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by rikroots 4y ago
I've been working on my OS library for 9 years now, almost entirely by myself. For the majority of that time I kept documentation separate from code. Now I do enjoy documenting stuff - I have diplomas in both Computing, and Creative Wr
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I don't like the word "amateur" in this context - the semantic shift from its origins, and the baggage the word brings with it today makes it feel ... dismissive, insulting; easy to discount and ignore. Looking at the word&#x
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I'm going to suggest Paul Bourke's "Fractals, Chaos, Self-Similarity" website, because I often go there to get inspiration and code snippets - http://www.paulbourke.net/fractals/ Somebody else has a
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Same age (ish) here. I would have killed for the chance to read Larkin, or any 20th century poet, as part of the English syllabus. Instead I got to spend many, many hours grappling with Chaucer: A povre wydwe, somdeel stape in age, / W
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If size is a worry for you, then you might enjoy Poets' Corner[1] which has been going since 1994. The design of the site might not be 2020s chic, but at the end of the day it's the words in the poems that count (though many poets
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I'm guilty of copying code in from elsewhere. I've made an effort to acknowledge the copying by adding links to the original repos in code comments, which get translated into actual links when I generate the documentation. I also
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I delved into the bewildering world of color last Christmas/New Year when developing a new reduce-palette/dither filter for my JS canvas library. The number of different color spaces available, converting between color spaces, cal
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The big worry I have about this sort of approach is canvas accessibility. It's something the company also seems to be worried about - they put out a statement a couple of months ago about their plans to address accessibility issues goi
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For the first example - the Agency homepage with the playful mouse pointer interaction - I managed to get this working with a keyboard-controlled pointer. Controlling mouse via keyboard is a standard accessibility feature in both MacOS[1] a
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I agree. Night Watch made me laugh, and angry and scared at the same time. All wrapped up in superb writing. After reading the book (a few times) I decided Sir Pterry had reached the top of his game. ... And then I read Thud. And then Snuff
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> ... but wouldn't the logical extreme just be to basically define a container for a JS canvas with embeddable resources? Here's my attempt at creating a grainy video effect in the browser using a media stream (from the device&
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> It's an impossibly imposed elitist standard on someone who is unknown to get to the point where word of mouth sustains them. It's a very Marie Antoinette attitude. No one reaches that level without self promoting as well, the
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I think there's a lot to unpack in this article. I really struggle with self-promotion[1] - or, as my Mother still insists on calling it, "boasting" (with all the negative baggage associated with that word) - but, as the arti
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Are these Peter de Jong attractors? I'm trying to work out how my interpretation of the calculations (in JS)[1] compare with the authors code, but trying to measure performance in CodePen is ... difficult to work out. My approach was t
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I made this because I've always been a little disappointed with the GUI effect used by other JS canvas libraries - which mainly present as a box around the selected graphic(s) with handles on the corners and edges for drag-drop scaling
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Show HN: An accessible, responsive web-based graphic design GUI experiment(codepen.io)
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English local government form, function and finances - or at least I used to, 15 years ago. For my sins, I worked as part of the Lyons Inquiry[1][2] team for 2.5yrs. ... And no. It's not all my fault. [1] - https://www.gov.u
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Probably the Treaty of Amsterdam - one of the EU's more entertaining reads https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/treaty/pdf/amst-en.pdf The UK Human Rights Act landed in 1998. Schedule 1 Part I Article
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I read the article and I kept looking at the horse drawing and thinking: I'm sure I've seen really majestic yet astonishingly simple drawings of horses somewhere. Then I remembered - the White Horse of Uffington[1] There's a
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I don't remember seeing much about Jane Morris when I visited the William Morris Gallery[1]. I didn't leave the place wondering about their (somewhat open) relationship. Apparently, the book that the article is about will be discu
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For what it's worth (and not related to CSS), I added functionality to my canvas library to make canvas elements aware of their container's shape and size, so the graphical elements can dynamically rearrange/resize as require
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I didn't know GoG existed when it came to writing up a couple of tutorials[1][2] on how to go about building a (very, very simple) charting tool[3] on top of my canvas library. I'm going to have to re-assess those lessons, and add
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Can I ask where you got your list of JS graphics/canvas libraries to review? Discovery is the biggest issue facing any JS canvas library developer - and after ten years I still haven't worked out how to crack that problem. I won&#
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Show HN: Proof of concept – colorise/animate any website font(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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I think it's here: https://github.com/athersharif/voxlens
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When I rebuilt my poetry website (using Svelte) I was really keen to get rid of any need for a database on the backend (to save a few pennies on the hosting). I ended up with a folder for all the poems (html snippets) which the frontend can
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to showcase my JS canvas library, Scrawl-canvas[0], the aim of which is to help developers build responsive, interactive and more accessible canvas-based demos, infographics, art etc for their website
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I've also put the demo slider infographic on this web page, which allows for testing it in non-javascript enabled browsers - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/snippets-005.html
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Create a responsive, interactive and accessible before/after slider infographic(codepen.io)
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And Celine Dion - though how the Swiss managed to get her to wear that dress/skirt/puffball thing I don't know.

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