Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

Beebo just belly-flopped into the timeline and people are staring. It’s a tiny, hypnotic wave simulator—think digital pond—that you poke and watch ripple. The dev shows off eight visual styles (water! radar! laser!) and even lets you swap the “tank” shape to circles or hexagons for wild patterns. There’s a Linux build, source code for the brave, and a silent demo. Official releases live on itch.io, but this alpha is very “DIY”—perfect for tinkerers, intimidating for everyone else.

But the real splash? The comments. One code sleuth, skulk, spotlights some macro wizardry under the hood—a “generic ‘result’ thingy”—basically a clever copy-paste trick in the C programming language to make code act flexible. They gush that it’s cool, yet trail off with a foreboding “my gut feeling is…” and suddenly the vibe splits: awe at the craft vs. side-eye about long-term sanity. Then, whiplash: another user drops a total non sequitur—“Rest in peace, Sky King.”—and the thread goes from lab coat to meme pool in one breath. Readers are left cackling at the tonal shift while debating whether Beebo is pure chill or a rabbit hole of clever hacks. In classic indie fashion, it’s no points, only waves—and apparently, unexpected vibes