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Making a Video of a Single Window

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PHONK is a coding playground for new and old Android devices.

Create scripts rapidly from your phone or using the remote Web Editor on your computer using Javascript. The API is simple and extensive. GUI, audio, graphics, Bluetooth BLE, Arduino, OSC, MIDI, and much more.

PHONK
Self-contained Creative scripting toolbox for new and old Android devices
GitHub - victordiaz/PHONK: PHONK is a coding playground for new and old Android devices
PHONK is a coding playground for new and old Android devices - victordiaz/PHONK

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Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones

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Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer's classic Doctor Who theme [using] modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop.

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So, here’s a bit of a mystery: Why does TeamViewer – the popular remote desktop program – install a font it doesn’t use on your computer?

TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
A weird almost unreadable font file bundled with TeamViewer for Windows software lets website detect if you’ve installed the software. Raises privacy concerns.

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Where Browsers Come From The economics around browsers, and what we should think about as we move forward.

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One of many default browser styles that I always change!

All browsers add an 8px margin on the body element – it’s part of the w3c-recommended default stylesheet which browsers generally use as a starting point for their own ‘user agent’ styles. But why 8px? Where does that come from?

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Nifty.

MacintoshPi is a small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active Internet connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi.

GitHub - jaromaz/MacintoshPi: A small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi.
A small project that allows running full-screen versions of Apple's Mac OS 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 with sound, active online connection and modem emulation under Raspberry Pi. - GitHub - jarom...

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Defensive CSS Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

Defensive CSS
Practical CSS and design tips that helps in building future-proof user interfaces.

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A small tool (rsspls) to generate RSS feeds from web pages that lack them. It runs on BSD, Linux, macOS, and more.

GitHub - wezm/rsspls: Generate RSS feeds from websites
Generate RSS feeds from websites. Contribute to wezm/rsspls development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🙈 I do not need more tech. I do not need more tech!

Pocket Reform is a 7 inch mini laptop from MNT Research. We condensed the best features of MNT Reform into a smaller, lighter, and more affordable device while adding some new exciting details.

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What would a Chromium-only Web look like?

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Computing in Crip Time

Computing in Crip Time
A reflection on user experience and disability.

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Yes getting it all up and running is challenging, but when it works it feels like magic and the enthusiasm of the community makes it worth it!

We have the technology to implement a slow social network of personal sites. I’m excited to keep playing with that code. But proving the concept is not the same as actually making it easy & accessible in a way that can replace platforms.

Miriam Eric Suzanne » Am I on the IndieWeb Yet?
I haven’t signed to any major web labels.

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🥳 though I can't help feeling uncomfortable by how smooth Clarus is.

Did you know that with macOS Ventura, Clarus the Dogcow has at long last returned home?

Clarus Returns Home
Did you know Clarus the Dogcow is hiding in the macOS Ventura beta?

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Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?)

Game Design Mimetics (Or, What Happened To Game Design?) - kyle kukshtel's game dev/design blog
Exploring recent trends in game design to try and figure out why everything is Fine and why that's terrible.

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For my own reference, to find/replace the linked mastodon post for a post on Known in MySQL:

update entities set contents = replace(contents, 'old-post-id', 'new-post-id');

I might want to add the mastodon link to the post edit UI to be a bit more robust...

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Love the pixel art on this. The technical side of things is super interesting too!

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31701026

A Trail Tale
Tag along with me while I hike the Appalachian Trail, in real-time.

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New episodes of Airquotes the Podcast Airquotes from the May 2022 are up!

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Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll

Hamburger Footer: Reaching the Bottom of Infinite Scroll
Infinite-scroll (endlessly scrolling websites) can be annoying when you want to get to the footer section. A common technique is to move the footer to the bottom of the sidebar – Twitter do that... but what if you don't have a sidebar? Put the footer with the header navigation?

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10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP

10 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About HTTP
HTTP is a staple of the web, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have some secrets.

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More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web

More than you ever wanted to know about font loading on the web
When I started thinking about writing a post about web font loading my intention was to propose relatively sophisticated ideas that I've...

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How classic Sierra game graphics worked (and an attempt to upscale them)

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GitHub - eviltrout/agi-upscale: agi pic viewer
agi pic viewer. Contribute to eviltrout/agi-upscale development by creating an account on GitHub.

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That little Sega CD add-on is the cutest thing ever.

メガドラタワーミニ2 | メガドライブミニ2 | セガ
令和初のゲーム機として話題を呼んだミニハードの決定版「メガドライブミニ」が、内容を一新して「メガドライブミニ2」として復活! 「メガドライブ2」を再現した新デザインでさらなる小型化を実現しつつ、中身はさらにパワーアップしました。
Sega, still doing what Nintendon’t, announces a tiny Sega CD retro console
Announcement is Japan-only for now, console is coming in October.

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Testing new web mention stuff