Rik Roots
@rikroots.bsky.social
Coder. Poet. Occasional Human. Responsible for the Scrawl-canvas JS library - responsive, interactive and more accessible HTML5 canvas elements.
I'm here mainly for the cute cat memes!
I'm here mainly for the cute cat memes!
Oh nice! Those islands really jiggled as I scrolled up/down.
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Oh nice! Those islands really jiggled as I scrolled up/down.
Of course, things go wrong. My canvas library doesn't use Fancy Things - like WebGL or WebGPU or WASM or even web workers - so everything the browser can't magically "hand off somewhere" gets done in the CPU, which can lead to disaster. Which turn out to be very pretty Art in their own right!
January 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Of course, things go wrong. My canvas library doesn't use Fancy Things - like WebGL or WebGPU or WASM or even web workers - so everything the browser can't magically "hand off somewhere" gets done in the CPU, which can lead to disaster. Which turn out to be very pretty Art in their own right!