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May 2025

Kaleidoscopico

Anonymous
Fri 2-May-2025 00:26
As a former demo coder/enthousiast i really like this experiment. I never found similar thrills like the adventure of getting graphic tricks done in Aztec C/assembly on my Amiga. Electronics comes close, but not close enough!
Anonymous
Fri 2-May-2025 08:18
Someone reverse engineered a bit of the music format to play all the channels separately

https://github.com/kasamikona/kaleidoscopico-channels
barelyarealdude
Dominic Schultr
Tue 6-May-2025 15:27
your work never fails to amaze me!
i appreciate the technical write-up. seems like Kaleidoscopico is a callback to Craft (especially with that part where you show the music waveforms like an oscilloscope :))

A Mind Is Born

semiversus
Günther Jena
Sun 18-May-2025 19:21
There are two videos I stop by every month or so on Youtube: DuckTales, The Moon on Chipophone and A Mind Is Born. Two amazing talented people have made two amazing wonderful pieces of art. And today I realized - It's just one person!
Anonymous
Wed 21-May-2025 17:19
Imagine your computer turning on at 2am and starts playing this. I would think it was some kind of message from a higher being.

Kaleidoscopico

maxon
Manu Järvinen
Wed 21-May-2025 21:35

maxon wrote:

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The children’s book project sounds really cool. You may want to check out Sebastian Lagues “Exploring How Computers Work” video also. If you don’t know that already.

Thank you Anonymous (Mon 28-Apr-2025)! Yes, I'm familiar with that, superb stuff!

Also, I got some soldering equipment and I will probably order some components and Pico 2 very soon among other things (Like a couple of RVPCs 1e/each) - My distant hope is to manage to get this demo run and then fiddle something of my own. My fiddlings would be very primitive stuff, that is, but it's nice to know what is possible with the board from running Kaleidoscopico on my own display (if I ever get it working with my skills). Cheers, all of you!

Nine and Kaleidoscopico on streaming platforms

Anonymous
Sun 25-May-2025 21:36
Nice soundtracks I love them

A case against syntax highlighting

Anonymous
Tue 27-May-2025 17:36
This article totally miss the point.
There is good syntax highlighting, and there is bad syntax highlighting.
If I had infinite free time like the author, I might actually write an article about bad vs good.

"infinite free time like the author" Very snarky.

Most great software was written without syntax highlighting. Thompson wrote Unix in three weeks -- with a line-based editor. Acme and sam don't have it either. Indenting suffices; de Raadt uses mg, which lacks syntax highlighting. As does uEmacs Linus Torvalds uses. Kernighan said he uses sam, and if he cannot, he uses vi (though he did not specify which clone), sometimes resorting to ed(1)!

I think it is just a habit. People got used to it. I spent most time in a monochrome terminal.

It is not necessary since, as shown above, talented people do not need it and most modern code is not on par with what the Thompsons and Kernighans of the world wrote. (Dennis Ritchie used acme, as a screenshot on anders.unix.se shows; NetBSD's der Mouse [Mike Parker] uses a modified Goslin emacs. The list goes on -- I've already won.)

Larghetto from Chopin's 2nd Piano Concerto

Anonymous
Tue 27-May-2025 17:46
Is it your performance on the piano?

Look at him you think he cannot play this piano??

Yeah! He looks rad and knows his stuff. Swedes are some of the most talented people on the planet -- too bad they die out and are replaced by immigrants from the third world. Were I not a Christian fearing eternal damnation, I'd kill myself IMMEDIATELY!

This site looks pretty neat, has a minimalist touch to it. Were I not depressed and always on the verge of suicide, it would make my day for sure.

Vim code

Anonymous
Tue 27-May-2025 17:53
You really should get out more often.
He is just extraordinarily intelligent ;) Great work.

He certainly is, though this is just a subjective statement. More objective would be his IQ or, even better, how many sigmas above the mean he is. See t3x.org for more information on how truly smart people suffer in the world (text is t3x.org/files/gap.pdf) Also has an article as PDF published in Triple Nine Societies vidya mag about two people -- one man, one woman -- suffering from having a three+ sigma IQ, thinking about suicide on a regular basis. Nothing against this fellow -- it's just that our world is now at the point where every invention just makes the world uglier and more vulgar. We live because we were born, I would end my life were I not a Christian. (See also Vox Day's work, who is a Christian with a 150 IQ, as well as Chris Langan's work, who has an IQ of around 210 [sic]). Not sure what IQ hack.org/mc -- another Swede -- has, but he is not that much of a reader, instead busy tweaking his emacs).