joey @joeycato Twitter profile

Pinned Tweet

joey

4 months

📺Update: You can now toggle off the static transition sound on the older TVs if desired, by pressing the 'o' key. #myretrotvs

16

3

56

Last Seen Profiles

@favefilipina09

@NinaShuey

@dis_blackman

@olgunisterank

@chisman98_

@Cleo_Ashley459

@Olina_Live2D

@NsgmIndia

@dul_turkporno

@zinkattxck

@gazeteduvar

@stwmaniax

@dopethingexpert

@FintanClarkePix

@handa_nijisou39

@PAmmuaruna

@bokeplokalmalam

@qianKuqn

@PSekoo65409

@yadan_gera

@parksbouck14

@XEXEEZY

@posth

@pxCeMed2x65tpnw

@meinir_edwards

@witchuz

@umfrenesi

@findpinkmilk

@ManuelSantande1

@unown122012

@LivingGodsTruth

@AlqlbBtwl21574

@CoachCalArk

@aqualeonpwrb

@udin12344566

@kobenisuperfan

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Excited today to announce the official launch of My 2000's TV! This is my first major addition to the My Retro TVs side project in 7 years. Hope you enjoy!

My 2000's TV!

Go back to the 2000's via this nostalgic TV simulator and relive the original ads, music videos, movie trailers, shows and more!

00s.myretrotvs.com

22

29

153

joey

@joeycato

1 year

Today's the official launch of My50sTV, Hope you enjoy! Hard for me to believe I've been tinkering with this retro thing for almost a DECADE now. Such a fun journey. Thanks to all of you for your support over the years!

My 50's TV!

Take a trip to the 1950's with this nostalgic television simulator

50s.myretrotvs.com

29

12

129

joey

@joeycato

1 year

Making good progress on My50sTV so far ( you can expect a launch sometime next week ) Here's a sneak peek:

14

5

118

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Just launched My 60's TV! Decided to ditch the remote and make the TV more interactive ( leveraging CSS filters. ) Clicking the dials/knobs will increment as you'd expect though now you can also decrement by clicking on the left-hand side. Enjoy!

My 60's TV!

Take a groovy trip to the far out 1960's with this nostalgic television simulator

60s.myretrotvs.com

14

12

95

joey

@joeycato

6 years

The best part about ReactJS is the community behind it. This weekend I attended my first conference and met many talented passionate developers. #ReactConf2018

4

14

90

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Spent some time over these last two weeks rewriting the websites to take better advantage of modern JavaScript. [1/3]

11

5

46

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Really enjoying @bruno_simon 's threejs-journey course so far! After completing the first chapter I decided to make a small demo #threejs #creativecoding

4

3

45

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Recently I was interviewed by India Times. Here are kind and thoughtful words that @BS_0008 wrote about the MyRetroTVs project 🙂🙏

A Netflix Engineer's Love For '80s Birthed An Imitation Of Each Decade's TV Experience

Joey Cato created My Retro TVs where users can hop into a pop culture time machine to go back in the past, with eras starting from the '60s and running into the '00s. Here's more about Joey Cato's...

www.indiatimes.com

8

7

41

joey

@joeycato

2 years

It's long overdue, but I finally added a dedicated Report Video Correction button to the📺sites. This option makes it easier/faster to report corrections on the video content you're actively watching. #myretrotvs

16

2

39

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Just hit my 7-year career anniversary @ Netflix this week. It's a super honor being surrounded by amazing colleagues and learning something new from them each day

2

0

31

joey

@joeycato

1 year

I keep tapping on the X to close the Twitter app but it’s not working. Is this a known issue?

5

2

34

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Gizmodo wrote a nice article about My60sTV!

Relive the Real ‘Golden Age’ of TV With This Bonkers Web Simulation

A generous soul has added '60s shows to a catalog of over 150,000 television clips, made viewable through old TV sets.

gizmodo.com

2

3

28

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Discovered a 90’s TV during an evening neighborhood stroll

8

0

28

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Video Views - My recent #Netflix #HackDay submission. Enjoyed learning a lot more about #threejs in the process and how well it integrates with #ReactJS ( TLDR: #ReactThreeFiber is awesome! ) #3d #webGL #threejsJourney

2

3

24

joey

@joeycato

5 years

Third demo of video hack experiment ( applying border pixel effect to "Seven Nation Army" music video )

1

3

24

joey

@joeycato

1 year

Adding parallax to "Take On Me" with Meta AI's #DINOV2 + #DEPTHY

2

20

joey

@joeycato

2 years

#ChatGPT is a pretty neat way to interact with #Nostalgia

4

1

21

joey

@joeycato

1 year

📺Just released a limited-edition mug to celebrate the completion of 6 decades of MyRetroTVs

MyRetroTVs Mug (Founder's Edition)

Love the nostalgic MyRetroTVs app? You can show your support for the creator by getting your hands on an exclusive Founder's Edition mug! These unique mugs are a must-have and they're onl...

shop.myretrotvs.com

2

3

20

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Playing around with HTML5 Canvas particle effects after being inspired by the amazing code examples from Frank's Laboratory ( @code_laboratory )🧵 #creativecoding #generativeart #html5

2

3

17

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Work in progress.

