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24 alternatives to Descriptive - 23: One is just the other in reverse with Jafar Husain
Jafar Husain takes us from batch programming Doom to Falcor
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Descriptive - 23: One is just the other in reverse with Jafar Husain launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I sometimes pick up random projects just because I can, this was one of those times. I made it as a week long project a while back this year but never shared here, so thought to go for it haha. I created a game inspired by Doom and the backrooms called The Backdooms under 2.4kb in minified html. (for reference, this entire post would be around 1.8kB haha) I had to use a not popular way of using GZip with Zlib headers (had to write my own script for compressing it, also in the repo) to eventually convert it a size 40 QR code that works right in your browser using Decompressionstream API. This…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Guillermo Rauch talks HyperTerm
2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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Llewellyn Falco on why paired programming is critical
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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DHH talks software, evolving Basecamp, and "unicorns"
2016 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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Apr 2026 · spectrelang.org · its alternatives →
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Paul and Edith discuss the fallout from left-pad
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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A startup/TED Talk inspired improv game.
2016 · oneslidedeck.com · its alternatives →
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HyperDev, the fastest way to bang out code and run it online
2016 · stackoverflow.blog · its alternatives →
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A show about Developer Experience (DX) Design
2016 · heavybit.com · its alternatives →
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Paul & Sean discuss the current state of JavaScript
2016 · spec.fm · its alternatives →
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How to help more people discover software development
2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →
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The world through the lens of software.
2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →
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funny and wholesome slice of life coding comics
2020 · bogwarts.github.io · its alternatives →
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After 6 years of coding almost every day, I'm finally ready to show HN. There's a lot going on here, looking forward to your guy's feedback.
Jul 2026 · jaclang.org · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm thrilled to share with you think, a command-line tool that I developed while diving back into the programming scene. For the past few years, my focus had shifted from hands-on programming to managerial roles, my last one being at Affirm (I started Affirm's Polish office). However, I recently left my job to revisit my passion for coding and see if I could still write code that works. Not to mention that with what is currently going on in AI if you are a developer this probably the best possible time for a sabbatical in human history :) My first attempt was with LangChain, but I…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cause "You're absolutely right" is probably absolutely wrong
Apr 2026 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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- 18CG
2015 · battle.hexlet.io · its alternatives →
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A game made with vanilla JS and HTML5 Canvas. The goal is to trap bouncing balls by drawing boundaries over them but the balls hate your cursor so they will try to run away. --There is a paint pollock option. It's inspired by jackson pollock, the painter. if you let it run for 5,6 minutes, the screen will turn into a pollock painting (-ish). --It was a fun personal project.
Sep 2026 · deepanwadhwa.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey, ever wanted to fully understand or tweak a nostalgic game that you love? So, I’m documenting my journey on matching decompiling a retro game, step by step, using AI and self-made tools. Three chapters are done, and the fourth is in progress. Matching decompilation is a fun reverse engineering challenge that paves the way to learn more about a game and fully customize it. Let me know your thoughts about my posts and the VS Code extension that I'm developing, called Kappa! Have you ever heard of matching decompilation, by the way?
2025 · gambiconf.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Aymen, and I'm here with Kenichi. Some years ago, I launched a side project. A newsletter called DevOpsLinks, then a 2nd newsletter (Shipped), then a third one (Kaptain). These 3 newsletters are now part of a bigger project that I called FAUN (https://faun.dev). We have newsletters, a Slack team chat, and a job board, but I had a feeling that something is missing... it's a podcast, right :) Last year, I discussed the idea of creating a podcast with a member of FAUN (who is Kenichi btw), but we were not really ready. That's why it took us some months to start…
2020 · its alternatives →
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I spent the past week implementing a 1 Layer Neural Net and training it on MNIST within the visual scripting language provided by scratch.mit.edu. It was tedious, but ultimately not too difficult. The code runs incredibly slowly, so much so that 64 samples of MNIST takes 5+ hours to train on my machine. There were a lot of little mini challenges that were fun to overcome (implementing softmax was very tricky). If you're interested, I encourage you to try and improve on it! More details in the linked blog post.
2024 · bell-boy.github.io · its alternatives →
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Github Wrapped, connect GitHub, get your year in review
Dec 2025 · github-wrapped.xyz · its alternatives →
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There are exactly two audiences that I can think of that might understand the punchlines which I am rather proud of one is in Las Vegas and the other is right here, which I can reach from my home in Texas. So please check it out. https://killsignal.net/El_User/dj_defrag_and_uid_zero-el_use... If there is any interest, I can say more. Enjoy!
Aug 2026 · its alternatives →
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