Photo by Jef Verschueren, a former student of mine, of “some sort of mathematical centre of Finland”. Being a mapping aficionado I’m really intrigued by this one. The drawing itself appears on the cover of The Inner Circle of Europe, a photobook by Gert Verbelen.
FBSimulatorControl – A Mac OS X library for managing and manipulating iOS Simulators
Just launched by Facebook: FBSimulatorControl, A Mac OS X library for managing, booting and interacting with multiple iOS Simulators simultaneously. FBSimulatorControl works by linking with the private DVTFoundation, CoreSimulator and DVTiPhoneSimulatorRemoteClient frameworks that are present inside the Xcode bundle. Doing this allows FBSimulatorControl to talk directly to the same APIs that Xcode and simctl do. …
Kids Playing Star Wars
I know what you did last summer
Yes, bram.us is still a thing. Save a few posts mid July not that much has happened around here. So, what have I been up to the past two months? Here’s a small list (saving the best for last): I reviewed a book I went diving I renovated my house I went camping with my …
Live-Action Real Life First Person Shooter
The Martian
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find …
Web Bluetooth API in Chrome
navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice({ filters: [{ services: [‘battery_service’] }] }) .then(device => { // Human-readable name of the device. console.log(device.name); // Indicates whether or not the device is paired with the system. console.log(device.paired); // Filtered UUIDs of GATT services the website origin has access to. console.log(device.uuids); // Attempts to connect to remote GATT Server. return device.connectGATT(); }) .then(server …
Crayon.css – Because colors have a name
PHP Markdown
use \Michelf\Markdown; $my_html = Markdown::defaultTransform($my_text); This is a library package that includes the PHP Markdown parser and its sibling PHP Markdown Extra with additional features. Originally it was a port to PHP of the Markdown tool written by John Gruber. Here’s how to get it via Composer: composer require michelf/php-markdown PHP Markdown →