nolen
@itseieio.bsky.social
the internet can still be fun!
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com • http://eieio.games • https://everyuuid.com • https://onemillionchessboards.com
~new newsletter about fun weird internet stuff~
every month my friend justin and I:
* write down everything our friends made
* bother them until they write a little blurb
the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of
newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...
every month my friend justin and I:
* write down everything our friends made
* bother them until they write a little blurb
the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of
newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...
August 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
~new newsletter about fun weird internet stuff~
every month my friend justin and I:
* write down everything our friends made
* bother them until they write a little blurb
the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of
newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...
every month my friend justin and I:
* write down everything our friends made
* bother them until they write a little blurb
the first issue features mads mikkelsen, kind of
newslettergoeshere.substack.com/p/projects-f...
installed the Chrome Developer Beta and now a little goblin keeps eating my URL bar? anyone know how to remove this
June 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
installed the Chrome Developer Beta and now a little goblin keeps eating my URL bar? anyone know how to remove this
your cursor is a bow and arrow
June 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
your cursor is a bow and arrow
your cursor is the gun from portal
had to figure out how to add multiple cursors to an html textarea for this one lol
had to figure out how to add multiple cursors to an html textarea for this one lol
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
your cursor is the gun from portal
had to figure out how to add multiple cursors to an html textarea for this one lol
had to figure out how to add multiple cursors to an html textarea for this one lol
your cursor is an umbrella
June 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
your cursor is an umbrella
your cursor is a bridge
June 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
your cursor is a bridge
oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh
June 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh
LLMs also regularly confuse verbosity for clarity or give sidebars too much importance when I ask them to suggest edits - for example, with this response from Claude when I asked it to look at my post about everyuuid.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:40 AM
LLMs also regularly confuse verbosity for clarity or give sidebars too much importance when I ask them to suggest edits - for example, with this response from Claude when I asked it to look at my post about everyuuid.com
I've shipped ~335 GB of chess data to clients so far!
I ship zstd-compressed protobufs. I profiled before launch and this would be:
* ~450 GB if it was compressed JSON
* ~1190 GB if it was uncompressed protobufs
* ~10800 GB if it was my original unoptimized uncompressed JSON
I ship zstd-compressed protobufs. I profiled before launch and this would be:
* ~450 GB if it was compressed JSON
* ~1190 GB if it was uncompressed protobufs
* ~10800 GB if it was my original unoptimized uncompressed JSON
May 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I've shipped ~335 GB of chess data to clients so far!
I ship zstd-compressed protobufs. I profiled before launch and this would be:
* ~450 GB if it was compressed JSON
* ~1190 GB if it was uncompressed protobufs
* ~10800 GB if it was my original unoptimized uncompressed JSON
I ship zstd-compressed protobufs. I profiled before launch and this would be:
* ~450 GB if it was compressed JSON
* ~1190 GB if it was uncompressed protobufs
* ~10800 GB if it was my original unoptimized uncompressed JSON
Fun fact about One Million Chessboards - I did it in one process entirely because 9 months ago a Hacker News commenter pointed out that I should have used one process for One Million Checkboxes
working on my writeup now, lmk if you have specific Qs!
working on my writeup now, lmk if you have specific Qs!
May 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Fun fact about One Million Chessboards - I did it in one process entirely because 9 months ago a Hacker News commenter pointed out that I should have used one process for One Million Checkboxes
working on my writeup now, lmk if you have specific Qs!
working on my writeup now, lmk if you have specific Qs!
I haven't had to touch the server for One Million Chessboards once since launch
a first for me, kinda neat!
a first for me, kinda neat!
May 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I haven't had to touch the server for One Million Chessboards once since launch
a first for me, kinda neat!
a first for me, kinda neat!
one day into my realtime chess MMO:
* 4.1 million moves made
* 650 concurrent players. we're growing!!
* server still vibing
TIP: zoom out, then use the skull to jump to recent captures. then double click where you see movement. easy way to find someone to fight!
* 4.1 million moves made
* 650 concurrent players. we're growing!!
* server still vibing
TIP: zoom out, then use the skull to jump to recent captures. then double click where you see movement. easy way to find someone to fight!
April 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
one day into my realtime chess MMO:
* 4.1 million moves made
* 650 concurrent players. we're growing!!
* server still vibing
TIP: zoom out, then use the skull to jump to recent captures. then double click where you see movement. easy way to find someone to fight!
