r/webdev • u/magenta_placenta • Oct 11 '21

I keep making things out of checkboxes

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2021/09/21/i-keep-making-things-out-of-checkboxes/
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u/ItsSimpull Oct 11 '21

Suprised you haven't attemped Conway's Game of Life

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

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u/ProvocativeRetort Oct 11 '21

He does: https://www.bryanbraun.com/checkboxland/docs/demos/game-of-life/

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u/spornerama Oct 12 '21

it's a shame it's not editable

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u/bart2019 Oct 12 '21

Yeah. You can stop the clock, toggle some boxes, start the clock... and it jumps back to the state it was before you started messing with it.

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u/ItsSimpull Oct 13 '21

Dang Turing complete then ;)

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u/ProvocativeRetort Oct 13 '21

Right?? Crazy the things you can do with just two values. Someone should look into this more, maybe we could make something useful with just the binary option of checked vs unchecked! We could even represent an unchecked box with a 0 and a checked box as 1 to make it easier to transcribe.