Brad P. Taylor
@lardratboy.bsky.social
Past lives include, LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, SillyBytes, Beep Industries, iWin. I like tinkering and playing games. Husband, Father, Nerd and Game Programmer
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Brad P. Taylor
@lardratboy.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Holiday Show: 3 - First uSweat Then uSmell! Ft. Brad P. Taylor
This is a replay of the original episode. You can watch/listen to the original airing and experience other cool and wacky Holiday fun by visiting YouTube and searching WindowsTV's 2022 Holiday Hangout
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#introduction post, if you want to hear about my past at working at Humongous Entertainment and LucasArts on the SCUMM system/tools etc, I did an interview a couple years ago about it ( podcast about game tools from the past century :) soundcloud.com/talkiefile/h...
some fun colors for your feed
October 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
some fun colors for your feed
The latest iteration of 'eight neighbors' can be found here, please give it a whirl and leave feedback. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] Eight Neighbors
a mobile friendly version of eight neighbors with a gemini assist instead of claude...
codepen.io
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The latest iteration of 'eight neighbors' can be found here, please give it a whirl and leave feedback. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
lovely gradients for your timeline.
October 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
lovely gradients for your timeline.
Reposted by Brad P. Taylor
Lovely gradients for the day :-)
September 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Lovely gradients for the day :-)
I updated both my phone and the computer on the same day and for once apple didn't screw my display setup #goodday wow we do live in the future. Not sure I like the latest glass look (old man shakes fist at sky
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I updated both my phone and the computer on the same day and for once apple didn't screw my display setup #goodday wow we do live in the future. Not sure I like the latest glass look (old man shakes fist at sky
sketchfab.com/lardratboy/models 3D projections of games, shader outputs, screen grabs and random data files if you find that sort of thing fun let me know I'm looking for #feedback on the tool I built/used to export them.
3D models by lardratboy
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sketchfab.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
sketchfab.com/lardratboy/models 3D projections of games, shader outputs, screen grabs and random data files if you find that sort of thing fun let me know I'm looking for #feedback on the tool I built/used to export them.
some color for your timeline
August 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
some color for your timeline
toying with dataprism and projections, choose the data type, endianness and projection mode and discover something about your data :-)
August 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
toying with dataprism and projections, choose the data type, endianness and projection mode and discover something about your data :-)
Just what you've always wanted - a tool to 8 fold mirror point clouds, best used with smaller data files (small is defined by your GPU) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
August 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just what you've always wanted - a tool to 8 fold mirror point clouds, best used with smaller data files (small is defined by your GPU) codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Reposted by Brad P. Taylor
📢 Attention: A #Tsunami Advisory has been issued due to an 8.7 earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia. This means dangerous currents are expected to impact #SanFrancisco beaches. Exercise caution, and avoid the shoreline for your safety. 🌊
Follow @sf-emergency.sf.gov for more information and updates
Follow @sf-emergency.sf.gov for more information and updates
July 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
📢 Attention: A #Tsunami Advisory has been issued due to an 8.7 earthquake in Kamchatka, Russia. This means dangerous currents are expected to impact #SanFrancisco beaches. Exercise caution, and avoid the shoreline for your safety. 🌊
Follow @sf-emergency.sf.gov for more information and updates
Follow @sf-emergency.sf.gov for more information and updates
'Eight Neighbors' - my latest gameplay prototype is ready to play. #Claude, #Gemini and I have been collaborating on this puzzle #game. If you play it please let me know what you think.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
[GAME] mobile version of eight neighbors
a mobile version of eight neighbors with a gemini assist instead of claude...
codepen.io
July 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
'Eight Neighbors' - my latest gameplay prototype is ready to play. #Claude, #Gemini and I have been collaborating on this puzzle #game. If you play it please let me know what you think.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
3D or 2d projections of a flat data file - if that is your type of #nerdything go try out my latest tool update. It now supports even more data types, more projections, more fun. Use fractional chunks sizes (0.0625) on old game data/ROM files it is a hoot. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
July 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
3D or 2d projections of a flat data file - if that is your type of #nerdything go try out my latest tool update. It now supports even more data types, more projections, more fun. Use fractional chunks sizes (0.0625) on old game data/ROM files it is a hoot. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Looking for users and #feedback for a chrome extension. Audio Log is a chrome extension that keeps a log of browser tabs that have played audio, that's all it does nothing fancy just pure utility.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio...
the code is here
github.com/lardratboy/A...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio...
the code is here
github.com/lardratboy/A...
