Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini

SpotMini is a new smaller version of the Spot robot, weighing 55 lbs dripping wet (65 lbs if you include its arm.) SpotMini is all-electric (no hydraulics) and runs for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is one of the quietest robots we have ever built. It has …

15 Ways to Write Self-documenting JavaScript

A few handy pointers to keeping your code readable: Some programmers include comments as part of self-documenting code. In this article, we’ll only focus on code. Comments are important, but they’re a large topic to be covered separately. We can split the techniques for self-documenting code into three broad categories: structural, where the structure of …

Find relevant emoji from text on the command-line with emoj

Geekfun: emoj is written in Node and uses the Dango API, which helps you quickly find emoji by understanding what you type using deep learning. Installation via npm (requires Node >= 4): npm install –global emoj emoj Source (GitHub) → Dango: Teaching Robots to Feel: Emoji & Deep Learning 👾 💭 💕 →

Piano + Glacier =

Performance by pianist Ludovico Einaudi on the Arctic Ocean, organised by Greenpeace: Through his music, acclaimed Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi has added his voice to those of eight million people from across the world demanding protection for the Arctic. Einaudi performed one of his own compositions on a floating platform in the middle …

Upload directly from Lightroom to Instagram with LR/Instagram

LR/Instagram is an unofficial publish plugin for Lightroom, allowing you to post photos directly to your Instagram account. Simply install the plugin, add new service in Lightroom Publishing Manager and authenticate with your Instagram account. LR/Instagram – Lightroom Publish Plugin for Instagram →

Typography for User Interfaces

Viljami Salminen: Since my early days in the industry, I’ve grown to love type and all the little nuances that go into setting it. In this article, I want to share some of the fundamentals that I’ve learned, and hopefully help you get better at setting type for user interfaces. Typography for User Interfaces (Article) …

Spoiled.io – Game Of Thrones Spoilers as a Service

Now this is pure evil: Spoiled.io is a service that, for $0.99 per friend, allows you to enter a cell phone number and have them “anonymously and ruthlessly” texted the latest Game Of Thrones spoilers after each new episode airs. Spoiled – Ruin Game of Thrones For Your Friends, Automatically →

Mediaqueryless Responsiveness

Slides of the – highly entertaining – talk @Vasilis gave at CSS Day 2016 in which he elaborated on a few techniques he experimented with in order to get responsive-like sites without using any media queries. Some neat tricks include: Calling it “active whitespace” instead of floats getting stacked up 😛 Setting a unit-ed value …