John Penner

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…

@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. 🤷🏼‍♂️

How did people learn coding back then when there were no docs or YouTube tutorials?

@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

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…

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?👇

Gyruss C64, Great Arcade convertion from Parker Brothers #c64 #commodore

Despite his immense popularity, 'Knighty Knight Bugs' (1959) is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Oscar.

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.

Forbiden Forest C64, A 64 Classic? #c64 #commodore

Steve Jobs email to Apple employees “Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

space hypnosis

How morse code works.

@20th_Centurygal Tame Impala 🎸 Inner Speaker

Name one album that’s perfect from start to finish. No skips. No filler. Just pure greatness...🎶🎸

@bernardtjoy george macdonald 🌬️ phantastes

Which novel, short story, poem, play or film gave you your very earliest introduction to the fantasy genre?

If the world map were piano notes

Your 1983 Hi-Fi was so much more stylish than anything you own today. Peak Bang & Olufsen. Just beautiful. What happened to cool design?

@helmortart @AcademiaAesthe1 be great if you knew how to spell 'exceptional' 🤣

@AcademiaAesthe1 Interesting but not ecceptional.

Portal of Perception, oil on canvas. — Freydoon Rassouli (Iranian, b.1943)

@AcademiaAesthe1 this was before all the A.I. slop — exceptional! ✨

“Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.” - Steve Jobs