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The Pure CSS3 Content Slider
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,666 posts.
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Dithered images and websites (2020)
That's a lot of data. More bytes on average than html, css, fonts, and javascript combined.
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Old graph paper
I found an old pad of graph paper in my father's desk and was reminded of the days of plotting by hand.
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Mac and the iPad: History Repeats Itself
For those of us around Apple for the launch of the 1984 Mac, things are awfully familiar.
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Recreating the button
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched…
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How Useful Is Tufte for Making Maps? (2007)
Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (whi…
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Sprites on the Web
In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the…
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Occluding Contour Breakthroughs, Part 1: A Surprisingly Hard Problem
Exact line rendering of smooth surfaces is harder than anyone would think
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Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler
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Recreating ANSI Art from a Screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that…
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Quantifying Colour
A visual description of the CIE 1931 colour spaces.
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Flags Are Not Languages
Famous Birthdays has been described as a “ Wikipedia for Gen-Z ”. It’s an insight into popularity across the internet of influencers, not just from traditional stage and screen but also social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram.
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Motion sickness accessibility in video games
Motion sickness is an issue that affects up to one third of people. Is there a way we can strive to make gaming more accessible to people who suffer from the more severe forms of motion sickness?
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Streams: Mail 3.0 concept
Introducing concept of Streams, aiming to fix most of email-as-a-medium flaws
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Lightweight API Design in Swift
This week, let’s take a look at a few core language features that enable us to design really lightweight APIs in Swift, and how we can use them to make a feature or system much more capable through the power of composition.
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The Sad State of High Bit Depth GIMP Color Management
Back in 2014, this article was intended to draw attention to several serious problems with babl/GEGL/GIMP color management, all of which revolved around the idea of using sRGB chromaticities to edit non-sRGB images. If you peruse the GIMP developers' list and users' list for the months of October and November 2014…
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
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An elegant bamboo structure in Vietnam
Vo Trong Nghia Architects designed this resort welcome center on Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam out of approximately 42,000 pieces of bamboo, rope, and bamboo pins.
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The History of Album Art
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
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Let’s Make a Bubble Map
My previous Let’s Make a Map tutorial describes how to make a basic map with D3 and TopoJSON ; now it’s time to cover thematic mapping in the form of a proportional symbol map. The simplest symbol is a circle, or bubble , whose area is proportional to the associated data. In this tutorial, we’ll make a bubble map of…
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Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart
This is another experiment in visualizing 24-hour cyclical data. My last post explored a method of linear representation (the Double Time Bar Chart). Linear representations have problems when it comes to showing the cyclical nature of time data (ie there is no start or end of a 24 hour cycle). Inspiration When trying…