Vanessa Freudenberg

We are building something new at @CroquetIO – a new decentralized infrastructure (#DePIN) to run Croquet Multiplayer apps on: @multisynq See the blog post below, and feel free to use my signup link for a bonus: multisynq.io/auth?referral=… Onward and upwards! mirror.xyz/0x55cf7dffbcdD…

@FreeSolGamesDev @fafnir @multisynq @billyjhowell No there’s no consensus mechanism. But you can’t directly modify state of other players. We don’t broadcast state changes, but input events. Otherwise it’s a deterministic simulation

@fafnir @multisynq @billyjhowell mmm consensus ok

who is vibe coding a game right now? what stack do you use?

Prompts: aistudio.google.com/prompts/1uwRMd… The example app given in the first prompt: github.com/multisynq/mult… Let us know what you make @multisynq!

I spent an afternoon vibe-coding a multiplayer game with @multisynq and @threejs using @GeminiApp – 100% AI coded, although I had to explain how to correct the errors. Zero server code, client-side multiplayer, ideal for AI. Live and source on @CodePen: codepen.io/codefrau/full/…

@port_dev @multisynq Oh that sounds fun. I’ll try to be there too, in case there’s more questions

so we have this thing called a Devnads Hangout at Monad Developer Discord and tomorrow at 3:30pm UTC, we will be yapping about @multisynq with Chuckles from Multisynq! well, I think you should come and join us, because why not (building cool stuff on Monad is cooool) see you there. (link in second tweet)

@mrdoob @multisynq As for number of users, this sim in particular is extra low traffic because only the true/false values of what key is pressed is transmitted. Probably hundreds. In general it depends on the number of events/sec/user times number of users squared. A few dozen typically.

@mrdoob @multisynq Can’t say. But one of the major points of setting up a DePIN is getting the cost down below the regular offerings. Basically we don’t need to pay the big hosters for compute (because that’s happening on the clients) nor for traffic (because that’s peer-to-peer).

Gemini 2.5 Pro really is impressive... "Can you create a simple 3d car simulator with Three.js in a single HTML? Please add clouds, mountains, a road, some trees and a train going around. Make sure it works on mobile."

@mrdoob @multisynq We do actually walk the walk 😉

@codefrau @multisynq Now you're talking!

@mrdoob @multisynq It's easier to try in full-screen: codepen.io/codefrau/full/…

@mrdoob That’s impressive for a one-shot! Couldn’t help myself, had to add multiplayer with @multisynq 😎 Still a one-page HTML, no server, code at codepen.io/codefrau/pen/P…

@oxrichdaf @multisynq It’s not a streaming platform. We’ve integrated various video chats but Multisynq itself durch do that. Not sure what you mean by “presentation” – you could build a shared slide viewer easily, sure.

@multisynq Can it be used else where apart from gaming, like video chat, presentation and all that.

@dynlangsym @timfelgentreff @krono Thank you! And congrats to my co-authors. It’s been an incredible 10 years. Check out @SqueakJS for things people built with SqueakJS, and try it at squeak.js.org

This year's DLS Most Notable Paper award goes to: SqueakJS: A Modern and Practical Smalltalk that Runs in Any Browser by @codefrau, Dan Ingalls, @timfelgentreff, @krono, and Robert Hirschfeld. Congratulations to the authors! Read the paper here: freudenbergs.de/vanessa/public…

We are hiring a #SysAdmin / #NetOps / #DevOps person. Until now I was covering all of the above myself besides my actual job – we are smol but fun 🙋🏻‍♀️ I'm looking for an experienced generalist more than someone deeply specialized. Apply at croquet.io/jobs/ Please share!

@TruffleSqueak @HPI_DE Neat! 💜 How much overhead is in the proxy? Meaning, would it be worth speed-wise e.g. for BitBlt?

Many OpenSmalltalkVM plugins, such as SqueakSSL, can now be easily reused in @TruffleSqueak, which improves compatibility significantly! Thanks to students from @HPI_DE, TruffleSqueak now has an InterpreterProxy implementation that makes this possible: github.com/hpi-swa/truffl…

@MarkusGaelli @SqueakJS No idea, sorry

@codefrau @SqueakJS Thanks a lot, found it. Do you know an Etoys Image running on 64 bits OS-X (ARM) containing the Ned Konz' connectors?

New SqueakJS release 1.1 lets you save Etoys projects (finally!) 🎉 If you're curious about how Squeak use the Garbage Collector to find "image segments" in Squeak, this is the code: #L912" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/codefrau/Squea… Also fixes Scratch project saving and has other minor improvements.

@MarkusGaelli @SqueakJS Files are saved locally inside the browser, and can be loaded again using Squeak tools. The file system is shared between all pages on the same web site. You can export files to your operating system from this page: squeak.js.org/run/

@SqueakJS Cool, but where are they saved to? (Say on Mac/Chrome)?

@SirFizX207 @SqueakJS Found the bug! I was not properly transforming the light direction. Also, when GLLighting is enabled, vertex color is not used at all unless GLColorMaterial is enabled. That didn't matter though since the color was white anyways. github.com/codefrau/jasmi…

@SirFizX207 @SqueakJS Yes, you are right. According to the spec: "The initial value for GL_LIGHT0 is (1, 1, 1, 1); for other lights, the initial value is (0, 0, 0, 1)." I just fixed that. But it makes no difference, since Croquet sets all light parameters in every frame and does not use the defaults.

I've been having fun reviving the Croquet from 20 years ago using @SqueakJS . It's not perfect yet, but a lot of the old demos work (sans collaboration, so far). This is pretty close to the version Alan Kay used to give his Turing Award lecture in 2004: github.com/codefrau/jasmi…