Ben Holmen

Big tall anti-entropy machine. he/him

Draw on my crazy kilopixel:

[Ben Holmen @benholmen]

There are a lot of problems in the world but we're not talking about a huge one: how much your shower control just plain sucks

So I wrote a short manifesto...
https://t.co/Qx74eZE5D7

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@markjaquith I didn't want to resent keeping it online, or chase some dopamine in the long tail. I think it's better this way - if I have a fun idea or an interesting colab, it can come back in a new way. Or maybe it will just be cool wall art and good memories!

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Season one of my Kilopixel art project is complete! I wrote about what a surreal ride it was:

https://t.co/CEeojfW2O1

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I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)

Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at https://t.co/4kifyplSAe!

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@boggybot Thanks Bogdan!

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I've had the good fortune to be #1 on HN all day and it's been driving traffic to my article and to kilopx dot com. The article has 5x the traffic as the app, but traffic to the article is slowing while the app traffic is increasing.

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Meanwhile, someone drew a HN logo and ol' Kilopixel is happily flipping the pixels

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I suspect the article will start to fall off pretty quickly once it drops off HN, and I'm hopeful that the app itself will kee climbing as it's spread more places.

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@branickweix Now we're talking!

[Ben Holmen @benholmen]

I built a ridiculous 1000 pixel display that takes an hour to draw an image and I'm now asking the internet to draw on it (what could go wrong?)

Please submit some 40×25 pixel art at https://t.co/4kifyplSAe!

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@aschmelyun Thanks for the brainstorm session!

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@markjaquith I love to see it 🤝🏻

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@willking Would love to chat about this! I caught your Laracon talk and I think we'd have a ton of fun

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If you want to read much more, I did a writeup on my blog that goes into a lot of the details.

https://t.co/3o3YzOCvct

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This has been a real passion project for me for six years. It's nuts. I shouldn't have done it, but I did. So please reward me, and go play with it!

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

✌🏻 see you on Bluesky

https://t.co/eNC1NBLFD8

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@_x7ryan No time like the present, man!

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Do I know anyone who's made a Socialite provider and wants to hack on a new (redacted) provider with me?

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@gonedark Is this still the right place to start?

https://t.co/DH4RO2hAcS