2

0

16

joey

@joeycato

1 year

Giving away a free MyRetroTVs mug to the first person who can answer the following trivia question: In the two computer game scenes from the movie Big (1988), what is the final text phrase that Josh Baskin types?

MyRetroTVs Mug (Founder's Edition)

Love the nostalgic MyRetroTVs app? You can show your support for the creator by getting your hands on an exclusive Founder's Edition mug! These unique mugs are a must-have and they're onl...

shop.myretrotvs.com

5

0

14

joey

@joeycato

9 years

Finally released my first major GitHub project! #rx #rxjs #rxify

GitHub - joeycato/rxify: An RxJS library wrapper that lets you execute Rx operators directly using...

An RxJS library wrapper that lets you execute Rx operators directly using marble-diagram ASCII string arguments. - joeycato/rxify

github.com

1

5

14

joey

@joeycato

3 years

I have no idea why I made this, but it was fun:

2

0

12

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Made this AI-generated music video for a song I wrote back in 2020 ( using multiple key-framed text prompts ) #aiart #stablediffusion #deforum

"Spaceship" - Joey Cato

I created this AI-generated music video for a song I wrote back in 2020.( Created with Deforum Stable Diffusion: https://colab.research.google.com/github/def...

www.youtube.com

2

1

13

joey

@joeycato

7 months

Created an experimental ChatGPT app ( curious in what other ways AI can enhance nostalgia )

ChatGPT - Nostalgic Nerd

ELI5 with actual nostalgic childhood references you can relate to.

chatgpt.com

2

0

13

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Much of this involved embarrassingly wincing😬at 8-year old hacky code BUT it was a neat way to realize how much I've learned as a developer since. No major changes in this release but I added a bunch of small UX improvements in the process. [2/3]

2

0

13

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Finished making Bloops 3D ( 20 levels total if you want to try it out! ) #threejs #webgl #game Game link:

0

11

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Spent the weekend finishing a project I've been tinkering on for the past few months and now I'm excited to officially release it! Also added sample videos alongside multiple settings for changing the visualization. Would love to hear your feedback.

GitHub - joeycato/boundlessvideoplayer: An experimental web app that resamples a video's edge...

An experimental web app that resamples a video's edge pixels during playback and projects them outwards in 3D. - joeycato/boundlessvideoplayer

github.com

3

0

11

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Home Alone on #DeepNostalgia

0

11

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Integration Test Tweet #1

1

0

11

joey

@joeycato

3 years

The other goal of this project was to modularize the apps into a single codebase with shared components, so hopefully 🤞🤞that means it will be much easier to add more📺decades! Now I just need more free time 😀[3/3]

1

0

11

joey

@joeycato

2 years

“You merely adopted the turbulence. I was born in it, molded by it” - Air Bane

2

0

10

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Made a small 3D puzzle game recently while playing around more with ThreeJS #threejs #threejsjourney #game #gamedev

2

0

10

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Triviaverse ( an interactive title I worked on ) launches today!

Netflix’s Triviaverse is a speedy new trivia game you can play with a friend

Triviaverse could be a surprise hit over the holidays.

www.theverge.com

0

9

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Reached my first milestone on building a new iPhone app!

0

9

joey

@joeycato

4 months

#MetaAI is pretty wild. By stitching together a collection of animated prompts and adding a #SunoAI theme you can quickly generate a 1980's sitcom intro :D

3

2

10

joey

@joeycato

2 years

The Cat Burglar is now out of the launch bag! I'm delighted to have joined the interactive team that created this wonderfully nostalgic experience.

‘Cat Burglar,’ Netflix’s New Interactive Cartoon From ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘BoJack Horseman’ Produc...

Netflix's "Cat Burglar," from Charlie Brooker ("Black Mirror"), is an interactive story that's a lot of fun to play.

variety.com

0

9

joey

@joeycato

8 years

Just released my latest side project ( ) It's basically an interactive song lyric visualization app. Hope you like!

