Chuck

made something i'm calling "really easy tetris"

there's no better dopamine than people using the thing you made

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Sprites on the Web • Josh W. Comeau In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this...

✨ I just published a new blog post about a nifty lil’ animation technique: sprites!

Sprites are used all the time in video games, but they’re less common on the web. We do have the tools to manage it in CSS, but there’s a gotcha.

In this post, I share some of the cool use cases I’ve found:

color-coded thermal image of a dog

I am currently enjoying this image (infrared_dog.jpg) I found on Wikipedia.

Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States YouTube video by Olympics

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

Oooh, bookmarked! I knew procrastinating on my idea would pay off...

build: enable Temporal by default by richardlau · Pull Request #61806 · nodejs/node Enabling Temporal support requires cargo and rustc, which are new build toolchain requirements. Add a --v8-disable-temporal-support option to configure.py to explicitly opt-out of Temporal support ...

It's nearly time for Node.js

github.com/nodejs/node/...

Surprised reddit parses the trailing period as part of a url at all tbh

It feels so damn good to be back home

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Portrait of James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, clothed in black robes and posed in front of a tapestry curtain. Art Affirmations for the new year.

Eight #affirmations from Getty artworks. 👇

Which mantra are you claiming for the year ahead?

Sunrise over San Francisco from this morning

The Golden gate Bridge against a fading twilight sky

Got a nice long exposure of Da Bridge tonight

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵

#heliophysics #aurora

okay, PORTLAND in particular, here is the deal:

- the moon is almost completely new.
- the sky is probably going to be completely clear.
- geomagnetic storms are inherently unpredictable, but this could be even bigger than the 2024 event

this confluence of events is spectacularly rare here.

Did a lil astro tonight. Quite pleased with the reflections in the second pic

Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

Excerpt from Magnum. The text is by Anderson: "“A couple of days into our journey, the boat began to sink. We were doomed and we knew it. We started saying goodbye to one another. Strangely, it was quite calm on the boat. There was not much to do except resign oneself to the inevitability of it all. Up to that point, I had not taken many pictures. Everyone on the boat knew I was a photographer, but it somehow had not felt right. It’s difficult to explain. But as the boat sank, David, the Haitian whom I had followed on this journey, said to me, ‘Chris, you’d better start making pictures. We only have an hour to live.’ And so, without much thought, I began making pictures. We were saved at the last moment by a US coast guard cutter that happened upon us, but that’s another story. Much later on, back home safe, I reflected on this question: why make pictures that no one will ever see? The only explanation for me was that the act of photographing had more to do with the explaining of the world to myself than explaining something to someone else. The pictures were about communicating something about my experience, not about reporting literal information. This would be the single most transformative moment of my photographic life.”"

The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.

He had this to say about the experience:

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

I've been feeling this way for a while. I don't think the authoring experience is the hard part. The trouble is I don't know how to make the publishing step easier for an audience that isn't comfortable with git or working in the CLI, short of a hosted saas platform

Looking up at Okayama castle against a blue sky - a tree stands in the foreground

A glimmering gold Shachihoko on the roof of Okayama Castle viewed through the thin slats of a window on the floor above.

Bright lights shine down on a collection of cacti growing in an island of dirt in an underground pedestrian area. In the background, bathroom signs and vending machines.

A footbridge arched over a body of water in Okayama Korakuen

I just got back from a delightful two week trip to Japan. I decided to only pack 3 rolls of film, thinking I'd get more once I got there, but I actually only ended up using two rolls total. I shot one of them during our day in Okayama. These are all from that single Cinestill 50D roll.

Hakone Open Air Museum on Kodak Gold These are all from the single roll I put through my Hasselblad 500C when I went last week. My hit rate on this trip has been insane

I put these and 6 more from that roll in this gallery on @grain.social. That's 10 whole bangers on a roll of 12 total. Probably my best hit rate ever grain.social/profile/chuc...

Lookup up the inside of the colorful glass mosaic walls of Gabriel Loire's "Symphonic Sculpture". Its spiral staircase fills the left of the frame.

A view looking through the end of a rounded rectangular tunnel. Outside the tunnel, people miss about under a tree

Picasso's "The Jester" photographed from behind. In the blurred background: a person in a red jacket leans down to observe the bust's front.

A man in sitting on a painters scaffold works on a large black abstract sculpture on a lawn. It can't be seen what the sculpture is, or what the man is doing.

Last week I visited the Hakone Open Air Museum, and I just scanned the photos tonight. These are Kodak Gold - I only used a single roll of film that day but I am really really pleased with almost every photo I took

Starting a petition to get them to actually enforce the NO WAITING signs in the arrivals roadway at PDX