There are existing apps or flash to do this, but no web version so here it is. DaftPunKonsole (Codepen) → DaftPunKonsole (Github) →
Inside AirBnB: New York City
Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is REALLY being used in New York City. By analyzing publicly available information about Airbnb’s New York City listings, Inside Airbnb provides filters and key metrics so you can see how Airbnb is being used to compete …
Printing Medium stories
Game of Thrones Season 5: A Day in the Life
Super Mario World “Credits Warp”
Fascinating trick in which one actually reprograms Super Mario World by just playing it to make it start playing the end credits upon triggering a crash: The goal of this run is to trick the game into playing the credits in the first level. It works by using a glitch to allow yoshi to eat …
Facebook Engineering: Introducing 6-pack, the open hardware modular switch
The “6-pack” platform is the core of our new fabric, and it uses “Wedge” [a custom built network switch] as its basic building block. It is a full mesh non-blocking two-stage switch that includes 12 independent switching elements. Each independent element can switch 1.28Tbps. We have two configurations: One configuration exposes 16x40GE ports to the …
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Flipboard Engineering: 60fps on the mobile web
Since earlier this week Flipboard now is a website too. As they wanted to mimic their mobile apps, it would sport lots of animations. During their first tests, they found the DOM being too slow (although that’s not entirely true, see this video and its description for example). And then, an epiphany: Most modern mobile …
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I am the fold
An experiment to show how designing for The Fold can be treacherous. Each line is from a random sampling of past-visitors’ viewport heights. Take care when making assumptions about people’s screen sizes on the web. Do note that it only shows “a randomised subset of the full data”. I am the fold → Related: Life …