I am designing this year's ICFP programming contest! if you've got strong opinions on what makes a good programming contest I would love to chat. Bonus points if you've done the ICFP PC before. Or if you've got ideas about making a good contest in the age of agents!

document.querySelector("paper") (this is all live in the browser)

they're calling it the strangest triple feature of all time

made my terminal explode when i close it

terminal to terminal communication prototype

made a bouncy ball that lives in my terminal and on my desktop

parseword is very very good

I made a crossword

I made yt-browse, a youtube channel search TUI Filter by date range, use regexes, order results by views/duration/date, find playlists, and ignore shorts. Everything is cached; search is instant after an initial load. it's like search, but for youtube github.com/nolenroyalty...

working on a task tracker for sisyphus (compatible with any boulder and hill)

made something i'm calling "really easy tetris"

a fun part of making an MMO that runs over ssh is that you can play inside your editor

really fun seeing snakes.run on a proper crt :)

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players ssh snakes.run to join!

I was up till 3 AM forking go's crypto library. Here's a fun lil debugging story for about why: eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...

every time i moved my cursor in my browser today

Wrote about how I like understanding code (featuring my dog playing with a balloon) eieio.games/blog/will-ai...

idea: captchas that are ~impossible for humans to solve serve them to bots that you suspect are using AI models to solve captchas. if they solve it successfully they fail the test.

unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots where you can arbitrarily set any of the dots. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal! anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille:

ssh tiny.christmas a global christmas carol in the terminal :)

last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking

You have two friends, Alice and Bob. They each lie 20% of the time. Bob flips a coin. Alice looks at it and tells you what she saw (lying 20% of the time). You make an educated guess. You're right 80% of the time. How much better can you do if Bob answers too? eieio.games/blog/two-hea...

~new newsletter about fun weird internet stuff~ every month my friend justin and I: * write down everything our friends made * bother them until they write a little blurb the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...

In SF next week. Where should I be going? Please send (or dm) recs / invites for demo nights, art/tech/games events, venues etc!

~How to run a million-board chess MMO in a single process~ An essay and video about how One Million Chessboards works: essay: eieio.games/blog/a-milli... video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF1E...

made a laser pointer on my desktop that my partner can control remotely to distract me while I work on things

installed the Chrome Developer Beta and now a little goblin keeps eating my URL bar? anyone know how to remove this

your cursor is a bow and arrow

???? if you share your work online enough someone will just show you the exact interface you should have for your next game????

your cursor is the gun from portal had to figure out how to add multiple cursors to an html textarea for this one lol

your cursor is a paddle

your cursor is an umbrella

your cursor is a bridge

oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh

this is really neat!!

A while ago I made a game (with @greg.technology) called Talk Paper Scissors. Diana runs a podcast called...Talk Paper Scissors. obviously we had to record an episode together :) www.talkpaperscissors.info/post/253-tal...

One Million Chessboards v1.1 - fresh game, no stalemates, start restricting bots * You can capture between boards (once your target has moved) * Stricter rate limits, more bot detection (wip) * Reset the board state have fun :) onemillionchessboards.com

✨ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! ✨ Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set. I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals. Let me know what you think! ❤️

the summary of CORS, CRSF, and various attack vectors in the motivations section of this proposal is really really good (and very worth reading if you're like me and have been meaning to form a more principled understanding of the problem space!)

I've shipped ~335 GB of chess data to clients so far! I ship zstd-compressed protobufs. I profiled before launch and this would be: * ~450 GB if it was compressed JSON * ~1190 GB if it was uncompressed protobufs * ~10800 GB if it was my original unoptimized uncompressed JSON

Fun fact about One Million Chessboards - I did it in one process entirely because 9 months ago a Hacker News commenter pointed out that I should have used one process for One Million Checkboxes working on my writeup now, lmk if you have specific Qs!

I'm on the verge! and with an extraordinarily kind title :) www.theverge.com/installer-ne...

I haven't had to touch the server for One Million Chessboards once since launch a first for me, kinda neat!

Live pieces with the most captures on One Million Chessboards (with their piece id) Queen: 2740 (#14799788) Pawn: 74 (#7249044) Bishop: 123 (#2079246) Promoted Pawn: 162 (#23936099) King: 26 (#28457837) Knight: 180 (#11422762) Rook: 313 (#9529088) not bad!

stalemate on one million chessboards onemillionchessboards.com#7236,4551

one day into my realtime chess MMO: * 4.1 million moves made * 650 concurrent players. we're growing!! * server still vibing TIP: zoom out, then use the skull to jump to recent captures. then double click where you see movement. easy way to find someone to fight!

my global realtime chess MMO, One Million Chessboards, passed 1 million moves 6 hours after launch! come hang out and capture some pieces :) onemillionchessboards.com

people have this urge to just fill a board with pieces on One Million Chessboards and i love it lol

I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it. moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards. that's it. Have fun! onemillionchessboards.com