com
There's a daft punk lyric mix up here, I just cant find it.
microsite using the arena api for showcasing the diagrams in my 6+ years old research channel and quotes from readings.
sites.laura.computer/001/
A CSS-driven Mahjong Solitaire.
Built a CSS Mahjong over the weekend: voxjong.com
Powered by my relentless quest to conquer the 3D DOM.
Built a “3D” sphere (SVG) to show RYB transformations.
Over-iterated in @codepen.io
10% optimization, 90% procrastination.
codepen.io/meodai/full/...
A sad day for rectangles
Had an email come in last month about a bug in this oldie, github.com/tholman/rast... ... probably my biggest distance (14 years) between commits. Proud of how far I've come.
I’ve worked and continue to work in both sides of this, and we’ve all seen the numbers tilt to the permanent contractor side where we can apply permanent pressure to the entity vs the person force. No person made morged (lol) just a shit inhumane “why hire someone” system.
Vendors v Passion? I’ve been thinking about the morged Microsoft stuff (it’s funny), but honestly is it will be insta blamed on a vendor, which it probably is, but lay completely in the realm of “yeah see we fixed it, fired them, we will do better”. Further justifying vendors to the top.
