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Mario's Lab
Personal blog · marioslab.io/postsprogramminggamessystems
Mario's Lab is a personal blog at marioslab.io about programming, games and systems. Since 2020, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Rendering Like It's 1996 – Baby's First Pixel”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mario's Lab for its posts on 1996-era rendering with bitmap fonts and DOS, where the author recounts personal experience of that period. The comments only cite the post and do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Rendering Like It's 1996 – Baby's First Pixel3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-03
- Jitterbugs – Why moving your pixels at sub-pixel precision is hard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-12
What Hacker News says?
The author explains their personal connection to 1996 in the first post: https://marioslab.io/posts/rendering-like-its-1996/babys-fir... I was also primarily playing DOS games and writing DOS programs at the time, so this rings true for me. Everyone has different experiences.
Comment linking /posts/rendering-like-its-1996/babys-first-pixel/
on “Rendering like it's 1996 – Bitmap fonts and DOS”Submitted Rendering like it's 1996 – Bitmap fonts and DOS as a story · 3 points
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Comment linking /projects/ledit/
on “Show HN: Ledit – a read-only, client-side only Reddit and HN client”Submitted Control Flow Graph Viewer for MSVC/Clang/GCC Assembly (x86/ARM) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Qak: Humble Beginnings as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Ledit – a read-only, client-side only Reddit and HN client as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering like it's 1996 – Baby's first pixel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jitterbugs – Why moving your pixels at sub-pixel precision is hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jitterbugs – Why moving your pixels at sub-pixel precision is hard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rendering Like It's 1996 – Baby's First Pixel as a story · 1 points
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