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Max Bittker
maxbittker.github.io · Personal blog · on HN since 2014
Max Bittker is a developer who builds small creative web toys and tools, such as Mojulo, 9-patch borders, and RuneBench, an LLM RuneScape benchmark.
What HN saysHN commenters enjoy the Mojulo math rendering toy, sharing their own formulas, and like RuneBench as an obscure benchmark less likely to be gamed.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Show HN: Mojulo – Pixelated Math Rendering Sandbox Toy8 people · 50 points · first shared 2014 · 37 comments on HN
- 2A tool for making “9-patch” borders4 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 3RuneBench: Agent Benchmark on RuneScape Gameplay Tasks3 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Merging Maps2 people · 56 points · first shared 2017 · 19 comments on HN
- 5NYT First Said2 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Soft Birds1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7New York Times First Said Bot1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 8How to Review Code You Don't Understand1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Draw with Noise1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 10Pond1 people · first shared 2016
- 11Alchemy online1 people · first shared 2024
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OsrsNeedsf2P · 2026-06-12
I love obscure benchmarks, and I feel like I can trust their results a lot more - afterall, they (probably) weren't benchmaxxed. RuneBench[0] is another good example (how well LLMs can play Runescape)
[0] https://maxbittker.github.io/runebench/
pokpokpok · 2014-10-04
linked for the lazy:
https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#ICAxMCooKCgoMTAwLXgpXjIreV4yKV4wL…
fantastic effect! One of my favorites today, thank you. Quick question - do you think that I should refine the gallery formatting to include attribution? It's a bit of a "discovery vs invention" type quandary
pcthrowaway · 2023-09-06
Very cool! Also the first time I've come across https://maxbittker.github.io/broider/ being used in the wild (for the border effect of the navbar).
This was previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34553190 for anyone interested
Tideflat · 2014-10-11
aperiodic · 2014-10-05
More constant tweaking:
x * y * (sin((x+time)/5) * cos((y+time)/5)) * 15 + 3000
http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#IHggKiB5ICogKHNpbigoeCt0aW1lKS81KS…
neuralk · 2014-10-05
Very fun, and the gallery is a nice touch. Here's my contribution:
(r *(2*sin((-A*time)/10))^100) * ((r * r ) % 2)
http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#KHIgKigyKnNpbigoLUEqdGltZSkvMTApKV…
gecko39 · 2014-10-05
zoomy checkerboard by summing a few sinusoids
http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#NDAqKHNpbigoeC01MCkvKDQrc2luKHRpbW…
mbq · 2014-10-05
Fan like+circling around with a long period http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#c2luKCh5KmNvcyh0aW1lLzIxKS01MCkvKH…
leni536 · 2014-10-05
I like interference:
http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#MTI3MDAwMCooY29zKHIvNi10aW1lLzEwKS…
daturkel · 2014-10-05
Thought this came out pretty well:
http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#cip0aW1lKih0aW1lKnNpbih4KS0xL3RpbW…
Speeding it up (increase the first "time" to "time^9") you can see that it eventually "heats up" all the way to black, but it's a nice journey.
Edit: also this one has a nice strobe. You can strobe any pattern you make by replacing a time with some variant of B*sin(time/C) where B and C are appropriately chosen coefficients.
https://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#MTAwKnNpbih0aW1lLzEwKSpyICUgMTAwM…
smusamashah · 2024-11-08
Some other very visual programming environments/languages that I have found. They are different from other visual programming where you connect nodes with lines. These can be categorised differently but I don't what that will be.
Piet https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
Turnstyle https://jaspervdj.be/turnstyle/ https://github.com/jaspervdj/turnstyle
Markovjunior https://github.com/mxgmn/MarkovJunior
Cellpond https://cellpond.cool/ https://github.com/TodePond/CellPond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvlsJ3FqNYU
Imagegram https://zaratustra.itch.io/imagegram
Color Code http://colorcode.bananabanana.me/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5hy9xsqKc Color Code 2 http://colorcode2.bananabanana.me/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTvvX4sjZWw Splaty Code http://splatycode.bananabanana.me/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_e85lAKOs (By Muril Polese https://github.com/murilopolese/ http://gallery.bananabanana.me/)
Alchemy Online https://maxbittker.github.io/alchemy-online/ https://github.com/MaxBittker/alchemy-online