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I mostly wanted to prototype hardware ideas quickly, with as little as possible between writing a circuit and watching it run. There are already solid embedded HDLs in general-purpose languages i.e.

Here's a little game I (and my buddy Claude, cf. the obvious CSS gradient tell) set up to explain to my kids some of things we were working on at work.

With the World Cup around the corner, and being a football fan, I went looking for apps that would give me a detailed overview of groups, matches categorized by group or team, a daily timeline of when games happen that day (especially useful for us in Europe, since some games run pretty late), and

I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently. Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance.

So I made one for ourselves and there are now a few other groups using it. It has all the basics in a minimal UI and is game-agnostic.

Inspiration: I was watching Billie Eilish's concert film HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, and during song "Ocean Eyes" there was a visual effect of waves. It sparked an idea â€âÃÂÂ

Many of them had annoying ads and were not elderly friendly. I started to vibe code a game collection in flutter and tested them with my grandma and friends.

In 2014, Scoragora was a free, ad-free prediction game for the Brazil World Cup. I found the old HN post and revived the idea out of nostalgia.