3

9

joey

@joeycato

5 years

In this episode of Seinfeld, Jerry visits the Netflix HQ for a friendly Q&A followed by a special Hack Day in which we got to pitch to him and Ted our ideas on stage 🤩

0

2

9

joey

@joeycato

5 years

A fun holiday hack I made with HTML5 Video + Canvas + CSS3D ( Projecting the border pixels of each video frame outward during playback... is there a proper name for this effect? ) Demo subject: A memorable scene from my favorite movie :) #hack #80s #nostalgia #Big @tomhanks

0

1

7

joey

@joeycato

5 years

Made more progress on the video-border-bleed hack ( optimized the draw code so it performs great at much higher resolutions ) Here’s another demo using one of my favorite Weezer songs ( running on an iPhone Xs Max browser )

0

8

joey

@joeycato

3 years

The Breakfast Club movie poster ( with #DeepNostalgia effect applied )

0

7

joey

@joeycato

3 years

My attempt at applying the #DeepNostalgia effect to The Lost Boys ( TIL it's really difficult to blend 80's hair :D )

0

1

7

joey

@joeycato

3 years

@ID_AA_Carmack "I'm sorry, Dave you shouldn't do that. And here are 27 examples from the past why that was a bad decision before." 😀

0

7

joey

@joeycato

6 years

Just finished writing a tech blog post for a recent side project I've been working on! ( Re-enacted Road Trips: Multi-Video Synchronization with FFmpeg 🎥 ) #roadtripsync

3

0

6

joey

@joeycato

1 year

@that_kidnoah No current plans but lots of folks have been asking for My10sTv

0

6

joey

@joeycato

5 years

Just one more code change!

Naz Delam

@NazDelam

5 years

Hackday at Netflix ✨〰️〰️👩🏻‍💻〰️〰️✨ @WeAreNetflix @joeycato @sumana_mohan

3

1

33

0

6

joey

@joeycato

4 years

@ID_AA_Carmack You've reminded me that I should revisit my VIC-20 User's Manual, especially the section which taught me BASIC animation :D

1

0

6

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Testing out my DJ skillz 😃🎧

0

6

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Giving a shout out to my younger brother @davidcatomsw for the noble work he does and also getting mentioned by Reader's Digest! 🏳️‍🌈

6 Ways to Be an LGBTQ Ally

Being an ally to an LGBTQ friend, family member, co-worker, acquaintance, or the population as a whole goes beyond acceptance.

www.rd.com

0

6

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Excellent course, I highly recommend to anyone who wants to get more 3D experience on web.

Bruno Simon

@bruno_simon

2 years

We did it! 20k students joined Three.js Journey 🎉 Let's celebrate with a giveaway 🎁 RT this message to get a chance to win an access to I'll draw the 20 winners on Friday at 2pm CEST 📅 By the way, something big is coming soon 💣

62

753

1K

1

0

5

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Tested out the DeepDaze text-to-image generator () with "visiting the eighties" and was not disappointed.

0

5

joey

@joeycato

2 years

@seldo SPARQL to the rescue! Here's a custom Wikidata query: and results for the 1876-1885 request:

0

1

5

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Experimenting with canvas effects and retro videos tonight. Demo:

0

5

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Ace Ventura on #DeepNostalgia

1

0

5

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Applying the boundless effect in reverse: #DoYouRemember #Sept21

0

5

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Having fun making tiled wallpaper with #stablediffusion ( Prompt: "m.c. escher, unicorns and rainbows, intricate, 4k" )

1

0

5

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Battle Kitty ( another fun title my team and I worked on ) is out today! 🐱⚔️

'Battle Kitty' Stretches the Limits of Netflix’s Interactive Tech

The animated kids series plays like a video game—and demonstrates the potential of interactive shows.

www.wired.com

1

0

5

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Stranger Things S4 launches this month and it reminds me that my earlier Stranger Games app ( ) is over 5 years old now which means I can pre-register it for kindergarten 😀 For fun I ran the numbers to see what the engagement was like then🧵

Stranger Games

Stranger Things re-imagined as a playable 1983 video game collection.

www.gorch.com

2

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Markdown links are completely backwards ( coldly-squarish brackets should instead wrap machine-friendly URLs and warmly-rounded parentheses should contain human-friendly titles ) #changemymind

0

5

joey

@joeycato

5 years

We did a thing! #netflixhackday2019

0

5

joey

@joeycato

3 years

@phoenixlassiter Someday yes hopefully. The longer you wait the more nostalgic it will be :D

0

4

joey

@joeycato

1 year

@power_the_city Thanks for your very kind words, Grace. You're very welcome!

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

When you’re barely awake and accidentally tap the Scan button ( instead of Order ) within the Starbucks mobile app

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Found a bit of inspiration during this morning’s jog

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Finished watching #DevsFX tonight, what a profoundly interesting TV show. If you’re looking for some great philosophical sci-fi, I highly recommend it. Also, huge props to @Nick_Offerman for really nailing the character!

2

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Answering the burning question on everyone's mind: What happens when you apply the #DeepNostalgia effect to classic 80's movie posters?😲(1/14)

2

1

3

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Waiting for Amazon to deliver my copy of Cyberpunk 2077

1

0

4

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Recent improvements: animation, lighting, faster movement, scoring, and a dedicated restart button

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Finally, if you'd like to learn more about creating pixel effects, Frank has a fantastic set of tutorials on his YouTube page. Highly recommend checking it out!

