ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering(alexharri.com)

1271 points by alexharri 9 months ago | 139 comments

Blog post by Alex Harri taking a deep dive into building an image-to-ASCII renderer, with interactive demos explaining why ASCII characters aren't pixels.

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

Gleam, Coming from Erlang(olano.dev)

177 points by ingve 1 year ago | 57 comments

Chinchilla’s death(espadrine.github.io)

156 points by KolmogorovComp 3 years ago | 37 comments

Emulating the FMAdd Instruction, Part 1: 32-bit Floats(drilian.com)

29 points by TazeTSchnitzel 1 year ago | 4 comments

Getting old Macromedia Director Games to run on modern Hardware(werwolv.net)

78 points by speckx 17 days ago | 15 comments

Blog post describing how the author got childhood Macromedia Director games running on modern hardware by working around old copy-protection mechanisms.