A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Nice new tool by Cameron Adams (The Man in Blue): just enter the URL of a tweet, et voila: you get a screenshot – without any cruft and in a decent resolution – in return. To do this on the technical side, I fetch the tweet text using Twitter’s API and then analyse the author’s …
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Data Selfie is a browser extension that tracks you while you are on Facebook to show you your own data traces and reveal what machine learning algorithms could predict about your personality based on that data. The tool explores our relationship to the online data we leave behind as a result of media consumption and …
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Shipping with Chrome 66 is an implementation of the new Async Clipboard API. Its asynchronous nature makes it the preferred way – over document.execCommand – to perform copy-paste operations in the browser. // Write Text to the Clipboard (e.g. copy) navigator.clipboard.writeText(‘Text to be copied’) .then(() => { console.log(‘Text copied to clipboard’); }) .catch(err => { …
I really enjoyed Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad for the HomePod, directed by Spike Jonze: Over at AdWeek there’s a behind the scenes video available showing how they made it: In particular, we get immersed in the choreography and the production design. But we also see how other elements came together, like the lighting, music and …
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Patrik Svedberg had been taking photos of a particular and unique tree which he named “The Broccoli Tree”. He posted the photos on an Instagram account dedicated to the tree. And then one day, he noticed something was wrong with the tree. This video by Seth Radley tells the story. To share something is to …
glyphhangerglyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ glyphhanger https://example.com # output characters instead of Unicode code points $ glyphhanger ./test.html –string # …