Looks like this is available (since Go 1.21 [0]), so no need to build from source anymore. Just did a quick 'hello world' test to verify and it worked:
GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm go build -o main.wasm main.go
wasmtime main.wasm
If you're interested in wasm/wasi and niche hardware with Go, you should check out TinyGo [1] if you haven't already.
Oh wow thanks for telling me, looks like I was using gotip/ source go for no reason but thanks for telling me this, this actually really simplifies a lot of things :p
Tinygo is really awesome but I have heard that it has its differences so software written for golang won't really work ootb on tinygo and tinygo is really fascinating project too!
I have a question but is it possible to create golang compiler itself within wasm itself. I tried doing it but it didn't really work out but I am curious if someone has thought of doing something like this or has already done it?
Wow, this is very tragic. I was actually just reflecting on the influence Howstuffworks.com had on my life and interests. Quick story:
My first introduction to programming was building a Geocities website in HTML (using notepad, of course) at a science camp in 1999. They also showed us the "How HTML Works" web page as a resource, which became my first technical resource. I remembering struggling with something on my website and eventually emailing my question to Howstuffworks, not expecting much back. Not only did a very patient and informative woman respond to me, she continued to answer my questions and offer helpful guidance to this very eager kid for the rest of the summer. Without that positive experience, who knows if I would have stuck with it. It's been on mind a lot since I just realized that was 25 years ago.
I hope Marshall knew how much people valued the things he created and the impact they had.
Same experience for me. I was able to buy my first drumset from the money I got for making a PHP+MySQL+HTML website for someone (also done all in notepad). I did not know anything about computers but I needed to buy a drumset. And that page actually got me going about how HTML works.
I still remember their animations about car differential which were magical.
I feel like it's worth mentioning icanhazip.com [0] as well, since it's now run by Cloudflare [1]. Until recently switching to a custom CF worker, that's been by go-to for ages.
Does Cloudflare have a history of sunsetting products they've bought? Acquisitions by Google, Apple, Meta, etc. are yellow flags that the product may cease to exist soon. I wonder if Cloudflare has a better track record in that regard.
Ugh, same. You’re right. Nothing is safe at Google or even a safe bet with Google. Look at third-party cookies. I can’t believe there isn’t outrage in the streets over the fact that they beat that drum for four straight years and now they suddenly have a change of heart.
At some point their rationale has to become irrelevant. It’s simply unprofessional behavior.
This narrative might be shifting in realtime with the LLM race and privacy wars. How do I advertise in Gemini? Do Google users want me to? I’ve worked in and around digital advertising and marketing for the better part of a decade. We look at Google with all the admiration one would have for a pet crocodile.
NameCheap for the ones they support. I don’t like how tightly wound Cloudflare domains are with the account. I’m nervous about putting too many eggs in one basket with them. I sometimes need to switch hosting a domain in a cloudflare account with another cloudflare account. They don’t let you do that without moving a domain to a third party registrar first. I just shortened that process.
the correct answer I think is cloudflare? I'm a little wary of internet homogenization like this but I haven't the time to worry about this sort of thing for my spare one-off domains
Now we wait until you get burned by Cloudflare. Have we already forgotten the "We've discovered a technical problem with your domain: pay us $150,000 or fuck off"
Not that I'm aware of and this is likely now just a cloudflare worker that returns the IP they already have. I would imagine maintenance is basically zero as its feature complete.
I had an amazing science teacher in high school who brought a potato cannon he had built into to class to show us. Except he called it a "sock cannon" and had loaded it with a large tube sock that he had rolled up. He explained how it worked, how he built it from a few basic plumbing parts anyone could get at the hardware store, how the fuel was just hairspray and how we definitely shouldn't build one ourselves.
Naturally, I went home and decided to construct a much bigger version of the one he showed us. After convincing my parents to drive me to the hardware store, I picked out what I needed -- including 7 feet of PVC. The clerk immediately figured out what I was building and that was the first time I heard the term potato cannon. They seemed concerned that my mom was on board with the whole thing, but I stuck to my guns and said it was a science project and was for shooting socks. I had figured I could wrap the sock around a smaller projectile, but that clerk made me realize I didn't even need the sock.
