Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,666 posts.
“Margin collapse” has a dastardly reputation, one of the trickier parts of CSS. Fortunately, it gets a lot easier once you learn a few rules! In this tutorial, we take a deep dive into the governing principles, and learn how to use them to our advantage.
I’ve been involved with PyCon India since the first edition of the conference in 2009 . This year, I was invited to give the keynote at the 2017 edition of the event in Delhi. This post is about some personal experiences preparing the speech and making the slides.
An interactive explaination of how QR codes work and techniques for rendering artistic QR codes
iOS 7 throws CSS a curveball.
Chronicling the design of the spacecraft and systems depicted in the book, Delta-v, by Daniel Suarez:
When plotting overlapping elements with a defined alpha (opacity), I had always thought about it as an additive process with results clamped to not exceed 1.
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?
Implementing strict three point perspective is ridiculous. You’ll never need it. Let’s do it anyway.
What this function does is to give you a lumninance-correct grayscale version of any matplotlib colormap. I've found this useful for quickly checking how my plots might appear if printed in black and white, but I think it's probably even more useful for stoking the flame of the internet's general rant against jet .
Pannini: A New Projection for Rendering Wide Angle Perspective Images Thomas K. Sharpless, Bruno Postle and Daniel M. German; International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics, London, June 2010.
On why senior individual-contributor designers shouldn't have to move into management to grow—and how the industry can build a real IC leadership track.
Back in August 2020 , Google began testing a seemingly Apple Maps-inspired map style that added darker and deeper landcover colors throughout the world:
The truly No JavaScript web component.
Dynamicland is a non-profit that resides somewhere between an academic research lab and a Silicon Valley startup, between physical and digital, and between computing’s distant past and its future.
During the introduction of the iPhone X a hilarious gif made the Twitter rounds, showing a list scrolling past the new notch.
Hey! There is a followup post here! Google, the King of Search. Gmail, the darling of geeks everywhere for mail. Links: Gmail; Yahoo; Cyrus-IMAP; Squirrel Mail I am my family’s IT Director fo…
I get the content in Word, copy into the various boxes in the CMS and then see how it looks. Normally I spot a few typos, or it doesn’t appear where I want it to, then I have to go back and find the article again – which isn’t so bad, it’s normally at the top. The real pain is when I have to add another link to that…
Unlike RGB, the CIELab color space And the more modern variants like CIECAM02 and Oklab. is designed to be perceptually uniform. This is a broad goal, which roughly means that we would like changes in the numbers to match same changes that we observe when performing various studies of human perce
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
There is a ten-foot long alcove in our lower-level hallway — we call it the gallery . This is the one place in our house I can hang whatever I want (i.e., my own art) and switch it out whenever I want. To facilitate this, I installed a hanging system — basically a slotted rail mounted near the ceiling, with sliding…
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Tommy Edison shows how he uses Instagram on the iPhone. So we’ll just take a picture of the crew. Why I’m holding the thing up to my face like I can look throug
