A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request …
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Dutch ISP XS4ALL was ordered to block several IP addresses and domain names (presumably) linked to The Pirate Bay (full list here). In response, they blacked out their homepage. Roughly translated from Dutch: For the first time in history a Dutch ISP was forced to revoke access to a foreign site. The Den Haag court …
Impressive new addition to the list of javascript codec/file format implementations: psd.js is a general purpose file parser for PSD files created in Photoshop. Given a PSD file, it can parse out information such as image size and color modes, image resources, layer info, image contents, etc. Written in Coffeescript. Works in modern browsers and …
Here’s my resulting movie → Cool concept, needs some technical/ux work though. Some quick quirks I noticed: Can’t change the loading background image. It now shows a photo of a friend of mine, instead of a photo of me Videos can’t be saved/embedded Loading of “saved” video is slow (most likely because they’re built on …
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore — and the …
Three days ago this was committed: This is the parsing stage of calc. The expressions are evaluated and expression trees are generated. CSS values are not created yet – that will happen in a subsequent commit. Looking forward to the next commits, as this feature will make things — such as flexible columns with a …