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How to build an accessible interactive canvas animation(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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by rikroots 5y ago
I get my personal sites scraped and saved by the British Library's UK Web Archive[1]. There's no guarantee that my poems will still be viewable in the year 2521, but they're my best bet for immortality. [1] - https:/&#x
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by rikroots 5y ago
I've got into generative art lately. Originally it was a way to test-and-stretch my Javascript canvas library, but as time went on I found it was a nice way to exercise my creativity. I do most of my art coding on CodePen.
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by rikroots 5y ago
This. The one major stumbling block not mentioned in the article is accessibility. OffscreenCanvas offers nothing to solving that problem. Also, I don't understand people who complain that 2d canvas is slow; it isn't. What slows t
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by rikroots 5y ago
I've no idea if these people are the same people, or if they just took over the name at some point - https://www.weekendr.co.uk/ - but they haven't updated the copyright in their footer since 2018
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As someone who suffers from prosopagnosia, what I want is face recognition software installed in a pair of glasses so that when I focus on somebody's face, their name will appear at the top of my glasses and I won't have to strugg
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by rikroots 5y ago
I've just dedicated the best part of 2.5 years to working on my open source project[1] almost full-time. During that time I've managed to rewrite the entire library from scratch, discover a new purpose for its existence and (very
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by rikroots 5y ago
I did laugh when I read the linked article - the idea that they are destroying the real world to create a limited edition of computer generated worlds that, to me, don't look that sophisticated anyway. I have an interest in both genera
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It does seem confusing. The animation is a nice visual but they appear to be doing it in a canvas element which covers the whole page. I was expecting to see something driven by Houdini's CSS Painting API[1] but looking through the CSS
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by rikroots 5y ago
My first programming language was (I think) BBC Basic. Later on I used AMOS Basic which was tailored to do amazing stuff using the Amiga hardware. AOZ studio[1] is (I believe) a modern descendant of AMOS (but without the Amiga). Every now a
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I solved this problem by deciding early on that the only way for me to get creative stuff done, and to enjoy myself while getting creative stuff done, was to treat my creative endeavours as hobbies rather than income streams. Turns out you
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Show HN: A dynamic, interactive, accessible before-after images slider effect(codepen.io)
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I've been known to commit poetry when I think people aren't watching me[1]. Strangely, I've always found it easier to tell people I invent my own languages[2]. If I accidentally admit to the poetry thing then people start ask
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by rikroots 5y ago
When I was doing my Open University computing degree one of the modules was on systems thinking. During the course I got told (by tutors) that I have a tendency to think more systematically than most people. So I should've been able to
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by rikroots 5y ago
When I did a GOL demo (for my own pleasure because: why not?)[1] I quickly got frustrated by the idea that you need a 2D array to store the current state, and a second array for the next state. My thinking was that we only need to know the
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by rikroots 5y ago
Amazon still have copies available of both the Official Netscape Visual JavaScript Developers Guide[1] and Netscape Visual JavaScript For Dummies[2] books. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Netscape-Visual-JavaScript...
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by rikroots 5y ago
> Challenge: Come up with a list of websites that scores above 95 on Google page Speed insights. HN is one. The article linked here is another. Generally, programming-language home pages do well. What about the startup sites under `Show
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How to code up a rotating tesseract (CodePen demo)(codepen.io)
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Okay. I'm gonna bite. I've been following this series but, until now, the advice has seemed to me to be too-far-down-the-road because my open-source project[1] suffers from one massive issue: nobody knows it exists. And because no
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by rikroots 5y ago
My experience is that ageism only kicks in when the company culture is overtly focussed on a sort of "work hard; play hard" ethos. If the key influencers in the company enjoy working with a banterish atmosphere around them, then a
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<style> * * { font-size: 120%; } </style> <div> Hello <div> Hello <div> Hello <div> Hello &l
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I've been a member for 2 years - I still don't understand what I'm supposed to do, or how I'm supposed to do it. I know there's plenty of guides and stuff, but the whole thing leaves me ... cold. I reckon my main pr
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When 3d rotating absolutely positioned elements that lie over each other, Chrome/Firefox/IE will display elements in their entirety on top of each other. Safari gets them to intersect with each other in weird-yet-mysterious ways t
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> Thanks to their walled garden the only available web browser on iOS is Safari, and since no developer can afford to ignore iOS as a platform they have no choice but to deal with it. As the sole developer and maintainer of a Javascript
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I think we can use the 'sheep' plural strategy here. There are, after all, rather a lot of emoji out there.
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Creating a GUI fort TensorFlow (or MediaPipe) is not a bad thing in itself, yes? For one thing, we need more After-Effects-like tools - particularly if they can be browser based and cheap/free to use. The ML people don't make it e
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I was surprised that when I tested my canvas library website using the new Lighthouse metrics it scored 92 on performance (and 99 on accessibility, which is the metric I most care about). The website[1] includes a massive animated banner in
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I don't know - I think a variety of coding approaches may make for some interesting AI code suggestions in the next year or two. I do pity the poor algorithm that has to parse sense into my coding idiosyncrasies.
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The thing I like most about this latest release of my Javascript library for the HTML5 canvas element is that I managed to make the new reaction-diffusion asset performant in a 2d canvas. Most of the code I uncovered through internet search
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Show HN: Scrawl-canvas v8.5.4 released. Now you can grow patterns organically(linkedin.com)
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