Franks laboratory

Creative coding experiments, generative art & game development with vanilla JavaScript & HTML canvas. No frameworks and no libraries. Every project is explained line by line as I write the code using...

www.youtube.com

0

4

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Released a new song + AI music video tonight ( more experiments with camera movement ) Improved the quality a bit as well, thanks to upscaled textures and higher frame rate. #aiart #stablediffusion #deforum

"Quest"

Created a new AI-generated music video from another song of mine.If you like the tune, here's the original version I wrote ( albeit with different instrument...

www.youtube.com

1

0

3

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Almost done with my boundless video app ( side projects are quite therapeutic during this time ) Here's a small demo to share before I release it ( should work on all devices though best experienced on a big or wide monitor ) Enjoy! #earthwindandfire

1

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

@ladyleet @meziahruby Release code into production as soon as possible and get free testing from your customers.

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Saw this hummingbird today conduct a breadth-first search

0

1

4

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Recently scanned through century-old fire insurance maps of my hometown and generated an interactive map from them. Wrote about it here: #georeference #paristexas #mapping

0

1

4

joey

@joeycato

9 years

@AtlantaBurgers Thanks so much! Happy that the 📺 is bringing you nostalgic joy :)

0

1

joey

@joeycato

1 year

@gfclark89 No plans yet but I acknowledge the interest for it. Curious, what do folks imagine a My10sTV would actually look like? Would it not just be YouTube? :D

3

0

4

joey

@joeycato

11 years

A love letter to the 80's, a new web app I made this weekend: http://t.co/qHt1OP1Su5 #my80stv Hope you enjoy!

0

4

joey

@joeycato

8 years

Just released Stranger Games (my recent Netflix Hack Day project) If you'd like to try it out:

3

1

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Streisand effect in 3...2...1...

0

4

joey

@joeycato

6 years

Recent hack day pursuit ( created an app that generates video jigsaw puzzles from playback)

1

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Having too much fun with #DeepNostalgia ( applying effect to Beetlejuice movie poster )

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Playing my favorite arcade game (Aliens) on the Retroid Pocket 2 which finally arrived!

0

4

joey

@joeycato

5 years

This may just be the most entertaining bug report I’ve read about in a long time. And it also demonstrates how high we’ve advanced up the ladder of software abstraction.

Taylor Swope

@_taylorswope

5 years

We released patch 1.2 of #TheOuterWorlds today, and it includes a fix for the dreaded "the game thinks my companions are dead" bug, which I believe I spent more time investigating than I have for any other individual bug in my career (1/18)

256

6K

20K

0

4

joey

@joeycato

3 years

Backhanded compliments are one thing but have you ever received a "fronthanded insult?" Mine was years ago shortly after I released an Indie game I had made. Someone emailed me to suggest that my "company" fire the 2D graphics artist 😬

0

4

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Welp, I was hoping to submit my app to App Store this weekend, but upon enrolling in the Apple Development program I was quickly greeted with a message that I'd have to wait at least two business days for it to be reviewed before I can proceed. Guess I'm playing video games now.

0

3

joey

@joeycato

3 years

@coleturner Congrats, Cole!

0

3

joey

@joeycato

2 years

@JemYoung Thank you for reminding me to do this :)

0

3

joey

@joeycato

4 years

@robinmaypanpan Wow, has @guycirino been campaigning for a reboot that long? :D

1

0

3

joey

@joeycato

6 years

If Pax is the Thief of Destiny, does that mean he grants you free will? 🤔 #bandersnatch

1

0

3

joey

@joeycato

2 years

1

0

3

joey

@joeycato

3 years

@eeiswerth After doing it once, I totally regretted it :) Found this nifty tip to block all of those future prompts ( they're so distracting ) :

How to Change Your Chrome Notification Settings

Fed up with pesky Chrome notifications? Learn how to optimize your Google Chrome notification settings and disable popups for good.

www.avast.com

1

0

3

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Be a Goonie, wear a mask. #gooniesneverdie

0

3

joey

@joeycato

2 years

@indigomisha You're very welcome! Glad it gave you a chance to reconnect to the past :)

0

3

joey

@joeycato

7 years

You sincerely understand the importance of Usability when you have to update all of your clocks at once #lcdblinkingnoon

0

3

joey

@joeycato

4 years

Just updated my project to replace all of the node rendering with Canvas instead of SVG and HOLY COW what a performance boost🤩What previously chugged on my older iPad is now buttery smooth. Granted I had to nix some transitions but it was worth it.

0

3

joey

@joeycato

2 years

Experimentally feeding the output into #stablediffusion as a text prompt

3

0

3