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jzting··on Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game
Love the concept and execution! After finishing today’s I am going backwards to play the archive :)

If anyone else likes simple but fun word games, I made one for iOS here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1248738929

jzting··on Life-like particle system
If you like particles, you may enjoy this generative art project I made last year: https://www.artblocks.io/project/424
jzting··on Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL
Nice use of smooth union SDFs :)

I did a similar thing in 3D here: https://generator.artblocks.io/62000470

jzting··on Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them
hi victor, good to see you here! hope you're well :)
jzting··on From Shader to Metaball
Matt has some good courses:

* https://frontendmasters.com/courses/canvas-webgl/

* https://frontendmasters.com/courses/webgl-shaders/

jzting··on From Shader to Metaball
Nice, I did a generative art project last year exploring similar ideas: https://www.artblocks.io/project/62
jzting··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
JMBL: Delightful jumbled word puzzles (iOS) - http://bit.ly/jmblgame

I love word games, especially Scrabble. I've always wanted a game that is like a rack of Scrabble tiles I can swipe around to try to make a word.

jzting··on Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail
This is great! Will you be supporting the different type of inboxes e.g. "Important first"?
jzting··on Boids
I also have an implementation [0] that shows the paths of the boids. Based on the parameters, some very interesting patterns emerge!

[0] http://jzlabs.com/

jzting··on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
JMBL, a word game for iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jmbl-word-puzzle-game/id124873...)
jzting··on Google Photos – Can I get out?
Not at the moment, but in the overflow menu there is an option to "Remove Results" where you can remove false positives from a set of results.
jzting··on Show HN: Scrambled – An iOS Game in HTML5
Looks and feels great! Makes me reconsider using HTML5 for a similar word game I've been working on.
jzting··on Show HN: my new app Timebar has a clever UI (I think)
Very clever! Some feedback:

* Text can get truncated sometimes: http://f.cl.ly/items/1G3L1F2D3P032T2F3m3E/Screen%20Shot%2020... * Is it possible to change the actual menu bar color? The overlay kind of makes it hard to make out the other items in the menu bar. Maybe an opacity setting would help.

jzting··on Use Letterpest to win at Letterpress
Nice work!

Small bug: "Q" is getting recognized as "O" on a few boards I've tested.

jzting··on Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something
No app for that (yet).
jzting··on Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something
Thanks! I have a couple other apps available:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/led-light-for-iphone-4-free/i... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/good-word-free-words-friends/...

I worked with the same designer for these apps. I've noticed great design and UX really helps!

jzting··on Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something
I ended up doing the processing server side - performance on older devices was shockingly slow.
jzting··on Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something
It's using OpenCV's template matching function. I tried to use other OCR libraries but OpenCV ended up yielding the most accurate results.
jzting··on Show HN: Solve Something - an image-based solver for Draw Something
Made this over a handful of nights and weekends. To use, take a screenshot of the Draw Something drawing you are trying to guess and import it into the app. That's all!
jzting··on JSHint, A JavaScript Code Quality Tool
TextMate bundle is quite nice as well: http://fgnass.posterous.com/jslint-in-textmate
jzting··on Rround
Very nice. Reminds me of what http://ban.jo/ is doing on mobile.
jzting··on App.net
Looks great. Is there any way for analytics ignore clicks from the creator? Just got an inflated click count while testing out different templates.
jzting··on Hulu Commercial Auto-Muter
Works well with this Chrome proxy switcher: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caehdcpeofiiigpdhb...
jzting··on How a Dev From China won $9000 in Microsoft's HTML5 Contest
Looks very similar to http://www.sinuousgame.com/
jzting··on Textify: Convert images to HTML text
Love it.
jzting··on Happy 35th birthday to Apple, Inc.
...and a beautiful day in Cupertino for the on-campus beer bash.
jzting··on Marble Paint: Canvas+accelerometer drawing experiment
Works on Mac laptops in Chrome (tilt your machine) and iOS 4.2 devices.
jzting··on How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store
I recently added Appirater in an update to one of my apps and I believe has really helped gather positive reviews.

Getting the timing right is a bit tricky - I've opted to prompt the user after ten uses at a point where interaction with the app won't be obstructed by the alert.

As a side note, I think that the alerts should be shown only once. I was using another app that would prompt every other time to rate and the default dismiss button was "Remind me later"...very annoying.

jzting··on Bump (YC S09) Raises $16 Million Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
congrats, guys!
jzting··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
The iAd revenue from my flashlight app has continued to do quite well.
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