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  • Nope. But I guess a mirror of WebAssembly Studio would still be the best starting point despite its slow development lately. The WAsm plugin for VSCodium was broken for me too.

    Note that unlike JS, WASM won’t run from file:// URLs; you need to run a local http server or commit to an online repo to run your code. There might be an about:config option to change this but many IDEs (incl. WA Studio, presumably) come with servers for this reason.





  • A forgotten one is webassembly.studio, an in-browser IDE for creating WASM projects with way less pain than other methods. It got discontinued the year I needed it for my school project. It was open source but I failed to rehost it myself and public mirrors only appeared after I spent days trying to make Emscripten work, tore my hair out over WebGL and then finally painfully built the whole thing with CSS (and a bit of JS; yes, it was indeed a disaster).











  • It is great but as a Magna Doodle (basically e-ink but manual and magnetic) kid, I can’t be convinced to switch to drawing only continuous lines on a tank-like interface. Yes, the effective resolution is about an order of magnitude higher so you can fit an entire poem instead of a short sentence but drawing letters is 20 times slower. Also, there is no monopoly, lots of companies make Magna Doodle clones (I never had the real thing either). If I could make a sufficiently dense (1mm) array of powerful inductors, I would use a scanner mechanism and an Arduino to play 30fps Bad Apple!! on it in a timelapse, showing its superiority in speed (5 seconds per frame) and filling dark regions. (No, the inductors cannot be staggered like nozzles in inkjet printer heads because that would produce streaks by disrupting previously blackened cells.)





  • This is Mazačka, Prague track lubrication tram popular among transit fans. It would run on a special route across all major tracks every day. Now that 15T trams are getting fitted with lubrication units, it would have become obsolete but they fitted it with a tank and sprinkler to irrigate green corridors, giving it a purpose and placating the fans. It no longer runs every day but there is a schedule and webcam available. There are probably more purposes to it, I think air quality monitoring, leaf removal, track quality control and of course exclusive rides for fans.