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John Penner

@johnrpenner

chess programmer ♟️ bass player 🎸 and music producer 🎹 from toronto island 🏝️

Toronto Island Katılım Mart 2023
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John Penner
John Penner@johnrpenner·
GravOIDS is an Asteroids type old-school 2D Shooter for macOS 👾 it has elements of Defender, Lunar Lander, and Meteor Mission II with Music by TREPANIC 🎶 apps.apple.com/ca/app/gravoid…
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John Penner@johnrpenner·
@justbyte_ The C Programming Language by Keninghan & Ritchie — this was your bible. this was your internet. this was your stackoverflow — you lived. eat. breathe this book. THAT is how you learned programming. 🤷🏼‍♂️
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Aryan@justbyte_·
How did people learn coding back then when there were no docs or YouTube tutorials?
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John Penner@johnrpenner·
@pickover you may appreciate the simplicity of: FOR t = 0 TO Steps STEP 0.75 x = (R - r) * COS(t) + d * COS((R - r) * t / r) + cx y = (R - r) * SIN(t) - d * SIN((R - r) * t / r) + cy var AA : Float = 1.0 - (RND(1) * 0.75) point(x,y, R, G, B) NEXT t
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John Penner@johnrpenner·
pBasic 🌈 spiroThree.bas demo | expanding the dynamic colour contrast of the effect by darkening the pixel colour every second pass — with unreleased sternelicht music in accomanyment. 🎹 ✅ Download pTerm for macOS dropbox.com/scl/fi/jdyoyt6…
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Gracia
Gracia@straceX·
In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magic code instead. How the hell does 0x5f3759df calculate a square root?👇
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old toons
old toons@oldtoons_·
Despite his immense popularity, 'Knighty Knight Bugs' (1959) is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar.
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Indie Game Joe
Indie Game Joe@IndieGameJoe·
This indie dev is making a game where you can literally play as Ancient Egyptian wall art. - Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art - Survive puzzles that fight back - Progress by mastering both worlds It’s called Fresco. This mechanic is genius.
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Finding Compounders
Finding Compounders@F_Compounders·
Steve Jobs email to Apple employees “Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
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compusophy@compusophy·
space hypnosis
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Learn Something
Learn Something@cooltechtipz·
How morse code works.
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Amy@20th_Centurygal·
Name one album that’s perfect from start to finish. No skips. No filler. Just pure greatness...🎶🎸
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Bernard T. Joy
Bernard T. Joy@bernardtjoy·
Which novel, short story, poem, play or film gave you your very earliest introduction to the fantasy genre?
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solringen@wineandsunrise·
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DaVinci
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci·
If the world map were piano notes
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Rob Boyd, Esq
Rob Boyd, Esq@AvonandsomerRob·
Your 1983 Hi-Fi was so much more stylish than anything you own today. Peak Bang & Olufsen. Just beautiful. What happened to cool design?
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Academia Aesthetics
Academia Aesthetics@AcademiaAesthe1·
Portal of Perception, oil on canvas. — Freydoon Rassouli (Iranian, b.1943)
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Curious Minds
Curious Minds@CuriousMindsHub·
“Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.” - Steve Jobs
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