My friend and I put it all together pretty quickly the next day and set it up in my backyard for testing. I think we probably started with socks, but I honestly can't recall. What I do remember is taking a hacky-sack I had lying around that fit perfectly into the barrel to try and fire it at our back fence. We were using a piezo igniter from a lighter I had disassembled, and it took some trial and error to get the fuel to air mixture just right. It took both of us to operate: one person aimed the barrel, the other operated the trigger. This time, I was aiming and he was lighting. But it just wasn't lighting... so I turned around to try and help and BOOM the cannon went off like, well, a cannon. Except I wasn't pointing at the fence anymore, but well above it. The hacky-sack tore through the branches of several trees before exploding on the metal siding of the house on the opposite side of our block. The sound could probably be heard for blocks.
We both just looked at each other with a mixture of delight and panic before immediately running back into my house. We saw someone come out of the house we hit looking utterly confused, trying to figure out what just happened. We started laughing uncontrollably, realizing how close we were to causing a lot of damage, or possibly injuring someone.
Luckily, nothing every came of that incident, and we made sure later tests were done in a nearby park. We never did attempt to put an actual potato in the thing. Perhaps 7 feet was a little overkill...
PS - Dr. Vince, if you're out there, thank you for being one of the best teachers I've ever had. I'll never forget that class, or that "sock cannon"!
This is a really fun and novel word game! Thanks for sharing it.
I did find one small bug while playing: if you drag a letter off the grid, it doesn't properly update the squares on the grid for that group. The space where you removed the letter stays blank, and the remaining places don't show the recently removed letter as a possibility. I noticed that it works as expected when right-clicking to remove the letter, however.
I couldn't reproduce the bug on three different browsers, so there's probably some kind of an additional constraint for just what triggers the bug. Based on the description there should be an exception printed in the the JS console. If this happens again, I'd appreciate seeing the top of the stacktrace.
(And in the meanwhile, this is is an object lesson that exception reporting to the server has to be included even in an MVP. Anything that one player reports, dozens of others must have seen and not reported.)
I had left the tab open, so I checked the console and there weren't any exceptions, just the output generated from the game being set up. I refreshed the page to test again, and selecting "small" brought up the same puzzle that I previously confirmed the bug with. This time, everything worked as expected though!
I'm using Firefox on Linux which could very well be the culprit here -- I recall an issue with drag and drop that was fixed in a recent changelog. I'll reach out if I run into the issue again.
Slime volleyball is immediately what I thought of when I tried this. We played a lot of that (and slime soccer!) on the lab computers at school (Canada).
I had no idea Pikachu Volleyball existed, but apparently it predates (1997 [0]) Slime Volleyball (1999 [1]) by a few years. I never realized it was essentially a clone.
Oh, there were a zillion of these. Ball physics with gravity are easy/fun to make, so something like volleyball or tennis is pretty much everyone's my-first-game-with-physics project. No coincidence they've all got round heads :)
The one I remember playing growing up was some DOS volleyball game where you played as two hideous little purple Q-bert looking dudes. Looks like it even has its own Wiki page! Dates to 1988. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_Volleyball
Ha, also in Canada and also played a lot of Slime Volleyball in school. I remember the graphics were pulled from a folder of jpegs or gifs, so I substituted all the images with pictures of my friends and other goofy things. Good times.
If you do make it configurable, it's still a good idea to make the default `127.0.0.1` for the reasons @ggpsv mentioned. Since the link automatically opens at `http://localhost:PORT` anyway, it's an easy security win.
I'm not a React dev, so I can't comment on the project itself. Something I noticed on the blog post, though:
The image at the top of the page is served uncompressed at a whopping 18.5MB (9751px * 6132px)! Seems a bit extreme for what amounts to a simple logo and some text.
And the file has a very, very faint gradient background with heavy dithering, so lossless compression won't actually help that much (ECT was only able to shave 13% of the file after minutes). In fact it is one of the worst imaginable cases for raster image formats.
18 MB may be odd, but most pages now have multiple images making each page 10s of MB. That makes all discussions about some framework few hundred kb smaller funny.
[0] https://go.dev/blog/wasi
[1] https://tinygo.org/docs/guides/webassembly/wasi/