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Comment · 4 months ago
Always love to see new baseball visualizations. Not necessarily a big fan of AI art, but it's cool how dynamic it is. Some constructive criticism: I think using a real pixel font and maybe writing a deterministic downsampling algo for the images instead of relying on AI would go a long way to make this look better.
Not to hijack your thread but in case anyone's interested in a physical scoreboard built on top of the same APIs using Raspberry Pis, I have a project as well. We also support software emulation if you don't want to buy parts.
https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard
You can see it in action here:
Comment · 1 year ago
I was crazy enough to try this as well this year. It would be an extreme stretch to consider me a SQL expert, but I did make it to Day 14.
I agree with all the points in the post. It's really not that bad. If I had more time to devote to it, I think I could have reasonably completed more.
Here's my writeup, contains a link to the repo if you want to see some of the soutions.
https://github.com/ty-porter/advent-of-code/tree/master/2024...
Comment · 2 years ago
As someone who lives a few miles from Georgetown, KY, it's important to note that this factory already exists and sounds like they are (partially) re-tooling it to begin EV production. So that might explain the dollar figure.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, and in fact, it's almost certainly the cause given the huge disclaimer on the linked page.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ah I remember Xfire, pretty sure the biggest draw for me was the FPS counter it gave you.
I doubt this is related to the current domain, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire#Video_game_and_pop_cultu...
Comment · 3 years ago
I think you forgot an 8 there.
Comment · 3 years ago
I 3D printed an ABENICS mechanism. I don't have much of a mechanical engineering background so it was very cool to learn how to do this.
https://blog.ty-porter.dev/3d%20printing/mechanical%20engine...
Comment · 3 years ago
That works both ways, though. Content that is high quality but is lacking broad appeal will go away as well.
Full disclosure,I don't know what the right answer is here but it certainly isn't as black-and-white as this.
Comment · 3 years ago
https://blog.ty-porter.dev/
Random stuff, mostly software with a little bit of 3D printing. My latest physical project (an ABENICS clone -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUv9Zda_48) has been getting a bit of traffic from the 3D printing community.
Comment · 3 years ago
> I think the majority of users don’t really care about the API or subreddits going private as they primarily just lurk.
I agree. These protests have missed the point. There is a (very) loud minority raising hell right now, but spez is right, it's just noise. The silent majority is still hanging around.
Comment · 3 years ago
Right? That's what I've never understood. Putting ads in the API is irrelevant, since the 3rd party clients will just ignore them.
The Reddit that the loud minority wants is never, ever coming back. These protests are just a blip -- if you don't like what Reddit has become, your only recourse is to leave.
Comment · 3 years ago
I built an emulator for HUB75 LED matrix panels.
https://github.com/ty-porter/RGBMatrixEmulator
One of the side projects I work on is a scoreboard that displays MLB scores. It's highly configurable -- you buy the size panel you want and a Raspberry Pi, install the software, and you can configure it to display games, standings, and news headlines for your favorite team or division.
The problem is that the hardware is purchased by the end user, so it can come in many different sizes. I think we officially support 6 or 7 sizes right now, and each panel can be a chunk of change if you get a nice one. If we wanted to test on every device that means I need to shell out 50 bucks x 7 sizes, plus Raspberry Pi and wiring adapter, so not insignificant for a hobby project. Instead, I wrote a drop-in replacement emulator that makes it super simple to emulate any size panel across a variety of display types.
The most advanced display adapter spins up a minimal webserver and serves emulated images over a websocket, meaning you can display your panel over the network on pretty much any device with a web browser.
I write about it quite a bit, if further interested: https://blog.ty-porter.dev/categories.html#emulation-ref