STsteveklabnik·Nov 4, 2010
Nope, it's his own library, Bloopsaphone: https://github.com/mental/bloopsaphone (though there maybe some sfxr -> bloops connection I'm not aware of)
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bloopsaphone
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Observed mentions: 2010-08-19 10:59:32 UTC to 2010-11-04 01:10:35 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 16 | 2010-08-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 23 | 2010-08-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 30 | 2010-08-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 6 | 2010-09-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 2010-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 20 | 2010-09-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 27 | 2010-09-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 4 | 2010-10-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 11 | 2010-10-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 18 | 2010-10-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 25 | 2010-10-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 1 | 2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2010-11-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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2 sourcesHow about hacking just for the fun and joy of it? Like the website proposes.
@jacquesm (replying here because it seems I've exceeded the reply limit)
How about hacking on something that really has no purpose other than just being fun. Like a game. It doesn't bring any material rewards, but just stands on itself as something fun to do with a computer. Something like, perhaps, a small c library for writing chiptune-style songs
in c or ruby. you know: the sounds of ataris, gameboys and the like. [1]
[1] http://github.com/mental/bloopsaphone#readme
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