I love these diorama-style miniatures using everyday items by Tatsuya Tanaka. He’s been creating them ever since April 2011. Broccoli and parsley may sometimes look like a forest of trees, and tree leaves floating on the surface of water may sometimes look like little boats. Everyday occurrences seen from a miniature perspective can bring us …
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LEGO – MASTERS by Marco Sodano
I like these little masterpieces by Marco Sodano. Pixel-art using LEGO, if you like 🙂 Self-Portrait, Vincent Van Gogh (1889) Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1503–1506) Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665) More artworks in the links. LEGO – MASTERS (Set 1) →LEGO – MASTERS (Set 2) →
SpaceX’s SN10 “Belly Flop” Composite
Earlier this week SpaceX’s SN10 rocket took off, ascended to ±10km, and then after a free fall in the horizontal position turned vertical again to successfully land (only to explode a few minutes later). While you can rewatch the whole thing online I’m more fascinated by this composite photo by Jack Beyer, visualizing the trajectory: …
Nihilistic Password Security Questions
Ha, these are brilliant! Nihilistic Password Security Questions →
CSS Landscape
A landscape, painted with CSS: Click the image to go to the CodePen. Do note it’s quite heavy on resources (hence why I haven’t embedded it here). 👋 Psst, try changing the color of the sun 😉
How and when browsers load and execute JavaScript from script tags
When exactly is a script loaded and when is it executed? What about modules? This overview/cheatsheet sums it up nicely: The cheatsheet was extracted from this tweet by Addy Osmani
Recognized Experts over Time
— ChristopheVanlancker (@Carroarmato0) March 3, 2020 Funny because it’s true 😂
Bad Map Projection: South America
This XKCD comic is right up my alley: The projection does a good job preserving both distance and azimuth, at the cost of really exaggerating how many South Americas there are. 😂 Bad Map Projection: South America →
Design Price List
— Sarah Sampsel (@sarahsampsel) January 9, 2020
Accept Push Notifications to verify that you’re not a robot
Speaking of Push Notifications in the previous post, how about this Dark Pattern right here which I encountered recently: Press Allow to verify that you’re not a robot Pretty sure many users walk blindly into that trap!? 😞