A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
All Friday night we were busy monitoring the different API-calls from the ticketpage to Paylogic. We found out that the ticket page refreshed every 2 minutes with a delay of 6 seconds to send back the answer. The trick was to refresh the ticket page in your browser at exactly 10h. 57m. 54sec., whereafter the …
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When I’m looking at data, I’m looking for little “Aha!” moments that I can point to, and say “Look here, something happened,” and then try to explain. Often those small moments can help lead a reader into the graphic, or help to explain the whole. And then he switches over to Mars Rover and Kepler …
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Everything …
Possible thanks to the Device Orientation Events. Facebook’s Paper photo tilt feature in HTML5 →photoTilt Demo →photoTilt Source (GitHub) → Did you know that this doesn’t work on a Retina MacBook Pro, but does on the previous MacBook Pro model? It’s the Sudden Motion Sensor which affords orientation detection, yet one cannot find that sensor …
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If you’re developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you’re only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships …