A presentation with quite a few practical pointers on doing presentations (how meta!):
Pinokio
Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing. Customized computer code and electronic circuit design imbues Lamp with the ability to be aware of its environment, especially people, and to expresses a dynamic range of behaviour. As it negotiates its world, we the human audience can see that Lamp shares …
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 …
Play Dune 2 in your browser
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)
jQuery.faceDetection()
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, …
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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% …
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