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TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
I'm trying to combine WebKit and Node.js into a new kind of terminal, with an emphasis on rich display and web/network orientation.
Steven Wittens (Acko.net)
A blog about random hacks, graphics and design, math and other ephemera.
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Visit acko.net → RSS feedOn Hacker News May 2011 – Aug 2026
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The Pixel Factory
"I think a lot of mathematics is really about how you understand things in your head. It's people that did mathematics, we're not just general purpose machines, we're people. We see things, we feel things, we think of things. A lot of what I have done in my mathematical career has had to do with finding new ways to…
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI
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MathBox 2
Notes will appear here. Please view in Chrome or Firefox. Chrome is glitchy, Firefox is stuttery. Work in progress. :/
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0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML
A new design for Acko.net, fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML at sixty frames per second.
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Tools for thought: graphical algebra and Fourier analysis
" I think a lot of mathematics is really about how you understand things in your head. […]
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal
A tale of numbers that like to turn: a different look at complex numbers and the strange things they do.
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Making Love to Webkit
If the world is going to end in 2012, Acko.net will at least go out in style: I've redesigned.
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Get in zoomer, we're saving React
Looking back, and forward
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Shadow DOM
Why HTML/CSS is broken and how to fix it.
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On Asm.js
Just a shiny demo or the future of browser computing?
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal
A tale of numbers that like to turn: a different look at complex numbers and the strange things they do.
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The Cargo Cult of Game Mechanics
On the existential crisis in gaming and the role of game design.
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Headless React
Doing React-like things without React.
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Sub-pixel distance transform
High quality font rendering for WebGPU
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MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
PowerPoint must die.
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Use.GPU Goes Trad
Old is new again
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The GPU Banana Stand
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
Improving on a timeless recipe
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Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams
Solve all your shader problems with this one weird trick.
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Making MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math with Three.js and WebGL
Presentation-quality math with Three.js and WebGL.
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Stable Fiddusion: Frequency-domain blue noise generator
Frequency-domain blue noise generator
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Storms and Teacups
Observations on gender, feminism and harrassment.