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Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes
Learn the basics of web design in 4 minutes with this interactive tutorial.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 59 posts.
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The Daredevil Camera
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…
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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time
The first episode of the Mojoptix video podcast: the invention of a Digital Sundial !
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Web fonts, boy, I don't know
Monica Dinculescu's blog
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What every coder should know about gamma
Personal blog of John Novak
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How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame
DOOM pioneered fundamental changes in game design and mechanics back in 1993, it was a world-wide phenomenon which propelled to fame iconic figures …
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Rotoscoped Animation of Filmed Parkour
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…
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Pixels and voxels, the long answer
Retronator Do It Yourself
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format
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…
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The 100:10:1 method – the heart of my game design process
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…
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Ken's Academy Award: Noise and Turbulence
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…
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More Chinese Mobile UI Trends
Another look through mobile UI design patterns in the Middle Kingdom.
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