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JS1k Winners – Top Ten Entries
Posted by Howard Yeend in javascript on September 26, 2010
So, the JS1k contest is over and the winners are finally in! What a fantastic event this has been, massive thanks to all the organisers and judges, and to all the entrants for putting on a great show, I can’t think of a single entry I wouldn’t have been proud to have written myself, and some of the entries were simply amazing.
The judges did a brilliant (and difficult!) job of ranking the entries and choosing their top ten. I’ve compiled the entries into a list below, and you can click through to the demos themselves from here. I read that the official site will be updated tonight, so check back at js1k.com for the full scoop :)
If this is the first you’ve heard of the contest, head over to js1k.com and browse through all the entries. I also compiled a list of all the tweet-sized entries, as I’m buying a copy of Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript:The Good Parts as a prize for the best tweetable entry. Have a look at my own tweetable entries too.
Complete list of #JS1k tweet-sized entries
Posted by Howard Yeend in javascript on September 11, 2010
The #JS1k contest ended last night. It challenged web coders to write some interesting JavaScript in 1 kilobyte (1024 bytes) or less. That script is put into a basic html page which includes a canvas element and not much else. It’s a pretty crazy challenge – 1k is not a lot of code – and there are some really clever micro-optimisations going on in some of the entries.
But the homepage also states “Bonus points if your submission fits in one tweet ;)“. Now that’s a whole other level of madness. Useful code in 140 bytes? You’ve barely enough room to find the canvas element, let alone do anything with it!
So I decided to make an (unofficial) list of all the entries that are or claim to be tweet-sized. The current js1k homepage doesn’t offer a way to filter entries by size (hint, hint!), so I think this is pretty useful. I listed my own tweetable entries in an earlier post.
Also, I’m giving a copy of Douglas Crockford’s “Javascript: The Good Parts” as a prize for entry that the judges deem is the best of the tweetable ones. I think it’s a fitting prize, packing a whole lot of awesome into a thin package ;)
Some tweetable #js1k demos
Posted by Howard Yeend in javascript on August 31, 2010
JS1k is consuming me at the moment. I saw this entry by strager and it inspired me to push for a tweetable (<=140 byte) demo based on his.
By dropping the save/restore and alpha blending features, I was able to come up with a few candidates which I think look fairly pretty.
Unlike my previous allRGB and rot13 entries, where I had a definite goal in mind, here I’m really just playing with parameters until something cool appears on the screen. Which is kinda neat, it recaptures that innocent experimental spirit which was what first attracted me to programming when I was a kid.
js1k: an allRGB entry in <1k of JavaScript
Posted by Howard Yeend in javascript on August 30, 2010
It’s contest season! The An Event Apart 10k JavaScript app contest has just ended (my entry got 2/5), there’s a node.js contest, and the JS1k contest is ending on Sept 10th. JS1k is a much purer contest, disallowing any external libraries, while the 10k contest allowed things like jQuery and external web services. As puts it, js1k is “An exercise in constraint, resulting in a kind of executable haiku”.
For js1k, I’ve entered a port of my PHP allRGB entry. The allRGB project is a great idea in itself – create an image which contains every possible colour in the RGB space exactly once. That’s 256*256*256 colours (=16777216), in a 4096×4096 image. Quite a challenge for PHP, and certainly not the kind of thing you’d attempt in JavaScript, right? ;D
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