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Bed Against The Wall
Personal blog · blog.macuyiko.com · on HN as Macuyikoprogramminggames
Bed Against The Wall is a personal blog at blog.macuyiko.com about programming and games. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Bed Against The Wall's posts on cellular automata, which are relevant to building falling sand simulators. The linked posts are a multi-part series from 2017 and 2018.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Exactly! In fact, Marco -- which the author refers to -- has also been telling this. Since 2011, in fact: http://www.marco.org/2011/07/11/own-your-identity After a month of struggling between Blogger's brain-dead, non-Markup, stuck-in-2001's editor and contemplating a complete switch to Medium, I also decided to just go with a simpler, static blog (running on a stripped down Pelican). As coincidence would have it, I…
Comment linking /post/2013/pelican-switch-follow-up.html
on “Why I Left Medium”Submitted Reverse engineering Weiyun cloud storage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionActually part 4 should be most interesting if you're interested to know how different materials can be mixed. It also looks at Noita: https://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2020/an-exploration-of-cellul... Kudos to the OP article. Although it doesn't go very far the presentation style is very clean and appealing.
Comment linking /post/2020/an-exploration-of-cellular-automata-and-graph-based-game-systems-part-4.html
on “Making a falling sand simulator”Yeah, I'm wondering how The Powder Toy does it (especially since it also has electronics/wires and changeable gravity)... Edit: I found a great intro to the cellular automata approach: https://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2017/an-exploration-of-cellul... https://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2017/an-exploration-of-cellul... https://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2018/an-exploration-of-cellul...
Comment linking /post/2018/an-exploration-of-cellular-automata-and-graph-based-game-systems-part-3.html
on “Making a falling sand simulator”