A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
new rafscroll(function() { // Do your thing here. }); Your monitor refreshes at 60 frames per second (fps). Scroll events, on the other hand, do not. Chaining your scroll events to a requestAnimationFrame ensures that your transitions and animations will refresh each time the monitor refreshes, rather than each time a scroll event is fired. …
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Responsive web design has engendered a wider conversation about how we build products that accommodate an increasing breadth of connected devices. This talk will suggest a framework within which we can model this continuing discussion, and outline the principles needed for our work to better respond to a rapidly changing world. A PDF with presenter …
In a leap for robotic development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously. “I, For One, Welcome Our New …” MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump …
JavaScript var is dead? We should use ES2015 let and const now? CSS is getting variables, nesting, scoping and custom selectors. Preprocessors like Sass and Stylus are dead, long live PostCSS. Just learned Grunt? Oh you should use Gulp – wait no, Webpack. Still laying out your sites using floats like a sucker? Flexbox is …
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Use your iPad as an extra display for your Mac or PC. Zero Lag. Next to the fact that you have an extra display, you also gain touch to manipulate your OS. Would be of good use for that iPad 3 I have laying around, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s bootlooping after …
JavaScript Robotics, By Your Command. Next generation robotics framework with support for 36 different platforms Take the Leap Motion for example. Install Cyclon.js using npm, and then use this little tad of code to start interacting via the Leap Motion: var Cylon = require(‘cylon’); Cylon.robot({ connections: { leapmotion: { adaptor: ‘leapmotion’ } }, devices: { …
Like many six year olds with a MacGyver mullet I learned how to ride a bike when I was really young. I had learned a life skill and I was really proud of it. Everything changed though when my friend Barney called me 25 years later. He had a challenge for me. He had built …