A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Radio broadcasts leave Earth at the speed of light and travel outwards into space. Follow them through the Milky Way as you scroll backwards through time and listen to what the stars hear. Built using Three.js. Taking a look at the source code reveals all tracks used. And oh, don’t forget the “Inverse Square Law …
Continue reading “Lightyear.fm – A journey through space, time, and music”
Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it: create a table of items. Each item should span a third of the content area, with the fourth item starting on a new row, much like floats. However, a particular item must always display the price at the end of the first row. Visually, we …
I admit, I’m a Sublime Text user. Why? Because it’s an IDE that plays nice for a lot of languages. Using Sublime Text I can let my students – from the first year up until the third – write SQL statements, HTML, JS, PHP, etc. in it all without needing to learn to work a …
Under the pressure of deadlines and endless change requests, under the weight of years of legacy, code becomes unmaintainable. With the right tools, techniques, and mindset, any codebase can be brought under test, and be refactored towards a better architecture. Let’s skip the theory and dive straight into the spaghetti code. In a live coding …
We identified three main elements of a good trend: Popularity – the trend should be of interest to many people in our community. Novelty – the trend should be about something new. People were not posting about it before, or at least not with the same intensity. Timeliness – the trend should surface on Instagram …
body { font-family: system-font, -webkit-system-font, -apple-system-font, “.SFNSDisplay-Regular”, HelveticaNeue, LucidaGrande; } On a fresh install of OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) there’s no San Francisco font installed. But it’s the system font, so how is this possible? Hence the sort of magic above to actually get it working. I Left My System Fonts in San Francisco …
On July 8, 2015 the New York Stock Exchange went down due to a software glitch. Over at Medium, Zeynep Tufekci went into detail on how it comes that software sucks. Software sucks for many reasons, all of which go deep, are entangled, and expensive to fix. […] LAYERS AND LEGACIES: A lot of software …
Material Design Lite lets you add a Material Design look and feel to your websites. It doesn’t rely on any JavaScript frameworks and aims to optimize for cross-device use, gracefully degrade in older browsers, and offer an experience that is immediately accessible. By the folks at Google Material Design Lite → Related: Paper Elements, a …
When PHP 5.6 was snooping around the corner I prepared this “Getting Ready for PHP 5.6” post to get one started with the new things that made it into the language. Now that PHP 7 is in beta, it’s time to do the same for that version. However, turns out a few bright minds on …