AR Experiments: Flight Paths – A visualization of flight data that floats around you.

Flight Paths is an experiment that transforms your room into a flight path visualization. Touch any horizontal surface and explore as flights take off from JFK or SFO and fly around your space. AR Experiments: Flight Paths →

Data Selfie – A browser extension analysing your Facebook consumption

Data Selfie is a browser extension that tracks you while you are on Facebook to show you your own data traces and reveal what machine learning algorithms could predict about your personality based on that data. The tool explores our relationship to the online data we leave behind as a result of media consumption and …

Using the new Async Clipboard API

Shipping with Chrome 66 is an implementation of the new Async Clipboard API. Its asynchronous nature makes it the preferred way – over document.execCommand – to perform copy-paste operations in the browser. // Write Text to the Clipboard (e.g. copy) navigator.clipboard.writeText(‘Text to be copied’) .then(() => { console.log(‘Text copied to clipboard’); }) .catch(err => { …

V8 internals for JavaScript developers: Arrays

This presentation demonstrates how learning just a little bit about JavaScript engine internals can help you improve the run-time performance of your JavaScript code — not just in V8 specifically, but across all JavaScript engines! A written version is also available.

The Making of ”Welcome Home” by Spike Jonze

I really enjoyed Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad for the HomePod, directed by Spike Jonze: Over at AdWeek there’s a behind the scenes video available showing how they made it: In particular, we get immersed in the choreography and the production design. But we also see how other elements came together, like the lighting, music and …

The Broccoli Tree: A Parable

Patrik Svedberg had been taking photos of a particular and unique tree which he named “The Broccoli Tree”. He posted the photos on an Instagram account dedicated to the tree. And then one day, he noticed something was wrong with the tree. This video by Seth Radley tells the story. To share something is to …

Subsetting web fonts with glyphhanger

glyphhanger is a great tool to work with web fonts, developed by the folks at Filament Group. It serves two goals: It shows what unicode-ranges are used on a web page: # local and remote URLs $ glyphhanger ./test.html $ glyphhanger https://example.com # output characters instead of Unicode code points $ glyphhanger ./test.html –string # …