A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In cooperation with LG U+, Doosan have demonstrated “TeleOperation” – a technology to remotely control construction equipment. They demonstrated it by operating the DX380LC-5 (a 40-tonne excavator) over a distance of 8500km (!). The operator was located in Munich (Germany), the excavator itself in Incheon, South Korea. Here’s a video of TeleOperation in action, at …
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Nice research by Simon Niklaus, Long Mai, Jimei Yang and Feng Liu: In this paper, we introduce a framework that synthesizes the 3D Ken Burns effect from a single image, supporting both a fully automatic mode and an interactive mode with the user controlling the camera. Our framework first leverages a depth prediction pipeline, which …
Over the years Instagram (as a product) grew a lot. With more features to show, their web experience began to degrade. In a series of (upcoming) posts they’re covering what they have done to improve performance. In this first part they cover script preloading and image prefetching, reducing the loading time of the “feed page” …
Button placement on forms is often ignored or prioritised based on what looks good. But button placement can make or break a form, and a form can make or break a user’s experience. That’s why it’s essential to get it right. Here I’ll explain where to put buttons across a range of different forms based …
Being a big fan of his work, I enjoyed this episode of The Director’s Chair featuring Wes Anderson: In this episode of The Director’s Chair, we take Wes Anderson interviews so that he can explain his unique style and dive into the Wes Anderson aesthetic. The contents are summarised into 5 topics: Pull from your …
Great research by Zell Liew: I noticed browsers were inconsistent in how they handle a click on <button>. Some browsers choose to focus on the button. Some browsers don’t. In this article, I want to show you my test and findings. Then, I want to talk about a way to overcome these inconsistencies. Great to …
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Charming little demo by Louis Hoebregts: Using a Data URI he injects an SVG as the url for the border-image CSS property. That SVG itself is then animated using a self-contained tad of inline CSS. (Yes, that’s CSS-in-CSS 😉)
Nice new feature coming to Adobe Premiere Pro: Powered by Adobe Sensei machine learning technology, Auto Reframe seamlessly adjusts aspect ratios such as square, vertical or 16:9 video to help improve time-consuming manual video resizing. Adobe Blog: Get to the Finish Line Faster →
Going beyond Binary Conditions for CSS Calculations, Ana Tudor takes it to a whole new level by introducing the logical operations (and, or, nand, nor, not, and xor) to CSS — all built on top of calc() Very often, while using switch variables, I wish I could perform logical operations on them. We don’t have …
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Free book by Chris Fernandi: The web is a bloated, over-engineered mess. And, I believe many of our modern “best practices” are actually making the web worse. In this book, I want to share some ideas on how to fix it, and explore a new set of best practices to replace what we do today. …