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Show HN: Sillage, a small contemplative game drawn after Haeckel's plates

Posted by denzen on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:55PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://sillage.denzen.online

Hi HN. Sillage (French for the wake a boat leaves behind) is a small browser game with no goal.You're a blob: hold the mouse or a finger down to swim toward it, and fast currents carry you into the next world. Creatures and backgrounds inspiration come from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur.On the creative process:I've wanted to make something like this for years, since reading Jenova...

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Re:Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:47PM (#49524514)

Using lineageos on an old samsung without any google services, I guess this would impact many "degoogled" users as well

Re:The August 17 outage, and the work ahead on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:50PM (#49379317)

Have you looked into Forgejo?

Building Synapse offline-first with Loro

Posted by denzen on Sunday July 26, 2026 @06:07AM
from the dhovart.tngl.sh dept.

https://dhovart.tngl.sh/synapse-blog/loro-offline-first/

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Re:My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:18PM (#48163435)

I hit a similar problem in an application that was performing non-unicode-aware string operations on user-submitted text in a typescript codebase. The data couldn't be processed by an external service that was expecting valid Unicode. My fix was using toWellFormed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Re:How I write software with LLMs on Monday March 16, 2026 @02:08PM (#47402567)

> Pine Town is a whimsical infinite multiplayer canvas of a meadow, where you get your own little plot of land to draw on. Most people draw… questionable content

Doesn't help that _pine_ is one way of saying penis in french

Show HN: An attempt at making a game using ReScript

Posted by denzen on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:18PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/dhovart/rescript-game

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Re:I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:27AM (#7486476)

You might want to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFIa-Mc2KSk I've been struggling with this as well at times.

Re:Standing Desk Do It Yourself (DIY) on Monday March 17, 2014 @10:36AM (#7415209)

See also this Grip Desk setup : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySEBqNAnyjk (video is by Solarized’s theme author, Ethan Schoonover).