io84 1 day ago

Nice. The five-tile paint cursor is an excellent design choice, much easier than the single-tile default you get on apps like Golly etc.

What’s the Hypermedia reference? On mobile your About button is unclickable.

  • bobowski 1 day ago

    Just Explaining the controls - you probably figured it out already :P

  • bobowski 1 day ago

    App is written in Stario + datastar (realtime hypermedia) Fairly cool poc of what’s possible and extreamly simple

fisher-brett 1 day ago

My browser froze up so fast when I visited your page. Had to restart my machine.

  • bobowski 1 day ago

    Oh, no! That was not my intention. Any better after restart?

    If you can hint at what I should try to fix I’ll look int it

jan_m_savage 21 hours ago

This is a great way to introduce new frameworks or tools (i.e. show what can be done with it).

And by far the best GOL I've seen so far.

  • bobowski 15 hours ago

    Glad you like it! And yes, Stario is amazing so if you can - go check it out;)

andersmurphy 1 day ago

Great stuff! What's it running on?

  • bobowski 1 day ago

    It's on Stario (python web framework of my making) Works really well with realtime apps based on Datastar

    Or if you asked about a machine - then probably a potato :D

    • andersmurphy 1 day ago

      What kind of potato?

      • bobowski 1 day ago

        some hetzner vm - dont remember what I ended up having

        I'm probably leaking some memory here because app is eating memory like crazy:

        stario-site-app-1 up 6h 10.17% 347.3MB 495e5c0 ok 7s · 6h

weee322 10 hours ago

left side must be clean!

  • bobowski 7 hours ago

    If you click on stale cells you remove them :)

TZubiri 1 day ago

How crazy that I started working on something similar a week ago.

Question, why does clicking on a single tile cause a cross on a 3x3 to be inputted? (results in that star thing that ends with 4 blinkers) Was this a conscious decision? Or just the result of a vibecoding

  • bobowski 1 day ago

    Trial and error. Single cell was kind of dull and did not really produce enough „chaos”

    • zahlman 1 day ago

      It'd be nice to have a few different options of 3x3 blocks to lay down. In particular, being able to set up a stream of gliders easily.

      • bobowski 1 day ago

        I can loop into that :) Just got to find some spare time to sit to it. Tomorrow's Friday so maybe instead of deploying to prod at work I'll just add this one :D

      • waltbosz 21 hours ago

        What if players could claim a small plot of squares that is frozen in time while you draw your creation. Their changes are visible to all while working on it, and when they unfreeze it, the chaos begins.