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Brian Jordan

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game and web developer sharing prototypes exploring realtime, multiplayer, computer art, AI coding

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typical drawing sounds
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webgpu mini dunemaker
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with WebGPU you can run llama3 8b on a website in Chrome at 30 tokens per second fully local/offline with model cached in browser
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@marcelsegond make it a jello mold
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@jimmygunawanapp @McFunkypants shh just keep seeding the torrent
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@anxieteacup @visakanv Someone's gotta reverse-Wikipedia him at a con
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just for today you can make fish with sand on
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Here is Sean Hannity, apparently living in an alternate universe, talking about "President" Hillary Clinton. These people have lost it. 😂
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frontend backend
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@jsngr that ui element viscerally sold the whole realtime touch concept in a single half-second gif
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this multiplayer coding chat prototype suddenly became super fun with release of Claude Sonnet 3.5 - made oauth logins work (still haven't tested with anyone!!) - works best w/ p5 / threejs / music apps rn - dies after 4 sketches - wanted excuse to make this cool video:
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@ID_AA_Carmack @StillSalty624 Dang that's almost a whole Unity game installation
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Here is Sean Hannity, apparently living in an alternate universe, talking about "President" Hillary Clinton. These people have lost it. 😂
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I made a mistake writing webgpu but it looks kinda awesome
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@EricWollberg @Sam__Cash 🚨 Unlicensed TV Detected 🚨
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Wait, you can just run any docker image in the browser?
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Mechanical binary counter from Reddit, brilliant idea!
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@ID_AA_Carmack I remember being delighted as a kid to discover I could yell into my headphones to act as a crappy microphone
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Margaret Hamilton who lead software development for Apollo 11 awarded Medal of Freedom today.
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@deepfates oh no this works everywhere
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@molly0xFFF i should go to bed I have to get up for a wave function collapsing session at 8am
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@natfriedman incredible
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In the project management world, they call this @MattShea -Driven Development
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code potluck - buy some code for everyone to enjoy made w @partykit_io @AnthropicAI @p5xjs
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@yacineMTB @nearcyan works at NVDA, doesn't trust human service providers he interviews to advise what to do with $29mm, asks Reddit instead of ChatGPT so early
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webgpu lit circles
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🎵 Tone.js has entered the chat
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@waxpancake @rjurney algorithmically-generated phone cases considered harmful
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@ID_AA_Carmack > Rebels identified a 7 hour maintenance window of imperial power usage monitoring. >> A successful training in that short a window? Sounds impossible, even for a computer. > It's not impossible. I used to fine-tune Alpacas with LoRA in my 4090 back home, they're not much
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@TylerGlaiel 20% - writing the whole game 80% - guess and check on two float values
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Did You Know™: You can make rich condensed config tables using just the Unity inspector? #unity3d #unitytips
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Great talk by @codinghorror on developing Discourse: “Learning vs. Discussion”
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@kentcdodds @eggheadio no gif before has so perfectly summed up the experience of building on top of a framework
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@pmarca @VoiceDreamApp is great for listening to essays. Used for @paulg essays, Breaking Smart, LessWrong seqs
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OK is temporarily in mountains mode Z to toggle sand, E to erase - singleplayer only - your computer will heat up
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@cassidoo @reubenbond @notdetails "Detective Cassidoo, that commit straight to production was the last straw. Hand in your badge and clicky clacky"
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gonna start calling LLMs Word Shaders
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@yacineMTB it's very suspicious honestly
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@paulg It really seemed for a bit like they'd completely ceded the "dev laptop" market. Then they fixed the keyboard and used M1 for a low end Air that outperformed prior generations' Pro compilation performance
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@WangComputer @adammamawala @nytimes @mikiebarb Now, when you say ____, does that mean [implication]? Mike Schmidt: Yes. And it’s even more terrifying.
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the real next js is writing webgpu shaders/wasm workers to serve and render your web site (and by "website" I mean real-time interactive synth'd audio/60fps video technicolor dream portal not LaTeX w blue links & patchy support for a few binary types) possible now / closer to
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(8x timelapse) practicing with the gravity particle laser brush
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@cassidoo @reubenbond @notdetails dang that keyboard sounds like it requires a license and background check
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just for today you can paint mountains at
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@emollick ah yes, the universe's laziest asteroid mining technique: fishing with your gravitational mass
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another perfectly good engineer doomed to a lifetime of seeking rare sands 🫡
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totally accurate and flawless water simulator (if any of you falling sand people wanna chat I'd love to pick your brains)
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Super cool — the classic falling sand web playground Sandspiel now has a place to post and play creations!
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@kurtkemple Revert revert
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@WhyNotArtDump new tiktok split screen template just dropped
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5 years
Holy cow, love @glitch and @twilio 😍 in less than 45 minutes I was able to make a tool that will SMS me when Steam reviews come in that may require customer support assistance ✨ I remember when setting up my package manager would take that long, let alone deployment!
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goofin around with an obnoxious number of @threejs DataTexture layers (my computer is melting)
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TODAY - I launched an AI webapp built over the weekend! It's the first webapp I've worked on my parents actually found really useful 🙊 🧞‍♂️ Gift Genie AI: Get gift ideas from a quick giftee description using AI ✨ Rip through your holiday gift list fast!
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more particles put to music 🎵
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@deepfates never had a choice 😢
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@sahir2k Algorithm and data structure fancam compilations
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extremely unwieldy method for drawing shapes
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@_abi_ Alternatively you can use groq and get a result in 3 frames at over 900 tokens per second 😆 open source models are wild
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webgpu big dunemaker
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2025 AI jobs - vibe assurance - computer psychologist - simulation surveyor
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@sama catastrophization is the key to building an audience of anxious people
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@FreyaHolmer can it do this kind
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@poncle_vampire @dayofthedevs never buying another video game no need
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this is honestly an amazing product tweet
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why the hell do we have so many features
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I'm a design engineer (I write websim urls)
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Woohoo! tfw you forget you mentioned the cool toy you wanted to your s.o., but they remembered 🙌 @rwaldron @reconbot
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Such a fun moment today. 😊 Teaching a remote class pilot of a new middle school AI curriculum, I mentioned I co-developed an indie game called Clone Drone in the Danger Zone. Two students flipped, "YOU WORKED ON CLONE DRONE??", "I love that game!!" I am still beaming lol
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@sama Save/view history
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tbh I'm so tired of these AI bros and their computers that talk and provide free private therapy and help with homework and nutrition and exercise planning and learning things you're interested in with a patient tutor and let you code anything and create any image or video or
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some days I reopen chrome and like what the hell was I making
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rel=nofollow is how webpages subtweet
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@0xC0DE6502 Obsessed with 2 color landscapes
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webgpu mini dunemaker
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@lisatomic5 it was like a lemonade stand and people would come by like "i need an invention" and he's like "sure here's a new kind of refrigerator that'll be $1"
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@tldraw wartime tldraw
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@FrameworkPuter yessss try falling sand / game of life
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We'll come to discover the known universe is just a rectangle in someone's gradio ui
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Gaussian splats are now natively supported in @Gradio !
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Lu ( @todepond ): hey how's experimenting with gpu-accelerated falling sand going? me: webgpu's haunted Lu: what? me: *loading malware analysis toolkit to boot VM and starting up sandboxed browser* webgpu's haunted
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coding has started to feel transcendent with claude sonnet 3.5, just one-shotting features every couple of minutes computing is getting good
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lens diffraction rendering (set to 🎵)
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when I say we need "Dingboard but for writing" I mean treating words / meanings / styles like this. Paint with an emotional valence roller, slice words in half, expand / contract notions or mush them together like Dingboard's object snipe tool does — pre-digest the material more
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picking apart the threads
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@jamonholmgren @jarredsumner a customer experience focused attitude in dev tooling I'll be damned
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put together some code snippets for the real-time AI rendering brave - stream a web canvas (threejs/shadertoy/etc.) into LCM i2i frames (~10fps ~100ms input lag) has @fal_ai_data realtime socket api, used @threejs for e.g.
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siick just learned a component of this phenomenon is known as a "holographic boundary" & there is a theory space and its properties holographically emerge from a lower dimensional holographic boundary
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oscillating particles from inside an event-horizon-like circle appear like volumetric 3D renders
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