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Re:Show HN: Whittle – A Shrinking Word Game on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:46AM (#44821343)
Love the concept and execution! After finishing today’s I am going backwards to play the archive :)

If anyone else likes simple but fun word games, I made one for iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1248738929

Re:Life-like particle system on Friday May 10, 2024 @04:49PM (#40323656)
If you like particles, you may enjoy this generative art project I made last year: https://www.artblocks.io/project/424
Nice use of smooth union SDFs :)

I did a similar thing in 3D here: https://generator.artblocks.io/62000470

Re:Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:52PM (#38755163)
hi victor, good to see you here! hope you're well :)
Re:From Shader to Metaball on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:01PM (#30223758)
Nice, I did a generative art project last year exploring similar ideas: https://www.artblocks.io/project/62
JMBL: Delightful jumbled word puzzles (iOS) - http://bit.ly/jmblgame

I love word games, especially Scrabble. I've always wanted a game that is like a rack of Scrabble tiles I can swipe around to try to make a word.

Re:Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:57PM (#24426396)
This is great! Will you be supporting the different type of inboxes e.g. "Important first"?
Re:Boids on Saturday March 28, 2020 @09:21AM (#22710978)
I also have an implementation [0] that shows the paths of the boids. Based on the parameters, some very interesting patterns emerge!

[0] http://jzlabs.com/

Re:Ask HN: What did you build in 2019? on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:08PM (#21916237)
Re:Google Photos – Can I get out? on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:47PM (#9631520)
Not at the moment, but in the overflow menu there is an option to "Remove Results" where you can remove false positives from a set of results.
Re:Show HN: Scrambled – An iOS Game in HTML5 on Monday April 29, 2013 @02:04PM (#5627705)
Looks and feels great! Makes me reconsider using HTML5 for a similar word game I've been working on.
Re:Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think) on Wednesday April 03, 2013 @02:43AM (#5484646)
Very clever! Some feedback:

* Text can get truncated sometimes: http://f.cl.ly/items/1G3L1F2D3P032T2F3m3E/Screen%20Shot%2020... * Is it possible to change the actual menu bar color? The overlay kind of makes it hard to make out the other items in the menu bar. Maybe an opacity setting would help.

Re:Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress on Friday November 23, 2012 @03:48PM (#4823620)
Nice work!

Small bug: "Q" is getting recognized as "O" on a few boards I've tested.

No app for that (yet).
Thanks! I have a couple other apps available:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/led-light-for-iphone-4-free/i... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/good-word-free-words-friends/...

I worked with the same designer for these apps. I've noticed great design and UX really helps!

I ended up doing the processing server side - performance on older devices was shockingly slow.
It's using OpenCV's template matching function. I tried to use other OCR libraries but OpenCV ended up yielding the most accurate results.
Made this over a handful of nights and weekends. To use, take a screenshot of the Draw Something drawing you are trying to guess and import it into the app. That's all!
Re:JSHint, A JavaScript Code Quality Tool on Thursday February 16, 2012 @12:04PM (#3599574)
TextMate bundle is quite nice as well: http://fgnass.posterous.com/jslint-in-textmate
Re:Rround on Thursday September 15, 2011 @03:04AM (#2999142)
Very nice. Reminds me of what http://ban.jo/ is doing on mobile.
Re:App.net on Thursday July 14, 2011 @08:42PM (#2765833)
Looks great. Is there any way for analytics ignore clicks from the creator? Just got an inflated click count while testing out different templates.
Re:Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @12:19PM (#2755304)
Works well with this Chrome proxy switcher: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caehdcpeofiiigpdhb...
Looks very similar to http://www.sinuousgame.com/
Re:Textify: Convert images to HTML text on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @08:06PM (#2582271)
Love it.

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