[HN Gopher] Joy.js - make happy little programs (2017)
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       Joy.js - make happy little programs (2017)
        
       Author : mbildner
       Score  : 138 points
       Date   : 2021-11-18 16:15 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (ncase.me)
        
       | yig wrote:
       | This should have (2017) in the title. Source: The date heading on
       | the projects list https://ncase.me/projects/
        
         | mbildner wrote:
         | updated - thank you!
        
       | spicybright wrote:
       | Sorry to post something unrelated, but I'm looking for a game
       | engine posted to HN maybe a year ago.
       | 
       | It was a website you could make "games" on. The only tools
       | available were 16 screens you could paint, with 16 colors. Each
       | can be configured to jump to a different screen when clicked.
       | 
       | There was a gallery, with one of the more memorable games being a
       | member from the band Kiss performing a card trick for you.
        
         | azeirah wrote:
         | Are you thinking of PICO-8 perhaps?
        
         | scgrn wrote:
         | https://www.flickgame.org/
        
           | spicybright wrote:
           | YES. Ty!
        
       | debacle wrote:
       | "Write JSON strings inside your JSON" is the kind of anti-pattern
       | that software engineers have known about since before the advent
       | of XML.
        
       | beaconstudios wrote:
       | Nicky's work is a joy and a blessing - one of a small number of
       | great artists and creators online playing with systems and
       | simulations in attempt to educate people through experimentation
       | and play.
       | 
       | Other people worth checking out:
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       | - Bret Victor (worrydream.com)
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       | - Kevin Simler (https://meltingasphalt.com/)
       | 
       | - the "explorables" subreddit
       | (https://www.reddit.com/r/explorables/)
       | 
       | If anyone else can recommend other writers or makers in this
       | area, I'd love to hear about them! It's an area that I really
       | enjoy and I hope to contribute to when I have a bit more free
       | time.
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       | [edit] also I'm happy about the fact that Nicky's work often has
       | to do with systems theory, which is one of the biggest remaining
       | frontiers of human understanding in the universe.
        
       | Dangeranger wrote:
       | This is wonderful.
       | 
       | I've appreciated Nikky's work for years, but didn't know they
       | created something like this. A "Logo" for the modern web is
       | something that I've felt has been missing for a while.
        
         | dflock wrote:
         | Agreed! There's also https://p5js.org/
        
       | ripley12 wrote:
       | This is lovely. I really like that you can adjust numeric values
       | by clicking and dragging and the visualization updates in real
       | time; reminds me of the demos from Bret Victor's Inventing on
       | Principle.
        
         | beaconstudios wrote:
         | Nicky's work is closely related to Bret's! They're both working
         | on learning through play and interaction, which is imo a very
         | important area of development.
        
       | dlojudice wrote:
       | Nicky is much more than a developer, creating beautiful projects
       | to explain complex concepts. There are projects involving
       | complexity concepts that are mind blowing
        
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