Audio Log - Chrome Web Store
Shows a history of tabs that have played audio.
chromewebstore.google.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Looking for users and #feedback for a chrome extension. Audio Log is a chrome extension that keeps a log of browser tabs that have played audio, that's all it does nothing fancy just pure utility.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio...
the code is here
github.com/lardratboy/A...
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/audio...
the code is here
github.com/lardratboy/A...
Updated my chunked bytes to points tool - added tanh normalized float 16/32 support, updated ply exporter, added quantization. Give it a shot if you like looking at reasonably big data files and exporting them as point clouds.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
June 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Updated my chunked bytes to points tool - added tanh normalized float 16/32 support, updated ply exporter, added quantization. Give it a shot if you like looking at reasonably big data files and exporting them as point clouds.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
curious shapes in motion (controls: mouse movement, left click pan, right click zoom)
glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
May 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
curious shapes in motion (controls: mouse movement, left click pan, right click zoom)
glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
glslsandbox.com/e#75464.130
#Claude + #methehuman produced something fun to play with, try it out on numpy files, uncompressed data, #gamedev assets/rom files etc - if you try it out let me know if you find have any #feedback
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
May 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#Claude + #methehuman produced something fun to play with, try it out on numpy files, uncompressed data, #gamedev assets/rom files etc - if you try it out let me know if you find have any #feedback
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Fresh from #Claude4 here is an updated UI and improved ply exporter. #threejs continues to surprise, my m2 mac 32GB can stay interactive up until about 90M points; if you have a beast of a rig I'd be curious what is the upper range of points this thing can handle. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
May 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Fresh from #Claude4 here is an updated UI and improved ply exporter. #threejs continues to surprise, my m2 mac 32GB can stay interactive up until about 90M points; if you have a beast of a rig I'd be curious what is the upper range of points this thing can handle. codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
computers are #bonkers - also #javascript + #threejs is way more #capable than I thought. Try your own moderately large hunk of data, and let me know how capable your machine is. (oh yeah I added .glb export)
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Chunked bytes to points
load big glob of data and look at chunks of it as point clouds...
codepen.io
May 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
computers are #bonkers - also #javascript + #threejs is way more #capable than I thought. Try your own moderately large hunk of data, and let me know how capable your machine is. (oh yeah I added .glb export)
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
I love looking at encoded data as points, wish I had the ram and compute power needed to do this 20+ years ago. (try your own data codepen.io/lardratboy/f...)
May 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I love looking at encoded data as points, wish I had the ram and compute power needed to do this 20+ years ago. (try your own data codepen.io/lardratboy/f...)
B2Ply - exploring data or images as point clouds is my latest tool/distraction. Maybe you will find it entertaining as well.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
B2PLY Tool to export bytes and images as .ply point clouds
B2PLY tool to export bytes and images as a .ply (point cloud)...
codepen.io
April 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
B2Ply - exploring data or images as point clouds is my latest tool/distraction. Maybe you will find it entertaining as well.
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
Claude is still my goto, every so often I revisit month old chats to see how the new models are improving, Claude has improved greatly in the past few months, it's amazing what you can get with just multiple prompts not editing anything by hand, 8-neighbors artifact v.0.5 codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
8 neighbors, bouncy bubble popper (closer but still flawed)
the latest claude 3.7 is getting there, some concepts just fit with the new multiple ai village style coding I've been doing this year so far it does f...
codepen.io
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Claude is still my goto, every so often I revisit month old chats to see how the new models are improving, Claude has improved greatly in the past few months, it's amazing what you can get with just multiple prompts not editing anything by hand, 8-neighbors artifact v.0.5 codepen.io/lardratboy/f...
#vibecoding what was before that #chatcoding (so last month-year..)?!, I've taken to using many chat interfaces (takes a village style development), kind of like carving software out of putty. also I might never execute a piece of code on local silicon again in a few months; exciting and worrying.
March 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
#vibecoding what was before that #chatcoding (so last month-year..)?!, I've taken to using many chat interfaces (takes a village style development), kind of like carving software out of putty. also I might never execute a piece of code on local silicon again in a few months; exciting and worrying.
