Bryan Braun Keeps Making Things Out of Checkboxes

October 11, 2021 4:02 PM

"Something happened earlier this year where [Bryan] got on a run making checkbox animations and just couldn’t stop." Frontend developer Bryan Braun writes 650 words with lots of pictures and animations and links.
posted by cgc373 (11 comments total)

Rule 34
posted by blakewest at 4:41 PM on October 11, 2021 [2 favorites]

It's like a navigational overlay program for Asteroids™

"Plus, if I keep doing this then I’m going to end up known as “the checkbox guy.” That’s not exactly marketable but I guess it could be worse"

Dude, by some chexmix corn cereal, Reconfigure the grid and you could be the ChexMix guy.
posted by clavdivs at 4:52 PM on October 11, 2021

Funnily, clavdivs, I almost posted a different developer's effort to build an Asteroids game engine instead of this.
posted by cgc373 at 5:16 PM on October 11, 2021 [2 favorites]

i would totally love me some superman eggs
posted by NoThisIsPatrick at 6:39 PM on October 11, 2021

Plus, if I keep doing this then I’m going to end up known as “the checkbox guy.”

I suspect that box has been checked.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 6:40 PM on October 11, 2021 [6 favorites]

it's 1978 mesmerizing.
posted by clavdivs at 9:12 PM on October 11, 2021

I'm terrified watching those. And I feel twitchy.
posted by bendy at 9:34 PM on October 11, 2021 [1 favorite]

I wonder if there's a Life game for it yet...
posted by the Real Dan at 11:56 AM on October 12, 2021

I wonder if there's a Life game for it yet...
posted by cgc373 at 1:07 PM on October 12, 2021

This is ace, but I note that no-one has yet used it as a display mode for Doom.

I hope this will be rectified shortly.
posted by motty at 1:35 PM on October 12, 2021

But of course, motty!
posted by cgc373 at 3:43 AM on October 15, 2021 [1 favorite]