Max Glenister

Some great points! 👍👍

Why is VR more restrictive than my 27” monitor? Doesn’t that defeat the entire point?

Being able to manipulate and configure the environment in a way that is comfortable and bespoke to a user is probably the best end goal. Once we've gotten over the novelty of the new interaction paradigms, maybe this will become the norm.

We should be looking to VR headsets as an alternative to standard displays. The default for an experience should not be a full body workout.

One of the most limiting factors for me as a healthy type-1 diabetic is having a blood sugar crash after 30 minutes of using my full body as a controller in a game.

https://www.owlbynight.com/blog/missing-the-point-of-vr/

Monocraft A programming font based on the typeface used in Minecraft

https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft

DOOM as you didn't realise you needed it!

Voxel DOOM: A mod that replaces 2d characters and props from Doom with fully 3d voxel-based models.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-voxel-project

These are all amazing game UI/UX resources.

The best collection of the most beautiful, exceptional and inspiring video game interfaces and screenshots.

https://videogameinterfaces.com

Explore a collection of video games interfaces, screenshots, and clips. Take a look at all the fragments that make up a video game, and find inspiration for your designs.

https://interfaceingame.com

The Game UI Database was created as a free resource for UI/UX Designers in the games industry. It was built to aid in the discovery of new inspiration, and to provide a fast and efficient way of searching for reference materials.

https://www.gameuidatabase.com

Following on from the essential games user reading list; this post is an introduction to some of the fantastic video resources available online. Ranging from 101 introductions to in-depth guides, ‘day in the life’ and more – video resources are a useful for learning about UX and games user research (GUR) alongside books, articles, and classes.

https://gamesuserresearch.com/2022/02/01/essential-videos-and-talks-for-new-games-user-researchers/

Open Source Game Clones

Open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one place

https://osgameclones.com

Making a Video of a Single Window

#ffmpeg #x11

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/making_a_video_of_a_single_window.html

PHONK is a coding playground for new and old Android devices.

Create scripts rapidly from your phone or using the remote Web Editor on your computer using Javascript. The API is simple and extensive. GUI, audio, graphics, Bluetooth BLE, Arduino, OSC, MIDI, and much more.

https://phonk.app https://github.com/victordiaz/PHONK

Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones

https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/

Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme [using] modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZuf0LIU-2A

So, here’s a bit of a mystery: Why does TeamViewer – the popular remote desktop program – install a font it doesn’t use on your computer?

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/teamviewer-font-privacy.html

Where Browsers Come From The economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.

https://bkardell.com/blog/WhereBrowsersComeFrom.html

One of many default browser styles that I always change!

All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px? Where does that come from?

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2022/07/04/body-margin-8px/

Nifty.

MacintoshPi is a small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active Internet connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/jaromaz/MacintoshPi https://jm.iq.pl/macintoshpi-mac-os-7-8-and-9-for-raspberry-pi/

Defensive CSS Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

https://defensivecss.dev

A small tool (rsspls) to generate RSS feeds from web pages that lack them. It runs on BSD, Linux, macOS, and more.

https://github.com/wezm/rsspls

🙈 I do not need more tech. I do not need more tech!

Pocket Reform is a 7 inch mini laptop from MNT Research. We condensed the best features of MNT Reform into a smaller, lighter, and more affordable device while adding some new exciting details.

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt-pocket-reform.html

What would a Chromium-only Web look like?

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2022/06/22/chromium-only

Computing in Crip Time

https://logicmag.io/clouds/computing-in-crip-time/

🥳 though I can't help feeling uncomfortable by how smooth Clarus is.

Did you know that with macOS Ventura, Clarus the Dogcow has at long last returned home?

https://shadowfacts.net/2022/clarus/

Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)

https://blog.kylekukshtel.com/game-design-mimetics

For my own reference, to find/replace the linked mastodon post for a post on Known in MySQL:

update entities set contents = replace(contents, 'old-post-id', 'new-post-id');

I might want to add the mastodon link to the post edit UI to be a bit more robust...

Love the pixel art on this. The technical side of things is super interesting too!

https://atrailtale.com

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31701026

New episodes of Airquotes the Podcast Airquotes from the May 2022 #RemoteHack are up!

https://remotehack.space/live/

Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll https://prototypr.io/post/hamburger-footers-in-headers-infinite-scroll-techniques

10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP https://webdevguild.com/blog/10-things-http/