A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Early September “EV-Point MyEV” got released in the App Store (UPDATE mid-October: And in the Play Store). Using the 3RDS moniker – the name of my company by which I freelance – I developed this application for EV-Point, a Belgian Mobile Service Provider that builds and operates a network of public chargepoints to charge your …
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Pretty darn good insight in Tesla’s recent Model X announcement: [W]hen I pull these five things together I don’t see features that are being built or added because they are “fun” […] No. None of these features have anything to do with building conveniences for humans too lazy to open doors with their hands […] All …
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 “The True Size Of…” you can drag around some countries and see so yourself. If this rings a bell: yes indeed, it’s comparable …
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 …
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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 …