👋 Thanks for mentioning!
I love everything about this. 😍
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles: A collection of hexagon tiles that magnetically snap together to create a Settlers of Catan board of any shape or size. Each tile features a large round LCD and a custom magnetic pogo connector on each edge. Linking up a bunch of tiles creates a position-aware partial mesh network.
I make web stuff all day every day. This is refreshing! 👏
Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?
📅 Tomorrow it's #RemoteHack from 9:30 AM BST
🫂 Join in from wherever you are! 👉http://remotehack.space
📢 There might be new periodic Airquotes The Podcast Airquotes recordings: https://remotehack.space/live/
📣 A new blog post: Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server
Using a Raspberry Pi to Host a local Visual Studio Code Server | The blog of Max Glenister
I tend to work on this blog from multiple machines in my home. These include a desktop PC running Windows, a MacBook Pro running macOS, and a Chromebook with the Linux environment enabled. Across all of these machines I primarily use Visual Studio Code.
The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
The forgotten benefits of “low tech” user interfaces
Seemingly outmoded technologies sometimes hold the key to better user experiences.
Man, 90s appliance UIs were a ride!
About the Dual MN 8010, the remarkable retro stereo set you've never heard of, that has a GUI (Graphical User Interface).
The Nightmare Of Getting DOOM Running On A Serious Business Machine ...
"Using alt text properly" (2013)
"When should alt text be blank?" (2012)
Quick tip: Using alt text properly - The A11Y Project
A few tips on how and when to use the alt attribute. Make sure the text is helpful and most importantly meaningful.
Well this DALL-E 2 is insane! Going to have to be even more critical/sceptical when consuming content...
"My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test"
My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
I went on a real vacation, and created photos of a fake vacation using DALL-E 2. Most people couldn't tell the difference.
This is a great build log for converting a garage to a habitable workshop space.
Feeling bad that I've not done anything close to this with my garage yet!
DIY: Garage to Workshop Conversion - MichD
In June 2021, my partner Brittany and I realised a dream: we bought a house. When viewing the place, the owners showed surprise about us wanting to have a look at the standalone double garage. It was packed full of unwanted stuff, leaving barely any room to walk. As “makers”, we had some different ideas for the space. Soon after we got the keys, we got to work.
Let’s get the before/after out of the way before going through the whole thing.
Before
How we found the garage on the day we received the keys, June 11th. The previous owners cleared out most of their stuff, but left us a few things we might find useful.
After
The finished product after all the work we’ve completed, from a similar viewpoint. Better photos near the end of the post. The goal was to have a finished “inside” style room we’d be comfortable in for our nerdy activities.
Portal64: A demake of portal for the Nintendo 64
GitHub - lambertjamesd/portal64: A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64
A demake of Portal for the Nintendo 64. Contribute to lambertjamesd/portal64 development by creating an account on GitHub.
These are some great a11y tips, and great explanations/examples too!
See also: https://www.a11yproject.com/checklist/
Tomb Raider Reflection Effect: How it works
This really is a thing of beauty! https://fabiensanglard.net/d2r/index.html
I've still got a couple of unused branded notebooks from conferencing 5 years ago! Saying that, I'm always happy to receive free stationary...
Do Developers Still Want Swag?
Over the years, company merchandise, also known as swag (short for “stuff we all get”), has become something of a status symbol in some circles. But do developers still want swag? Find out more in our latest article.
Some notes/thoughts in response to https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/ordering-css-delcarations/
Sorting your CSS property declarations is fine, and tools such as StyleLint [1] have plugins [2] to make adhering to this goal a lot easier. If you're already pre-processing (or post-processing) then it should be easy to add StyleLint to your workflow.
In my opinion, Sass mixin includes should come after the other CSS properties in a declaration block. If you're overriding the styles in a mixin, your mixin could probably do with some more parameters, or the use of the content block [3].
Vendor prefixed properties should come before the unprefixed property (-moz-foo, -webkit-foo, foo), grouped together (-moz-foo, -moz-bar, -moz-baz, -webkit-foo, -webkit-bar, -webkit-baz, foo, bar, bar). Keep the prefixed/unprefixed properties together to reduce the cognitive load for whoever comes back to this codebase later. The unprefixed property should always come last because that will be applied if the browser supports it (even if the prefixed syntax was already applied) [4].
Alternatively, you could use Autoprefixer [5] and never have to write out all of the prefixed properties ever again 🤷
Anyway, tooling helps. Modern browsers are smart. You'll rarely hit any of the fun things we used to have to deal with when IE was a dominant browser. You shouldn't need to spend too much time thinking about cosmetic changes to your code. Besides the CSS cascade [6] (declaration order, specificity, etc.) everything else is irrelevant.
[1] https://stylelint.io [2] https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order/blob/master/rules/properties-alphabetical-order/README.md [3] https://sass-lang.com/documentation/at-rules/mixin#passing-arguments-to-content-blocks [4] https://css-tricks.com/ordering-css3-properties/ [5] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer [6] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Cascade
I've been using a couple of these tools for a while now with Windows 10. Great to see such a detailed overview of the whole suite!
PowerToys - 11 awesome features Microsoft won’t add to Windows: https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/powertoys-11-awesome-features-microsoft-won-t-add-to-windows
PowerToys - 11 awesome features Microsoft won’t add to Windows
Windows PowerToys are a set of powerful utilities (I can't live without them btw) that Microsoft just hasn't implemented into Windows OS.
"Building like it's 1984: Scrollbars in web applications" https://height.app/blog/scrollbars-in-web-applications
Great use of CSS variables to set inheritable aspect ratio styles!
"Building a combined CSS-aspect-ratio-grid" https://9elements.com/blog/combined-aspect-ratio-grid/
Building a combined CSS-aspect-ratio-grid
Recently I was faced with the following problem. I had to build a layout that consists of several rows. In each row are two images with a fixed aspect ratio. The two images should have the same height and fill the entire row.
Giving this a go, as I'm already using Hyper-V with some guest OS' on this machine I had to fiddle with the Virtualbox settings to get the installer going, but it seems to be working‼
"Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox
GitHub - myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox: Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS
Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS - GitHub - myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox: Push-button installer of macOS Catalina,...
⌚ Lots of information about 7 segment displays, and some alternative designs
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Q1K3 – An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript
Play it: https://phoboslab.org/q1k3/ Making of: https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of
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📣 I was complaining about #CSS not handling DOM Text nodes when using :only-child yesterday, today I've solved the problem with a bit of #JavaScript, some questionable DOM traversial, and a short blog post https://blog.omgmog.net/post/a-bit-of-a-bodge-to-make-massive-emoji/