I'm the Founder at https://shaders.com. Not frustrating at all, and Basement is an excellent team. Shader Lab looks like a solid tool for exploration and and creating effects, nothing slop about it (although I love the word "slopfork", that's new).
Our platform goes above and beyond that with a large collection of Pro presets and a unique capability in our component-based approach with reactive props, and of course broader framework support. All that, and our new MCP workflow for having your agent prompt effects, and we feel confident in our place in the market.
Would recommend checking out both Shader Lab AND shaders.com to anyone interested in creative shader effects for the web.
There are dozens of DCCs where you have a UI where you stack things (over-compositing, bottom to top).
And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters.
If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter is a 'slopfork' of <insert any DCC that had this pattern and existed before and has whatever anyone may consider 'less sloppy'>.
so does Photoshop and thousand other visual editing tools. Hardly a reason to claim it to be a copy.
Also "slopfork" seems harsh considering it seems limited, but well designed imo.
Why are they recommending a China Miéville book which won’t be out til the end of the year? I mean, it’ll probably be good, his stuff usually is. But I don’t think even reviewer copies have gone out yet?
And while Ann Leckie’s Translation State is great, I think you pretty much have to read the Ancillary Whatever books first; otherwise it’ll just be baffling.
Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points
I made this! Excited to be featured on HN again, and thanks for all the nice comments. I built it for myself really but happy others enjoy it. It uses nuxt/supabase/netlify functions. Happy to answer any questions either here or on my contact form https://www.blackspike.com/contact/
ha same! I just last week started building an app for myself where I can cross post to mastodon and bluesky (& twitter is in progress, threads doesn't seem to have an api yet). https://grater.app (screenshot at https://imgur.com/lyefPGv )
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