What if money didn’t matter

Or why I — two times already when compared to the job before — took a financial step down when switching jobs. If you love doing what you do, the loss of money is overly compensated by joyfulness. Also: if you don’t like doing what you’re doing anymore, then switch jobs (or go on a …

Fun with face detection, canvas and webcam video

With the getUser­Me­dia API, a video ele­ment, a can­vas ele­ment and LiuLiu’s excel­lent face detec­tion algo­rithm, we can eas­ily play around with web­cam video data in the browser, plug-in free. Mask over­lay experiment: Scaling content experiment: Cool! Fun with face detection, canvas and webcam video → Related: getUserMedia Moustache (via Webappers.com)

Tincr — Edit and save files from Chrome Developer tools + Live reload for Chrome

Tincr is a tool that arose from my own frustration with switching back and forth between Chrome Developer Tools (or devtools for short) to do debugging and my text editor to do coding. The idea behind Tincr is that you can save changes to your original source file from within Chrome Developer Tools. In addition, …

TinyPNG — Compress PNG images while preserving transparency

TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files. By selectively decreasing the number of colours in the image, fewer bytes are required to store the data. The effect is nearly invisible but it makes a very large difference in file size! Works so well (shaves more than 50% …