Latest bookmarks (page 1 of 14)

23 Apr krystalrose.com (Archive)
"Welcome to the most unusual artifact to be discovered on the Superhighway de la Informatique : the really big button that doesn't do anything. Developed in early '94, labelled as the Mystery Spot of the Internet, thousands flock to this button every day, pushing it, attempting to get it to do something; all in vain. "
"This is the latest version of the Descent 3 source code. This includes the '1.5' patch that Jeff Slutter and Kevin Bentley wrote several years ago. At the time, it worked for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
Some proprietary sound and video libraries from Interplay have been stripped out (the ACM and MVE format). I have that code if someone wants to help make a converter so the old cutscenes work. It'll take some effort to stub out that code so it compiles."
"A QR code that appears to be entirely composed of your webcam video — and yet remains scannable!"
"In this post you will learn about how I built a comment interface on top the ATProto protocol and Bluesky social network. The post is relatively technical, but I also try to tell a story of how I got to this point. Read on if you are interested in social networks, decentralized protocols, open standards, and Bluesky."
8 Apr pretendo.network (Archive)
Pretendo is a free and open source replacement for Nintendo's servers for both the 3DS and Wii U, allowing online connectivity for all, even after the original servers are discontinued
An FPS/RTS hybrid game powered by the Daemon engine (a combination of ioq3 and XreaL)
A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 4B, 3B+, and 0W2 built on the TFLite version of BirdNET.