bryanbraun

The post talks a bit about this:

In a perfect world, when your legitimately good content isn’t being surfaced by Google, it’s a failure on their part, and their problem to solve, not yours. In practice, it is your problem and you have to do a bunch of work to help them see that their current assessment of your domain name is no longer accurate.

You're right, the fault lies with the search engines, but in practice it sure feels like the domain itself is tainted somehow.

OP here, and yes, I've been getting that same message for musicbox.fun. I thought it just needed some time but I requested a fresh index two weeks ago, and nothing seems to have changed. :/

Yep, more details here: https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

Yeah, just look at how balanced the design looks. Either they programmed that flight path or the pilot spent a lot of time on an etch-a-sketch growing up.

This reminds me of Code-a-piller. It's a toy designed for pre-schoolers, so definitely not a full language, but it's physical and lets you sequence basic instructions in an intuitive way. More here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYEKD1Befg8

I've never made the Flash connection but I totally agree.

On my end, I try not to worry too much on the gaming vs coding thing. I'd rather have my kids playing games on Scratch then some other place where they can't view source.

I figure, if they have some basic skills and know what's possible, they'll eventually get curious and poke around. I think that's more true for some kids then others though (even in my own house).

I wonder if there's a way to smooth out the transition into modding "real" games that teenagers are already playing with their friends. I'll bet it would be pretty motivating to have that kind of power in these online spaces where a bunch of your friends hang out.

Minecraft and Roblox support mods written in Java and Lua respectively but it's a pretty big leap from Scratch to Minecraft mods.

I was recently discovered a dedicated editor for Minecraft modding (https://bridge-core.app) and that seems pretty cool. A lot more could be done in this space though.

Oh wow, great find! Gonna put this on the calendar.

That "Hacking apps with Makey Makey & Scratch" session looks particularly interesting.

Andrew Healey just took a pass at this and did a great write-up about it here:

https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes

It looks decent but dithering would be nice so I created an issue for it here: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/issues/20

Good callout... I updated the post to link this one.

Also the new CSS accent-color property.

My coworker hacked together a demo that's pretty wild: https://twitter.com/nathanAlan/status/1436145205019922440

Good catch. I posted an issue: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/issues/16

This is giving me ideas. Thanks for sharing!

Very clever!

It kind of reminds me of this pattern I saw that someone made out of range sliders (though not as animated): https://codepen.io/xdesro/pen/dyRNqqY

This is what I used for testing... it you try it with a bunch of different videos: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/video-tes...

I wrote up some notes about it here: https://github.com/bryanbraun/checkboxland/tree/master/src#p...

In short: only updating when needed, minimizing the number of DOM queries, and avoiding costly CSS layouts.

Yeah, the boxes are bit brighter by default in Safari, so that's the browser I tend to use for screenshots and video.

pretty accurate tbh

There's a better webcam demo that's kind of buried but fun to play with here: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/webcam-te...

Some background: a little while ago I built a library called "Checkboxland" at the Recurse Center for rendering stuff into a checkbox grid. I recently made an update that lets it render arbitrary images and video. The video feature supports HTML MediaStream, which is what powers the webcam demo.

That's a good callout. I just updated it to add more detail there.

Agreed, just trying to keep the tutorial simple for now. My other web-animation/education project (https://sparkbox.github.io/bouncy-ball) uses requestAnimationFrame more heavily.

Now that I think of it, it might be worth adding an asterisk and footnote about requestAnimationFrame to the post.

Haha, yeah I discovered this after I wrote it. Probably worth going back and updating.