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Boston Dynamic’s Petman Test Camo
Game of Thrones, 1995 style
The reality of head-mounted displays
I’m concerned about two things: one, that audiences who have never been exposed to VR or HMDs have unrealistic expectations and will be disappointed when they see the real thing; two, that software ported from the desktop world will carry over baggage from that world that will lead to a sub-optimal experience. Watch the video. …
Openness does not scale
Openness and success are not compatible. Openness does not scale, no matter how hard you try. Openness does not scale → Related: Why What You’re Reading About Blink Is Probably Wrong, a Chrome Developer talking about the aforementioned Blink: When landing a patch in both WebKit and Chromium stretches into a multi-day dance of flags, …
Servo: Next Generation Web Browser Engine by Mozilla and Samsung
Servo is an attempt to rebuild the Web browser from the ground up on modern hardware, rethinking old assumptions along the way. This means addressing the causes of security vulnerabilities while designing a platform that can fully utilize the performance of tomorrow’s massively parallel hardware to enable new and richer experiences on the Web. To …
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Turn Dropbox into a Web server with Site44
Low-Poly
aprilFools.css
A tad late, but here it is nonetheless: A collection of user styles that change the default rendering of websites. Perfect way to fool someone on April 1st. Put these CSS definitions into your co-workers css overriding file. They will be applied to every website they visit. They are commented out by default, so make …
Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project
Google just announced it’ll fork Webkit for use with Chrome/Chromium as it has become too difficult to add features to it as Chrome uses quite a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers: When Chromium started, our goal was to change as little of WebKit as possible, easing integration with the WebKit codebase. With Blink …
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