Tadeo

Fueled by chocolatadita. Co-Founder and Artist at MozMesh

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED

it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas

to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text

its called asciline, and here's the trick:

> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet

since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm

however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Frasier: The Video Game. Could never get past the art gallery opening soirée level, though

[Ian George @Scannerian1]

Way ahead of its time…

[Andrés @andresiquiroz]

Pensar que los franceses se ofendieron por esta canción y fue el mayor baño de realidad que tuvieron en los últimos años.

[Spectra @spectraimsim]

have YOU ever wanted to know how to make good buildings in Blender? Well you're in luck- I have just the video for you (link in replies)

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

This is what surfing the Internet was actually like back then. You kids have no idea.

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Thanks for making the game of your dreams with us, Warren.

[Declaration of Memes @LibertyCappy]

Let my man cook. 🔥

😎

[:DecimalCubed:// @DecimalCubed]

figured out a better way of doing faux-volumetric light shafts and figured i should share (simple technical + comparison breakdown in video)

[Tadeo @Tadeocore]

@KillPixelGames Optimization porn. I'm lovin it ❤️

[KillPixel Games @KillPixelGames]

Low poly skybox elements. 169 tris for the volcano (could be lower, but needed more for vertex blending), 416 for the smoke. not bad, considering the scale.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Guy rolls up on a scooter to defend a bike thief from getting caught.

"Stop! You don't need to do this!"

Thief gets up. Tries to steal his scooter.

Reality is the fastest teacher alive.

[Hispanic Nomad | Remote Work, Travel, Growth @hispanicnomad]

South America, explained:

🇦🇷 Argentina: Convinced they're European. Their economy disagrees
🇧🇷 Brazil: The most fun you'll ever have being completely lost
🇺🇾 Uruguay: Argentina but it actually works. Quieter though
🇵🇾 Paraguay: Nobody talks about it. That's why the smart money is here
🇨🇴 Colombia: Everyone who visits says they'll leave in 2 weeks. Nobody leaves in 2 weeks
🇨🇱 Chile: The Germany of South America. Compliment or insult depending on who you ask

[precis0x @precisox]

Un youtuber brasileño le acaba de clavar un puñal a la suscripción de Photoshop.

Se llama PhotoGIMP: un parche gratuito (GPL-3.0) que convierte GIMP en una copia casi idéntica de Photoshop.

Misma interfaz, mismos paneles, mismos atajos de teclado y muchísimo más espacio para tu lienzo. Tus manos ya saben usarlo sin aprender nada nuevo.

¿Por qué está explotando?
- $0 en vez de $276 al año
- Sin cuenta Adobe ni login
- Todo se guarda en tu PC (nada en la nube)
- Compatible con Windows, Mac y Linux
- Se desinstala borrando una carpeta (sin rastro)

Instalación ridículamente fácil: copias 9 archivos y listo. +8.8k estrellas en GitHub y traducciones de la comunidad.

Uso personal y comercial 100% permitido.

[Mr. Buzzoni @polydao]

Atlassian's CEO after firing the engineer who built their $1.79B infrastructure and the guy released a 38-minute breakdown of everything he built, free for anyone to copy

[Puck! @puck_psx]

Reminder that Puck's Pixelizer is avaliable on STEAM! If you want to improve your game's art style, give it a look!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy. That same quarter, Atlassian's revenue hit $1.79 billion, a record.

His name is Vasilios Syrakis. He worked in Sydney on Atlassian's digital plumbing: the system that handles the company's web traffic, made up of about 2,000 programs running across 13 regions of the world. Every time someone clicks on Atlassian's software, the system Syrakis worked on decides which of those servers answers. Atlassian's own engineering blog wrote about his team's work in February 2025. On Sunday, Syrakis walked through the whole architecture on YouTube, every box on the diagram.

The financial picture doesn't fit the layoff story. Atlassian's cloud business grew 29% year over year last quarter. The company has 350,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500. None of that looks like a company that needs to cut a tenth of its staff to "self-fund AI investment," as the CEO put it in March.

In the six months before the layoffs, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes sold 866,145 of his own shares for roughly $134 million. Co-founder Scott Farquhar sold exactly the same number on the same schedule. The board also approved spending $2.5 billion to buy back Atlassian stock from the market, a move that props up the share price. The shares still fell 56% this year. Investors think AI lets companies do more work with fewer employees, and Atlassian charges its customers per employee.

Sam Altman called this practice "AI washing" in February. Of the 1.2 million American jobs cut in 2025, only 55,000 blamed AI. The rest had different reasons, or none at all. The engineer who helped build Atlassian's plumbing is now teaching the internet how it works, for free, because he no longer has a paycheck to protect.

[CR1337 @CR1337]

Funny - somebody built an Ad Blocker that replaces ads with slogans from the 1988's movie 'They Live' by John Carpenter: