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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,666 posts.
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Stylized Water Shader
💦 A huge, step-by-step tutorial on how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph. This works with Unity's Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Includes colors, foam, refraction, reflections, caustics and Gerstner waves.
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Creating Isometric RPG Game Backgrounds
Using Stable Diffusion techniques to create 2D game environments
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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
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The Camera-Shy Hoodie
A DIY wearable for avoiding recognition on IR security cameras.
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Eduard: Swiss-Style Relief Shading for Maps Using Machine Learning
We first published our paper on relief shading using neural networks towards the start of October 2020, and now almost 2 years later, we are very excited to share Eduard .
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Mermaid Cheat Sheet
Cheat Sheet for Mermaid.
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My favourite 3 lines of CSS
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Cut the Cutesy Errors
If your app has just ruined my day, I need help, not humour.
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Modern Mono
I’ve just finished setting up a new Mac (14" MBP, M2 Pro, 32G, 4T). It dawned on me that most of my really intense interactions with this thing involve looking at “monospace” (i.e. fixed-width) text; in Emacs where I write this blog, in my IDE, and in my terminal. The ones that came with the machine by default are…
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Treasure trove of mechanical animations (2015)
Whenever I watch videos of how things are made, I marvel at the cleverness of the manufacturing machines. Retired engineer Duc Thang Nguyen has created over 170
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Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
Are there any other hardcoded folder names in macOS? Where would I even start looking?
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Will Wright on designing user interfaces to simulation games (1996)
A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…
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“Pigeon Neck” Illusion (2014)
An interactive demonstration of the “Pigeon Neck” Illusion
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A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer (2016)
Audioscope: What you see is what you hear.
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The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
And how to treat it
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Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)
When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? I recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’...
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Conditional CSS
CSS is condtional in many ways. In this article, I will go over a few CSS features that we use every day, and show you how conditional they are.
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How to draw ideas
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for…
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The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)
Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.
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Don't use Tailwind for a design system (2021)
My opinion about why isn't a great idea to use tailwind for your design system
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Architecture diagrams should be code
For the past few years I’ve been the most senior developer on my teams in Atlassian, in both position (Principal Engineer) and time (almost 9 years ) - this means I usually take on the responsibility of managing our software architecture.
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3D in CSS
Notes about creative coding on the Web.
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The beauty of CGI and simple design
Finding someone still singing CGIs praises is surprising, and some alliteration.
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