Arnis allows you turn turn real-world map data into an accurate Minecraft model. Extremely cool! There are probably some good lessons in there about managing chunk data in Rust, for other projects.
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Jan 11th: The paper behind mixbox is really interesting reading - pigment mixing is hard to simulate in computers and previous techniques don't mimic how paints actually behave.
Arnis allows you turn turn real-world map data into an accurate Minecraft model. Extremely cool! There are probably some good lessons in there about managing chunk data in Rust, for other projects.
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How has it been a year already!? I've updated my 2024 reading list with the 88 books I read over the course of the year.
Highlights were Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, The Husbands by Holly Gramazio and Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Dec 17th: An interactive map that shows you locations with Wikipedia pages as you scroll around? I'm extremely jealous that I never thought of this.
Dec 17th: I missed it when it happened last year, but AWS now offers a microsecond-level global clock service that you can use for NTP/PTP. Could probably build some interesting data applications with that.
Sep 30th: If you want your webapp to paint behind the status bar at the top of an iphone, you can just add these meta tags:
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style"
content="black-translucent">
Aug 12th: I really like this guide to 3D pixel-projections for games - true isometric is almost always never used, but there are a quite a few useful variants to mix and match.
This circular tube map design from Tube Map Central is surprisingly good. Usually variations on the existing Tube Map are interesting, but worse in almost all ways - but this is really quite great.
The world's squarest country is Egypt, while the roundest is Sierra Leone.
This is the personal website of Cal Henderson, Slack co-founder & CTO.
I give occasional talks, write code and sometimes articles.
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