@edzitron.com cool episode on vibe coding (which I enjoy calling "vile coding") but as a professional prototypist : no, it's ALSO bad for prototyping! People often think of prototypes as low effort run once piece of code (as Charlie Meyer said) ... but that's the "easy" part of prototyping. The...

Tried out expo.dev today for a little hacking project. Really digging the Expo Go app, that's pretty neat.

Here's a little WebXR/LLM experiment, inspired by two talks at @frontmania.bsky.social about "Built-in AI" (by @rowdy.codes) and "A11y and AI" (by Elga de Klerk). The concept is a narrator that can explain what the user is seeing, using Gemini Nano on the device itself. #WebXR #accessibility

Oh man, just discovered that the madmen who are still modding X-Wing Alliance have added support for an active cockpit that you control via VR Controllers, similar to VTOL VR. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX4q...

I gave a talk last week involving RSS Feeds and was genuinely surprised to learn that no one in the audience was using a RSS reader daily. In general, I dislike "Am I the only one-" questions, but: who else goes through RSS feeds every day?

I started building a LLM experiment with Python, to see how development would differ from JS. So far, Gradio and Jupyter notebooks are winning me over. Excellent tools to test features during development and I haven't found any Node equivalents yet.

Backlog.MD is easily my favorite new tool to use for my personal projects. I've tried using self-hosted services like Planka, but having all the tasks stored inside the repo as markdown files makes it so much easier to manage.

I dug up my old Samsung 360 Gear camera for an upcoming wedding. To my surprise, it still works, albeit with some custom apps. I kinda forgot how neat 360 Photography can be in just capturing an entire moment.

... that's it. lost all faith in AI. Was a fun little hype thing, but ready to move on now.

And back in the Netherlands. Have to give another shout-out to @cityjsconf.bsky.social for giving me a good excuse to take the train to London, explore the city for a day, and getting so inspired that I'm now sleep deprived from hacking away last night. Hoping to do it again next year.

@thisisjofrank.bsky.social Just wanted to quickly message that I really enjoyed your talk. I've been wanting to have a code editor in a self-hosted environment and your talk gave me inspiration on the steps I should take next. I may have missed the link, but is the slide deck available?

So the main thing I'm getting from #CityJSLondon so far, LLM-wise, is that I've been doing way too much manually, whereas I could've used LangChainJS and MCP. Much to experiment with in the coming days.

@kentcdodds.com While it would require additional hardware, I'd wager we can do the holographic stuff with XR hardware

And off we go at London @cityjsconf.bsky.social. Had a great day walking through the city yesterday, now onto Javascript

In Tirol launches Monday at @officialgdc.bsky.social sponsored by @viverse.com! Flee the storm o’er surreal, expressionist manor grounds on the outskirts of Salzburg, 1914 ⛈️

This has been a long time coming--excited to announce that Immersive Web Emulator 2.0 (the #WebXR browser extension, not the JS runtime) preview is available NOW! Tap into the full power of IWER + DevUI, now in the extension format you know and love. Details & link below 👇

So first impressions are, unfortunately, very buggy. I really like the design. Just for development, it would make for an excellent headset, especially with being able to rotate the display so easily.

Have to admit that I had written this off, so was happily surprised when it arrived this morning. Expectations aren't too high, but I wouldn't mind having a headset specifically for development.

To my complete and utter surprise, there is a VR game based on Foundation(the novels, not the TV show). It's easily one of my favorite sci-fi series, I just hadn't expected to ever see a game released about it, let alone in VR. First impressions over the weekend were good. Very Telltale-esque.

My first little #LLM powered project. * It retrieves the last 50 items from my RSS reader * Next, llama-3:3B is used to create a summary of the article. * The result is then converted to audio using piper. * All done on self-hosted hardware. Perfect to listen to while walking the dogs.

Let’s build interactive @threejs.org User Interfaces 🫰 Uses react-three/handle, react-three/xr, and react-three/uikit - vanilla versions are available🍦 Works on any device inside and outside #WebXR Compose <uikit> with <handle> to control sizes, positions, rotations (Link in 🧵)

Took me a good five years, but finally underway to FOSDEM again. Will only be able to go on Saturday, but looking forward to it.

