Flux is both one of the most popular and one of the least understood topics in current web development. This guide is an attempt to explain it in a way everyone can understand. A cartoon guide to Flux →
Category Archives: Elsewhere
The Jefferson Grid
The aforementioned Sad Topographies reminded me of The Jefferson Grid, an Instagram account curating a list of areal photos depicting a grid with cells the size of one square mile each, spread throughout the United States. Looking from the window seat on a long plane flight, you might have noticed that large swaths of the …
Sad Topographies
Augmented Reality Coloring Book
In this paper, we present an augmented reality coloring book App in which children color characters in a printed coloring book and inspect their work using a mobile device. The drawing is detected and tracked, and the video stream is augmented with an animated 3-D version of the character that is textured according to the …
Hail, Caesar!
Moebio Framework
Clipboard.js
<!– Target –> <input id="foo" value="https://github.com/zenorocha/clipboard.js.git"> <!– Trigger –> <button class="btn" data-clipboard-target="#foo"> <img src="assets/clippy.svg" alt="Copy to clipboard"> </button> Copying text to the clipboard shouldn’t be hard. It shouldn’t require dozens of steps to configure or hundreds of KBs to load. But most of all, it shouldn’t depend on Flash or any bloated framework. That’s why …
iOS9 MobileSafari Viewport Problem
The viewport is set incorrectly when the viewport meta tag is specified with initial-scale=1 or width=device-width, and the page contains an element (e.g. div tag) that is wider than the desired viewport’s boundary. In the screenshot above (courtesy @RWD) you can see that the off-screen menu actually appears on-screen in iOS9. Apple changed how iOS9 …
Project Apollo Archive
The Project Apollo Archive is an online reference source and repository of digital images pertaining to the historic manned lunar landing program. 12,000 photos and counting. Project Apollo Archive (Flickr) → Project Apollo Archive (Facebook) → The panorama at the top of this post was assembled from several Apollo 16 photos by Maciej Winiarczyk.