Elon Musk’s sleight of hand

Pretty darn good insight in Tesla’s recent Model Xā€Šannouncement: [W]hen I pull these five things together I don’t see features that are being built or added because they are ā€œfunā€ […] No. None of these features have anything to do with building conveniences for humans too lazy to open doors with their hands […] All …

The True Size Of …

If you’ve been following my blog for some time now you’ll know that I’m no fan of the Mercator projection, as it has distorted our perception of how big countries are. With ā€œThe True Size Of…ā€ you can drag around some countries and see so yourself. If this rings a bell: yes indeed, it’s comparable …

A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography

We present a unified computational approach for taking photos through reflecting or occluding elements such as windows and fences. Rather than capturing a single image, we instruct the user to take a short image sequence while slightly moving the camera. Differences that often exist in the relative position of the background and the obstructing elements …

Grid Style Sheets 2.0

GSS reimagines CSS layout & replaces the browser’s layout engine with one that harnesses the Cassowary Constraint Solver — the same algorithm Apple uses to compute native layout. Using Constraint CSS and GSS Selectors it’s really easy to, for example, make two elements have the same width: .container { &[width] == #elm[width]; } Next to …