Got to try the Vision Pro today. While I couldn't see everything properly due to not having brought my actual VR glasses, I will admit that I was impressed with what I saw. In particular with the hands. Was delighted to see that an old cardboard app of mine worked on it without any issue. 🥳

Very sorry to hear about David Lynch's passing. When I started watching old movies during the lockdown, none captivated me as much as his.

http://localhost:4200... Now, that's an address I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

Aw crap. I purposefully left my Quest 3 alone during the holidays when I read the reports about them getting bricked during an update. Just tried them on again to start testing something, and there's nothing there. That sucks. There was already a solution for it, wasn't there?

Did some NestJS coding in the evening, and now I have a script that will summarize the unread items from my RSS reader and turn the result into an audio file, using Azure's Text-to-Speech. Absolutely perfect for listening to while taking the dogs out for a stroll.

Added a Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to my home lab for some AI tinkering. Pretty slick hardware, I'm impressed with what it can do on such a small device with so little power. Was already chatting with it this morning during my commute on how to setup an audio project I intend to use it for.

Your App Should Have Been A Website (And Probably Your Game Too) rogueengine.io/blog/your-ap... #webdev #threejs #programming

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Dit jaar een aangepaste Adventskalender: we hebben 12 Days Of Christmas! 🎅 Van Eerste Kerstdag tot Drie Koningen hebben we elke dag een cadeautje 🎁 voor jullie klaar staan in de vorm van een blog! We trappen af met: WebXR - The React Way!

First time I was at the Webxr meetup. Only in a virtual ones can you be chatting about PWAs in a cozy room one moment, and then fire at each other with arrows the next. Had a great time. Will try to be at the next one.

Learned during the WebXR Meetup that PICO lets WebXR PWAs be installed straight from the browser: developer.picoxr.com/document/web... Makes me seriously happy to see it in action, and I'm hoping that other platforms(Quest, Android XR, etc) will follow suit.

It occurs to me, after reading posts getting it spectacularly wrong, that there are a lot of misconceptions over how game studios organize and, in particular, who makes the actual decisions about what ends up in your game. Much of it is by folks who don't *try* to get it... but not all, surely. 1/🧵

2024 will be the year of self-hosting for me. I got a NUC with ProxMox installed and started hosting open-source services. From running my home with HA, to FreshRSS to remain up-to-date, to Affine for journaling. And there's the fun stuff like backups. It's a seriously addictive hobby.

Kinda curious about this one as well

Unfortunately, I promised myself that I would only focus on one hobby project, but I was already playing around with another idea over the weekend. Unfortunately, the experiments went far quicker than expected and I could already start doing some prototyping in VR.

Recorded some footage of my Nethack VR project. My main focus is to keep it as close to the original, but did end up adding attack animations for clarity. Would love feedback on how it looks and feels. Is it clear what I'm going for? Does it look right? And would you expect audio?

Was genuinely thinking this morning of creating a few pages on itch.io for some of my projects. Then this is the first item on my RSS feed

So I picked up Angular again a while back to revise my old site, and have also been working on a NestJS project. I have to admit that I'm kinda missing the clear, opinionated structure they offer.

Are there any good #WebXR powered Augmented Reality apps you could recommend? My general go-to(and one I often use myself) is size.link, but I'm curious if there are more out there.

Post a ship that's neither Star Wars nor Star Trek

Being a gamer in your 30s means you get all the games you always wanted but finish maybe 3 of them and replay your favorite ones over and over

Right, time to get a bit out of my bubble. Just ordered a ticket for the Immersive Tech Week in Rotterdam on Wednesday. Anyone else on my timeline happen to be going?

Most meta conversation I had awhile back: "What's that term again where you solve something by talking to an anim-..., ah yes, rubber duck"

So for one #WebXR project that I have in mind, I'd need a full body avatar for the user. I don't want anything too complex, mostly moving the arms and hands. I really don't know where to begin with that. Anyone have any keywords or guides I could look into? #ThreeJS

why is .vr still not available as a TLD? How do we make this happen?

Here's the first one I'm rounding off. It's the original Rogue, but in VR, ascii graphics and all. Personal challenge here is building it in pure vanilla Javascript. My expectations are that I can't see people playing this for a long time, but my aim is to get some smiles at least. #webxr #rogue

A reintroduction is in order: I'm Ruben, freelance Web/XR Developer. I kinda miss having to share some of the things I've been tinkering on, so hoping to get back into that. I have a few 70%-finished projects and I aim to get as much of them finished by next year as possible.