2026-02-13 UTC
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fnhipster_ My goal wasn’t to stream video; it had to be all text. So I made a private streamer page that’s entirely JavaScript in the browser. It captures webcam video and draws it to an HTML canvas, then uses the image's brightness to convert it to ASCII characters. There’s some math (that I worked out with Cursor AI, to be honest) that handles dimensions and scaling. Those ASCII strings are sent over a WebSocket to a worker I run