Oh hey you're UW SE2011! I'm UW SE2021 o/

Small world

:(

The idea of moving on from programming makes me sad. I suppose for some people it's a job, but to me giving up programming would be like giving up on writing poetry or playing music.

TJ has already produced more open source software (much of it still in use, despite being dated if not maintained by others at this point) than 90% of devs will write in their entire careers (between open and closed source), so I think if anyone has earned it, it's him.

I 100% agree that if TJ wants to retire from programming, he should. Pressuring him to do something he doesn't want to do is wrong.

My comment more of a personal comment. Imagine you're an amateur painter, and you enjoy painting. You live in the same era as Michelangelo, and you admire him. But, one day Michelangelo announces he no longer enjoys painting, and decides to become a sailor instead. And, you realize there might be a day you won't enjoy painting either.

and there is something to be said about sailors who may or may not have retired from programming of course

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with being a sailor. It's more a fear of change — thinking you'll always enjoy painting, and then realizing there might be a day when the passion is gone.

I once upon a time burned out on photography and look where it led me. People change, and we should celebrate it.

Where… where did it lead you?

Thanks for sharing. I'm glad he's still posting.

Back in university I looked up to Feross, TJ and Matt Deslauriers. Fond memories of hacking together a Node.js project at a hackathon and launching something on a free Heroku dyno.

Thanks for sharing, are you viewfinderjs from this thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30433104#30436865

Super curious how you got that many stars on your repository, that's impressive!

Thank you. Yeah my strategy has been:

Build. Post. Repeat.

Yeah we didn't anticipate somebody sharing their room in the comments — we're trying our best to moderate that room.

Fingers crossed the board they went on was the papercraft & origami board.

Interesting research question: how to build features to make sharing control less chaotic and potentially moderate abuse.

But the core experience is great. Works flawlessly even on an iPhone. Congrats!

Yeah we kept the MVP lean and didn't add chat or audio/video calling. Our goal (which we're not meeting) is to keep the Three.js example line count below 200.

https://github.com/hyperbeam/threejs-example

We'll probably make a new project which is more of a product and less of a code example in the future.

Looks good so far, looking forward to seeing more :)

For anyone looking for the Github repo (it's open source): https://github.com/hyperbeam/threejs-example

That approach relies on an iframe to load 3rd party sites. Sadly, this won't work for a lot of websites like news.ycombinator.com.

Furthermore, an iframe cannot be synchronized across participants. If you and I load YouTube in an iframe, it's not guaranteed that our videos are sync'd.

With Hyperbeam, you can embed any website and the content is sync'd. Think of it like sitting beside somebody with a computer.

Spoke to Amby, he said it might be because we throw away frequencies above 10 kHz. We'll try to fix the bug today, thanks again for catching this.

We actually started out as a clone of Rabb.it in December 2019, we went by the name "Tutturu.tv": https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/efkznp/fydp_tutt...

The watch party website is still up at https://watch.hyperbeam.com, we're the biggest Rabb.it alt that offers virtual browsers.

Without Rabb.it, we wouldn't be here haha