Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by pengaru on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:45PM (#25587153)

Neat web version, but yikes did that thing light up my laptop's fans and make FF use nearly 100% of two 2.8ghz i7 cores here. Seems a bit ridiculous considering what's going on.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by seanwilson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:11PM (#25587427)

Argh, I'll look into it because it shouldn't do that. It's using DOM + simple hardware accelerated animations intentionally (over something like canvas) and no polling to keep CPU usage down. Runs fine on Chrome on Mac.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by pengaru on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:44PM (#25587738)

Yeah well, in unaccelerated scenarios like mine that translates into software rendering on the CPU, which there seems to be a whole heck of a lot of happening despite nothing really changing on-screen.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by seanwilson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @07:33PM (#25588112)

Thanks, I'll need to check some more because the Chrome performance tab is saying 95% idle when nothing is being selected as expected for me.

Either way, I'd be keen to add a battery saver mode because it's not the kind of game I'd want to devour battery on a mobile.

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