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by alecperkins 14y ago
Interesting. Much more game-like than I was picturing. (I had in mind something like that old Choose Your Own Adventure series.) I guess the line between interactive story and game is pretty blurry. It's not clear what PlayStory is. The tre
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The web seems like a perfect medium for doing really interesting choose-your-own-adventure story interfaces. It's odd that there aren't really any examples (that I could find) that are more than just links to different pages. I wonder if it
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PlayStory - Create and sell your own interactive story.(playstory.net)
6 points by alecperkins 14y ago|4 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I was first amazed at the quality, then surprised that these were taken more recently than I expected, in 1910. Then, I realized that, duh, that was 102 years ago. It's strange how even 100+ years ago is getting more and more recent. (Obvio
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by alecperkins 14y ago
That there's any confusion is why this is a problem. Once you start getting into centralized, micromanegerial control of the content of applications, you have to handle all the details, all the edge cases. Law has the same problem.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
My interpretation is that it's referring to actually embedding a tweet in a way that pulls it live via the API (or otherwise presented as a tweet entity), and that just quoting someone's tweet (like one would quote an article) is still fine
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Streams are more an attitude shift to match how people consume content than a substantial functional shift. They still allow for permalinks; it's possible to link to any tweet directly. Stream-oriented content is about acknowledging that pa
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Vote with your money.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
You can edit your own, and fork the gists of others. They're full git repos.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I'm really liking this use of gists as a backend to more specialized services (eg http://dabblet.com & http://codepen.io ). It's a nice, easy way to get a versioned document store without having to build out the infrastructure. Dire
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by alecperkins 14y ago
My favorite part is that they all come in iPhone or iPad wallpaper forms. No. 34 is my favorite card, and instantly became my iPad lock screen.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Browser-based JavaScript. Their CORS and JSONP support suggests they have this use case in mind.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The catch is that when you can control every pixel, you have to control every pixel if you don't want things to look crummy. Scrollkit is going to have to overcome that in some way if they don't want it to get stuck as the MS Paint of the
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Crowdfunding Should Be a Local Phenomenon(streetfightmag.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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Who cares about stock price, Zuckerberg should win Peace Prize(sneakerheadvc.com)
1 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I'd love to see a drag-and-drop editor that doesn't require the image be absolutely positioned and can have text interact with the image. Somewhat like iBooks Author, but without fixed page sizes.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
The fullscreen mode is a nice touch, as is the image resizing, provided the cursor doesn't leave the image boundary. It's frustrating that, like other editors, it doesn't differentiate so well between line and block actions. Also, I was ver
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Or, the designers/developers can make sensible decisions about what to include. The existing tools are fine, and provide plenty of techniques for optimizing to different viewing platforms and environments. The problem is people getting carr
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Since it's basically a rounding error, I'm not sure if there's any way to avoid the gap without some overlap. In that example, a :before pseudo-element that's the same width as the box and one pixel above the triangle can provide the overla
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I'm currently working on a site that uses it heavily in production for visual enhancements and details. It's a great trick that works well, and doesn't require any additional markup if you use :before and :after pseudo-elements. Using CSS i
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Yes, I've seen that often. It's most apparent even without any zooming on mobile Safari. For this reason, whenever I use the triangle effect, I'll offset the element/pseudo-element by one pixel to avoid the gap.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
There's an issue with comparisons to plumbing and mechanics. The kinds of devices "ordinary users" interact with in those realms are physical, and it's possible to see how they work at a high level just by looking at them. (Yes, cars and su
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Thanks for the quick reply. I deleted the empty repos and it's working wonderfully. I look forward to the update. Being able to create entirely new repos from the iPad would be a big plus.
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by alecperkins 14y ago
I've been looking forward to a proper editor with GitHub integration, if only for writing notes and documentation into a git repo. (PlainText is great for doing so to Dropbox, but I miss the power of git.) Downside, trying Worqshop out and
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Uptime: A simple HTTP remote monitoring utility using Node.js and MongoDB(fzaninotto.github.com)
3 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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Six Reasons a Non-Computer Nerd Might Want to Learn to Code(theatlanticwire.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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by alecperkins 14y ago
Adoption is the problem. The US Code already is on GitHub — https://github.com/divegeek/uscode — but it's only a mirror. There's also the Sunlight Foundation's OpenCongress http://www.opencongress.org/ which provides a nice way to track
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by alecperkins 14y ago
A hyphen would be useful here: “CoffeeScript-friendly argument order”.
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Funding Announcements and Startups(birch.co)
1 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments
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A Thought on Television Pricing, Featuring Gumroad(amandapeyton.com)
2 points by alecperkins 14y ago|0 comments

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