Townscaper – Town Generator Game

This summer Oskar Stålberg released his game Townscaper (see video above). Build quaint island towns with curvy streets, small hamlets, soaring cathedrals, canal networks, or sky cities on stilts. Build the town your dreams, block by block. No goal. No real gameplay. Just plenty of building and plenty of beauty. That’s it. Yesterday he surprised …

SVGcode: a PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics

Thomas Steiner has released a tool named SVGcode. It’s a PWA to convert raster images to SVG vector graphics. SVGcode is a Progressive Web App that lets you convert raster images like JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, etc. to vector graphics in SVG format. It uses the File System Access API, the Async Clipboard API, …

Adobe Photoshop in the browser thanks to WASM/Emscripten, Web Components, and Project Fugu

At (the ongoing) Adobe MAX 2021, Adobe announced that Photoshop and Illustrator are coming to the web, with Photoshop already in beta. Your collaborators can open and view your work in the browser and provide feedback. You’ll also be able to make basic edits without having to download or launch the apps. It’s not the …

Made with WebAssembly

After several Twitter threads on highlighting use cases, projects, and companies in production using WebAssembly, myself and a few other Wasm communitty members thought it’d be a great idea to have a dedicated place to find projects using WebAssembly, and highlight what WebAssembly can be used for! Some interesting stuff to find in there, like …

WebAssembly: To the Browser and Beyond!

Presentation by Patrick Hamann as given at performance.now(): WebAssembly (or Wasm) is a compilation target for the open web; often considered a hard-to-approach performance optimisation for your browser applications – but it promises to be so much more than that! In this talk we’ll debunk some myths about WebAssembly and explore what it is and …