Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
binarygit 2 hours ago [-]
THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!
flawn 4 hours ago [-]
I discovered this page like back in 2015 and I am grateful to find it on hackernews again, I forgot even its name in the meantime.
Bjorkbat 3 hours ago [-]
Finding out that this is over 10 years old has made me profoundly sad. Despite the age of LLMs arguably unlocking massive amounts of productivity and agency for developers and non-developers alike, it feels as though we are living in a dark age of creativity on the web, maybe even a dark age for computer culture in general.
yreg 2 hours ago [-]
New interesting artsy web projects are being posted on hn all the time. neal.fun is an obvious example but there are plenty of others as well.
I'm keenly aware, I have a pretty extensive collection of Hacker News bookmarks. It's hard to articulate why I think these are different, but I think the best way to put it is that cachemonet feels a lot more avant garde, and perhaps also a reflection of a very particular form of "web culture" that has no clear successors.
People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aesthetically inspiring". For that reason I'm kind of lukewarm on neal.fun.
EDIT: so I think a better way to describe it is that when artists experiment with technology, you get something like cachemonet. When developers experiment with technology, you get a web experiment that challenges conventional notions of what you can do with the web, but with varying degrees of creativity. I think terra.layoutit.com is best appreciated by other web devs who can appreciate the sheer amount of work required to figure out how to render a terrain map in CSS, but otherwise it's basically just a tool to generate terrain height maps, and not a particularly good one. Generating terrain maps in CSS is not a feature, but a handicap.
Biggest surprise here is that this website is still around. I was browsing it 20 years ago
ricardobeat 6 hours ago [-]
Cool stuff, but why is there an entire loading screen and intro animation, then a play button, when it could just link to a gif?
Made me lose interest in browsing real quick
Jordan-117 1 hours ago [-]
It's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.
fredley 5 hours ago [-]
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.
observationist 4 hours ago [-]
2010 OG account. He's been holding in this opinion for over a decade, waiting for his moment.
harel 7 hours ago [-]
I don't know what this is, but I like it
ale42 6 hours ago [-]
There's a (not so visible) info button top right. It says:
cachemonet is an exploration into the serendipitous collisions that
occur between two randomly generated arrays. the arrays contain a mix
of custom and found .gifs sourced from tumblr and are set to
music. the output is autonomous, generative, art made possible through
curation & code.
You can even turn on sound...
pocksuppet 4 hours ago [-]
and it sounds like "cash money"
ale42 4 hours ago [-]
That probably depends on what is being displayed... at some point I had sounds of USB connect/disconnect (possibly from the Windows 7 era).
1f60c 3 hours ago [-]
I think GP is referring to the name of the site, which sounds like "cash money" if you pronounce it with a thick American accent.
keepamovin 7 hours ago [-]
I'm so delighted you guys are discovering this for the first time. It's been around for a long time. I think I first saw it in 2011.
MarcelOlsz 7 hours ago [-]
You're the man now, dawg.
m_w_ 5 hours ago [-]
An all-time classic, glad to see it's been unchanged for at least a decade
And you dip dip, dip...
m000 5 hours ago [-]
How can I self-host this?
flawn 4 hours ago [-]
Just for the legacy of this, I need to make sure this never vanishes
Song name is: Windowdipper from ꪖꪶꪶ ꪮꪀ ꪗꪖꪶꪶ by Jib Kidder
https://jibkidder.bandcamp.com/track/windowdipper
Somehow reminded me about the biobak website from 2010s, unfortunately only available in the archive now, but still functional.
https://ambient.garden/
https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
https://terra.layoutit.com/
https://ambigr.am/hall-of-fame
https://autism-simulator.vercel.app/
People are experimenting with what you can do on the web, but the experiments aren't very "aesthetically inspiring". For that reason I'm kind of lukewarm on neal.fun.
EDIT: so I think a better way to describe it is that when artists experiment with technology, you get something like cachemonet. When developers experiment with technology, you get a web experiment that challenges conventional notions of what you can do with the web, but with varying degrees of creativity. I think terra.layoutit.com is best appreciated by other web devs who can appreciate the sheer amount of work required to figure out how to render a terrain map in CSS, but otherwise it's basically just a tool to generate terrain height maps, and not a particularly good one. Generating terrain maps in CSS is not a feature, but a handicap.
Made me lose interest in browsing real quick
And you dip dip, dip...
good times
There's an actress called Cashae Monya
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm13392714/