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A new value of the display property has landed in Chrome Canary and Firefox Nightlies. In the Editor’s Draft of the CSS Display Module Level 3, display: flow-root is defined as: “The element generates a block container box, and lays out its contents using flow layout. It always establishes a new block formatting…
Google Maps and Apple Maps . At first glance, the columns below look very similar...
Once a month, I download roughly 25 gzipped (.gz) files from Apple—these are our Mac App Store sales reports, with one file for each App Store region. I could have Safari expand these files (via the "Open 'safe' files after downloading' item in its preferences), but I prefer to leave that option unchecked. (Why? I…
In 1997 I received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for work I had done on procedural texture. For example, the NYU Torch on the right is made entirely from procedural textures (except for the text along the bottom). The flame, background, and metal and marble handle…
Monica Dinculescu's blog
Retronator Do It Yourself
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
Personal blog of John Novak
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DOOM pioneered fundamental changes in game design and mechanics back in 1993, it was a world-wide phenomenon which propelled to fame iconic figures …
The design of the camera body evolved from a simplified massing of functional elements to refinements based on ergonomics and scale, as I learned more about the strength of the material.
CSS Locks are a Responsive Web Design technique that lets you transition smoothly between two property values when the screen gets smaller or bigger.
Haiku uses a custom vector image format to store icons. This is surprising both because most OSes consider bitmaps to be totally sufficient to represent icons and because there are plenty of vector graphics formats out this (e.g. SVG). The goal of the Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF) is to make vector icon files as…
Hallå! Welcome to my first game devlog. I figured I'd start out talking about graphics, as they are a large source of anxiety for first-time developers. And not without reason! Everyone is a judgy bastard when it comes to how your low-budget game is presented. Oh sure, it's become easier for a solo developer to mask…
Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.
Once upon a time I was reading a Popular Mechanics article, the title of which eludes me. Something about playing different music for different parts of a…
This is the second post of a series on practical game-design techniques. Here’s the first. In my years designing games, my methods have evolved from Games-Randomly-Emerging-from-the-Inchoate…
Introduction The Problem with Colemak Back to the Drawing Board Introducing the Workman Layout Pros and Cons Test Results Key Usage Visualization Tests Using Popular Books Downloads Recommended Key…
