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by rikroots 4y ago
Good article. In particular the observation near the end: "A Barnum statement is a strategically vague description that says little of substance, but is written with just the right amount of ambiguity, so that people can read into it a
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It's not scrolljacking - as I understand the term. It's a very tall body (50,000px) with a sticky full-viewport canvas element which must be animating (mainly Three.js) in line with the the progression of an intersectionObserver a
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by rikroots 4y ago
I can't speak for GPU solutions, but I do have some experience of trying to make HTML 2d <canvas> elements as accessible as possible. You can get an overview of the issues/solutions (disclaimer: using my canvas library) here
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Show HN: Scrawl-canvas 2D canvas JavaScript library – 158 interactive demos(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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My canvas library's README[1] has a video embedded in it. FWIW I'm not convinced it adds anything to the library's sales pitch. [1] https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
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(Copying my comment over from a different HN ChatGPT thread I commented on this morning - are all these ChatGPT threads getting a bit ... samey?) As a writer, I'm much happier in the revision/editing stage than in the first draft
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As a writer, I'm much happier in the revision/editing stage than in the first draft stage. I have a half-finished novel that's been half-finished for the best part of 8 years now. I'm now thinking that maybe if I feed th
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It looks like Safari developers have been very busy fixing things for this release. The number of issues fixed is huge, compared to the previous dozen releases. Well done, Safari developers!
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It's a nice, simple game - I assume to help with teaching RGB hex codes to students? Though now we have OKLAB/OKLCH - currently in Safari, hopefully coming to your local browser soon - I'm hoping the industry can start moving
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Many thanks for these links! I'll check them out and see if I can fit something into the build chain.
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Ask HN: Is there an easy way to automate animation tests that include UI?
2 points by rikroots 4y ago|2 comments
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This is a well written article on the lottery around artistic acclaim and fame. My personal connection with William Blake is sitting regularly on a bench near his grave to eat my lunch[1]. A poet who resonates strongly with me is Wilfred Ow
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I know it sounds stupid, but I've learned to make an effort to be nice to the person at the supermarket checkout. Say hello, ask how their shift is going, pleasant smalltalk. Not only has this forced me out of my anti-social comfort zo
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by rikroots 4y ago
I am a real person. I have a birth certificate. My problem is that people, when they learn my name[1], don't believe I'm a real person, or they believe I'm a person hiding behind a pseudonym. I blame my parents. Examples? A d
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by rikroots 4y ago
This might be a bit niche, and not specifically JS, but drawing anything in a HTML <canvas> element which involves a CanvaAPI ShadowBlur[1] is guaranteed to make Firefox weep. The issue was mentioned on Bugzilla (at least) 11 years ag
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It seems quite stable to me (on Chrome) ... until I weave my fingers from each hand together. That said, I still think MediaPipe is an excellent piece of ML tech. And, from a dev point of view, quite easy to get working for various things i
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This reminds me of the time I built one of my larger bonfires in Usenet Land, then immolated myself (well, my reputation) in the resulting pyre. In Usenet Land I spent most of my time in the poetry groups. In 2002 I came up with the idea of
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by rikroots 4y ago
Another comment alluded to Dr Who, so I feel no shame in posting this YouTube link. The Doctor (of course!) speaks Baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO8mT02SFJw
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I clicked on the 'Latest Animations' link on the site and lost half an hour of my Saturday morning. Some excellent animations there. Thank you!
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I can speak to this. Like the cartoon strip suggests, watching a TV series or movie can get very confusing if you (I) can't tell the difference between actors. Who's sleeping with who? Done harm to who? How did X get to Y so quick
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by rikroots 4y ago
Those are some enjoyable experiments! I've always found the clock faces more fascinating than the mechanisms driving the hands around. I'm easily distracted. My CodePen kaleidoscope clock's here: https://codepen.io
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Tracking mouse movement over a CSS 3d rotated canvas element can be fun https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/dom-013.html
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Reminds me of my very first posting in the (UK) Civil Service working as an Admin Assistant for the Highways Contracts team. Beyond filing, and delivering post to people's desks, my main work was to check through the expenses claims ma
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by rikroots 4y ago
It's not preserving the original site, rather archiving snapshots of it, but my go-to place for saving my personal websites for posterity is the UK Web Archive[1] run by the British Library. Given that they have a legal responsibility
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I had a love-hate relationship with MS WordArt. So much time trying to capture a manager's vision for their slide in yet another PowerPoint presentation or doc. Coding up simple WordArt-like effects for the web can be fun - making sure
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I worked in the UK Civil service for a long while. The language barrier back in the late 1980s was a real thing[1]. While I had good English skills, I had never made it to university - unlike most of my colleagues. Oxbridge alumni were (sti
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One of my comments, in another thread, got called out for being a ChatGPT-generated response[1]. It wasn't; I wrote that comment without any artificial assistance. A part of me felt quite chuffed to be accused of being the current hott
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I love this idea of low-code generative art ... but I have no idea about what's going on here. This is probably (I assume) because I've never played/learned about the OpenGL Shading Language, the concepts of which the nodes a
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The Poetry Advent Calendar 2013(rikweb.org.uk)
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I was clearing out some of the cruff that's accumulated over the years on my personal website and came across this page, which I pulled together for my poetry-loving friends back in 2013. It still works, so I thought I'd share. En

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