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__grob on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:38PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/groverburger/instance
I used GameMaker 8.1 a ton in late elementary and middle school, and GML was the first programming language I wrote. I still think it's a fun engine to use because it has so many batteries included. So I built an open-source reimplementation of it in Rust which I'm calling Instance. It opens existing .gmk and .gm81 projects and runs them on Windows, macOS and in the browser, with a more...
Glad you enjoyed the technical postmortem!
I agree with what you said, but I think it's reductive for a few reasons:
- It was (and still is) amazing to me that GPT Image 2.0 was this good at making a coherent manga page in one shot.
- This project was focused mainly on the animation pipeline, not the manga page content.
- As with all things AI, it is up to the user's creative direction to make the output good. I did not give much creative direction at all to the example manga page, thus the AI catchphrases. With some guidance, this seems to be a very promising way to get your manga ideas onto "paper" quickly if you desire.
Posted by
__grob on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:56AM
from the groverburger.xyz dept.
Neat! Glad it's a cognate for cool words haha :)
Very actively developing this project, so hopefully it'll become a suitable replacement relatively soon. Please open GitHub issues or PRs if you have specific requests, happy to help.
Haha glad it brought back fond memories! Grob is just the nickname of my username GroverBurger. Fun coincidence.
Yep, magic wand already exists with contiguous/global toggle and tolerance slider. : )
Posted by
__grob on Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:41PM
from the github.com dept.
It still amazes me that so many people can see LLMs writing code as anything less than a miracle in computing...
This is sick, loved the 2swap video on this. Happy to see more content visualizing lambda calculus and Tromp lambda diagrams.
This is so cool to see. Saw tons of Waymo in LA/Santa Monica area when I was there in October. Very excited to see them expand basically all through SoCal!
Posted by
__grob on Sunday November 09, 2025 @11:37AM
from the algorithmsbook.com dept.
Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.
I didn't get around to that because my monitor is not amazingly wide (mainly using a laptop :P). Thanks for the feedback though, I may add that in the future.
Posted by
__grob on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:15AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://groverburger.github.io/simple-markdown-editor/
Made a super simple vanilla JS/HTML5 markdown editor/viewer recently, just wanted the basics and especially to be able to hit CTRL-P and print the resulting HTML nicely or save to a PDF.This supports MathJax, and automatically saves to local storage so you can use it as a notes app or quickly pick up where you left off. Hope you also find it useful!
This is a fantastic release, been looking forward to --trim since the 2024 JuliaCon presentation. All of the other features look like fantastic QoL additions too - especially redefinition of structs and the introduction of apps.
Congrats Julia team!
Posted by
__grob on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:50AM
from the srb2.org dept.
Posted by
__grob on Monday September 22, 2025 @04:08PM
from the nasa.gov dept.
This is so exciting! Been waiting for this for years, very interested to see what people can do with this
Posted by
__grob on Friday September 12, 2025 @03:31PM
from the github.com dept.
Cool, I had a very similar idea recently, awesome to see it live! Congrats!
I know Berkeley Mono when I see it! My go-to terminal font for coming up on three years. Automatically gets me pumped about this conference.
Using Devin's DeepWiki for the docs page gives me an uneasy feeling. I would rather have real docs.
I use Perplexity as my daily driver and it seems to be pretty good at piecing together the path forward from documentation as it has that built-in web search when you ask a question. Hopefully LLMs go more in that direction and less in the SO copy-paste direction, sidestepping the ouroboros issue.
I would love to know as well. I also have problems with the LLM coding agents when it comes to lesser-known languages like Julia. Has anybody solved this yet?