Revision 2026 - Compo - PC 64K Intro
2nd place, Squidopus Famelica, a very nice story-driven 64K intro:
And third place - what is it with the Amiga balls ?
Descent by Hork
If 64K is too large, the 8K intros pack more music than a 4K intro.
LIA - Aenigma
I like (watching) live shader programming as a form of interactive programming. These showdowns
aren't that great for displaying the craft IMO because there is no interaction with the music. But obviously
the results still are quite impressive. The live shader programming mildly is what 4K PC intros are
nowadays anyway, except that the 4K PC intros are not created in front of a live audience.
The Revision 2026 demo party ended, and they've already released the videos. From the main demo competition, there
is one long video, even with commentary. My two favourites are
Golden Egg by Gaspode - technically maybe not that challenging, but very nice composition and design
Razor1911 - Razor1911 - Depeche Mode casts a long shadow, but still a great demo
I always thought Teenage Engineering were expensive toys, with their (super
shiny) OP-1 and OP-XY , but the EP-40 series seems comparably cheap at € 400.
Of course, I wouldn't do much more with an EP-40 over an OP-1, but at €400
compared to €1200 , the expense is lower. Not buying either is still cheaper
and my rule of not buying a toy unless I have a concrete plan on when I'm going
to use it and what I'm going to do with it is still a money-saving rule.
Link: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/
After reading the link, I updated to
- better diff (histogram)
- Column mode
- Autocreate
- rerere
- zdiff3
- sort tags by version
From a HN discussion on that , I also added
whitespace=fix
Anna's Library is Backing up Spotify.
This sounds interesting, not for the music but for the metadata they've also
scraped. At least for the database schema and some kind of mildly universal
track ID and genre association, this seems promising.
Also, this means a non-spotify version of Hitster
is possible.