~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

it has taken me longer to write rollback netcode for my current game than it took me to make, test, and ship any of my last 6 projects lmao

working hard on performance for my current game server and it's been cool to see how *awful* my low-level perf intuitions are! ex: i keep making things concurrent and then realizing that safe concurrency costs are high enough for me that an optimized single thread is much faster

Rigged up a thing so my kid can change the color of her bedroom using her marker set!

making a game

They weren't making me any money (very saturated market) so I've decided to open-source my feet. MIT license, do whatever you want with them.

Game jam idea: everyone starts with the same HTML form of a bank transfer screen, two hours to make it as user hostile as possible.

i give up. citi having a UI with FIFTEEN EXTRA ZEROs that you have to delete before doing any transaction is funnier than any computer joke i will ever make "yes, our UI defaults to sending quadrillions of dollars"

Urban Dead is closing next week, forever. It's not the kind of game that wins awards or is immortalised by industry bodies or community grandees. But it remains one of the most innovative, anarchic games I’ve played, so I’m remembering it here.

Thank you @itseieio.bsky.social !!!! ——>>>>> smilelikezuck.com

made a website that teaches you how to smile like mark zuckerberg (smilelikezuck.com)

wide emoji maker emoji-stretcher--maxbittker.on.websim.ai

i built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass

brought the puppy to vermont for her first time in real snow :)

Ever opened so many tabs that your browser became self-aware? This one learned how to play Pong. Blog: eieio.games/blog/running... Source: github.com/nolenroyalty...

what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs? I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...

looking for classic/iconic realtime games that prominently feature a grid or visible blocks (like tetris) i have created a new abomination and i’m trying to think of what to implement on it send ideas pls!

globAL CapSlOck is OVER ThanKS FoR PlaYING

desperately need a "i understand i'm doing insecure irresponsible things but dw they're funny so it's fine" button on my iphone right now

for a few days in 2006 nobody in high school could turn in homework and it was my fault a little story about mail rules, teenage computer mischief, and good adults~ This is on my blog eieio.games/blog/breakin... but I'll also summarize it here (are bsky threads a thing? not sure...)

chrome's new "tab slingshot" feature is pretty frustrating 😤

set out to find out why my hoover keeps cutting out, instead gained a a sense of appreciation at how people will form deep cultures over any conceivable topic

should you be more skeptical of my self-admitted keylogger than any other code a stranger gives you? I'm not so sure eieio.games/blog/be-skep...