lbebber

It _is_ really weird, that didn't use to happen either. Started happening after some update of either Chrome or macOS, I'm not certain which.

In fact I think this is one of the most frustrating things of working with WebGL (or any of those slightly less common browser APIs, really), lots of small weird compatibility issues and instabilities.

Hi, I'm the author of the rain effect (not of the website itself though).

You can see the original effect here[1], along with an explanation here[2].

If you like it, you can see a few more effects and experiments on my portfolio here[3], although it's been a couple of years now since I've done anything of the sort (that I can post publicly, that is).

[1] https://tympanus.net/Development/RainEffect/

[2] https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...

[3] http://lbebber.github.io/

It has already been posted by jeffschofield, but the original is here[1], along with a brief article breaking down the effect[2].

The one you posted is in many ways nicer though due to it all being a single shader, however it has the downside of the drops not interacting with each other.

[1] https://tympanus.net/Development/RainEffect/

[2] https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...

There was an attempt of making the drops merge more naturally, but it was affecting the refraction effect, which I deemed was more important.

It should be solvable though, I just couldn't get the values right at the time.

(Also thanks!)

Hey, I'm the author--thanks for posting this here.

The page actually uses the exact same effect, so the article provides a decent breakdown of how it works, for those interested.

We've had -3ºC these weeks, which is about as cold as it gets here. It snows in some regions but it's a bit rare, once in a year in some places, once in a decade in others.

FWIW it is getting worse just now in the south of Brazil, where we have colder winters.

I like that push notifications on the browser exist (for e.g. Slack, WhatsApp), I just wish there were no popups for it--just an unintrusive button you could press to enable it.

Do try vscodevim, I made the switch and I haven't looked back. Best of both worlds for me.

I just wanna give my 2c in that after some years using vim I've started using vscodevim and I just love it. Perhaps it helps that it happens to match my vim config pretty closely (surround, easymotion, + language plugins and stuff such as ctrl p that is native to vscode).

Simply pretty much everyone here uses WhatsApp, including people who have no other contact with the internet.

Here’s a lil trick: if you have to, you can access your Facebook messages on mbasic.facebook.com.

(And on to the point, Facebook has also, of course, WhatsApp, which is massive)

I am credited for the "menu code" and "inspiration", though, hahah

But it doesn't matter, I posted the code for it to be used, I'm glad to see it in the wild.

(author) Hey, I could help with that. I was beginning to work on a better version of it a while ago, but haven't gotten around finishing it.

This got me started: https://webglfundamentals.org/

You've probably come across it though, as it does seem to gloss over some basic stuff. But it does cover the basics pretty well, just gotta keep an eye for details and seemingly unimportant one-liners that turn out to be fundamental.

It also takes some googling for deeper explanation of some functions, which often result on Stack Overflow answers by the author himself.

Dealing with the WebGL API itself is a bit... let's say tricky, though. But working with shaders for me is a joy.

This also seems promising, though I only skimmed over it: https://thebookofshaders.com/

And also, look into https://shadertoy.com/. Both for using the shaders there as example and as a playground.

It's been a while since I made this, but it's a good suggestion! Rest assured that there was hardly any method to it though, mostly hair-pulling when things did not look quite good! (which is, for me at least, the biggest pain in working with this kind of thing)

But there are some neat tricks which, while not necessarily transferable themselves, might serve as inspiration for other problems.

It actually did not have anything to do with being resource intensive or such, it had to do with looks—with the raindrops sharp I had to get the parameters of the refraction perfectly right, it seemed, for it to look convincing, otherwise it looked extremely artificial and kind of "flat".

By that point I had already spent more time on this than I'd have liked, and allowing for a little blur was an easier way for it to look good enough.

I haven't been doing any "public" work lately, but I'll post anything I make on my Twitter[1], especially if I ever get to finish this updated version.

https://twitter.com/lucasbebber

This has not been done in the most optimal way—it could do with a lot less JS being used. A version with (mostly) WebGL could be much less resource hungry.

Try this version for comparison: https://codepen.io/stefanweck/pen/Vbgeax

This is not a single shader, the animation is done with JS/canvas 2d, the shader does just the refraction.

I wrote an article about it here[1], but I made this back when I was first learning WebGL (it was my first WebGL project, in fact), so be aware that a lot of things could be better!

[1]https://tympanus.net/codrops/2015/11/04/rain-water-effect-ex...

(Author here) Thanks! I was making a version with a better "impact" effect and better "trails", which are the weakest parts currently in my opinion, as well as making the larger raindrops sharper—they get a bit blurry right now. I haven't had the time/will to finish it though!

This effect uses both WebGL and canvas 2d. I'd guess that for some reason the canvas 2d isn't using hardware acceleration on those browsers?

Somebody has made a version using WebGL alone[1] (sadly they got the refraction a bit wrong), try it to see if it works well enough (and let me know, I'm curious myself).

[1] https://codepen.io/stefanweck/pen/Vbgeax

Hey, I made this for Codrops, like 2 or 3 years ago?

I mean, the rain effect itself, not the whole UI around it here.

Edit: Here's[1] the accompanying article, and here's[2] some other stuff I made (although my website is also just as old and hasn't been updated since!)

[1]http://tympanus.net/codrops/rain-water-effect-experiments/

[2]http://lbebber.github.io/

I like it.

Interesting. In (Brazilian) Portuguese, "isso" and "isso aí" ("this", "this there") is used to confirm or agree with something, so it seems the expression survived the times.

Do you need to use it on insert mode as well? I set to use space as the leader key only on normal mode so there's no lag.

It depends where; in Brazil, for instance, WhatsApp groups are becoming the main social network for a large amount of people—nevermind 1:1 chat.

Iosevka has many weights and is customizable though. Or you mean narrow?

Or http://mbasic.facebook.com

It's as meaningful as it's thankless.

If it's your native language, or if you're at a good level of fluency, you don't have to "remember" it, it comes naturally.

I agree it's harder for students though.