* 4.1 million moves made
* 650 concurrent players. we're growing!!
* server still vibing
TIP: zoom out, then use the skull to jump to recent captures. then double click where you see movement. easy way to find someone to fight!
my global realtime chess MMO, One Million Chessboards, passed 1 million moves 6 hours after launch!
come hang out and capture some pieces :)
onemillionchessboards.com
come hang out and capture some pieces :)
onemillionchessboards.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
my global realtime chess MMO, One Million Chessboards, passed 1 million moves 6 hours after launch!
come hang out and capture some pieces :)
onemillionchessboards.com
come hang out and capture some pieces :)
onemillionchessboards.com
it's 1 golang process lol
it's really just 64 million uint64s in a single array, a mutex that protects that array, a single writer goroutine, and a bunch of work to efficiently ferry moves and snapshots back to users
it's really just 64 million uint64s in a single array, a mutex that protects that array, a single writer goroutine, and a bunch of work to efficiently ferry moves and snapshots back to users
April 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
it's 1 golang process lol
it's really just 64 million uint64s in a single array, a mutex that protects that array, a single writer goroutine, and a bunch of work to efficiently ferry moves and snapshots back to users
it's really just 64 million uint64s in a single array, a mutex that protects that array, a single writer goroutine, and a bunch of work to efficiently ferry moves and snapshots back to users
I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it.
moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.
that's it. Have fun!
onemillionchessboards.com
moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.
that's it. Have fun!
onemillionchessboards.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I made a website. It's called "one million chessboards." It has a million chessboards on it.
moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.
that's it. Have fun!
onemillionchessboards.com
moving a piece moves it for everyone, instantly. No turns. You can move between boards.
that's it. Have fun!
onemillionchessboards.com
i give up. citi having a UI with FIFTEEN EXTRA ZEROs that you have to delete before doing any transaction is funnier than any computer joke i will ever make
"yes, our UI defaults to sending quadrillions of dollars"
"yes, our UI defaults to sending quadrillions of dollars"
March 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
i give up. citi having a UI with FIFTEEN EXTRA ZEROs that you have to delete before doing any transaction is funnier than any computer joke i will ever make
"yes, our UI defaults to sending quadrillions of dollars"
"yes, our UI defaults to sending quadrillions of dollars"
made a website that teaches you how to smile like mark zuckerberg (smilelikezuck.com)
March 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
made a website that teaches you how to smile like mark zuckerberg (smilelikezuck.com)
look we don't really understand how to run in the snow but that's ok we're having fun
February 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
look we don't really understand how to run in the snow but that's ok we're having fun
brought the puppy to vermont for her first time in real snow :)
February 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
brought the puppy to vermont for her first time in real snow :)
what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs?
I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine
blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...
I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine
blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...
February 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
what do y'all do with your unclosed tabs?
I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine
blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...
I've been running pong inside all 240 of mine
blog with a bunch of details over here: eieio.games/blog/running...
my dad is a history of christianity professor and years ago I got him a massive 'receipt' that had the items from the Last Supper
kinda similar vibes. iirc it's on real thermal paper and the artist hand-tore the top and bottom :)
kinda similar vibes. iirc it's on real thermal paper and the artist hand-tore the top and bottom :)
February 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
my dad is a history of christianity professor and years ago I got him a massive 'receipt' that had the items from the Last Supper
kinda similar vibes. iirc it's on real thermal paper and the artist hand-tore the top and bottom :)
kinda similar vibes. iirc it's on real thermal paper and the artist hand-tore the top and bottom :)
globAL CapSlOck is OVER
ThanKS FoR PlaYING
ThanKS FoR PlaYING
February 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
globAL CapSlOck is OVER
ThanKS FoR PlaYING
ThanKS FoR PlaYING
I think about this story all the time now.
Partially because there's a through line from this to stuff like my flappy bird in finder project; it's fun to abuse technology, and it's cool to see that I was the same way as a kid.
Partially because there's a through line from this to stuff like my flappy bird in finder project; it's fun to abuse technology, and it's cool to see that I was the same way as a kid.
February 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I think about this story all the time now.
Partially because there's a through line from this to stuff like my flappy bird in finder project; it's fun to abuse technology, and it's cool to see that I was the same way as a kid.
Partially because there's a through line from this to stuff like my flappy bird in finder project; it's fun to abuse technology, and it's cool to see that I was the same way as a kid.