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kylejrpon Using the ZBar barcode scanning suite in the browser with WebAssembly

eBay did a similar experiment with ZBar in WebAssembly in 2019: https://innovation.ebayinc.com/tech/engineering/webassembly-...

kylejrpon Show HN: Gamebody, a full-body game controller

"I'm the video game boy! I'm the one who wins!"

kylejrpon Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git

I really like using The Git Parable to help people understand the motivations behind Git. Remotes and staging seem really weird at first.

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...

kylejrpon When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets

I once helped someone create a monstrosity of an SVG - they exported a flowchart SVG from Visio that would show the current state of different steps of a project. The status of each step was stored in a SQL database. I helped write some JavaScript inside the SVG that would create an ActiveX object that would open up a ODBC connection and execute a SQL query to get the latest states, which would update the colors on the flowchart every time you loaded the SVG. It would obviously only work in IE11. Plaintext credentials stored right inside the SVG!

kylejrpon The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)

As part of the Stack Overflow April Fools' prank, we did some data analysis on copy behavior on the site [0]. The most copied answer during the collection period (~1 month) was "How to iterate over rows in a DataFrame in Pandas" [1], receiving 11k copies!

[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/04/19/how-often-do-people-ac...

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/16476974/16476924