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by rikroots 6y ago
I agree. My chances of ever understanding the Standard Model are slim at best, but this representation helped to click more parts of it into place for me than any other diagram. Which leaves, I think: dark matter and dark energy (if they ex
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Shape, and animate, an image between two paths(codepen.io)
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Last month I put aside an hour of my time to go through all the direct debits I have registered on my current account. It's amazing just how many of them I've collected over the years - in particular online newspaper subscriptions
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by rikroots 6y ago
The demo seems to be built on top of three.js - I can spot lots of THREE tags in the bundled javascript file.
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Lab tech: "We'll hire someone else to collect the samples, so you can concentrate on testing" - Huh? The only fun part of the job was when I could get out of the lab to collect samples and, you know, talk to people. Bye! Army
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by rikroots 6y ago
MDN's CanvasRenderingContext2D page[1] suggests that there's a number of 'experimental technology' areas in the API - for instance the filter property[2] (which excites me: hand-coding a performant blur filter is a night
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by rikroots 6y ago
Neither site responds to the 'prefers-reduced-motion' request either. Tangent: as I've only recently learned about 'prefers-reduced-motion, I've become a bit obsessive about checking whether animation-heavy websites
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by rikroots 6y ago
Nice writeup with some interesting insights into how to create a pan/zoom effect in a React component. I do feel a little let down after the read - the title had me hoping that you would be creating the effect using a <canvas> el
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by rikroots 6y ago
The article claims that: > Canvas 2D Context API – This API allows users to draw in browsers. However, on the WHATWG living standard, it is mentioned that this API is no longer being actively maintained. I can't find any such mentio
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by rikroots 6y ago
Nothing provable in a court of law. However, the look of disappointment in some of the interviewers' faces when we finally met for the face-to-face interview told me everything I needed to know about their expectations even before they
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by rikroots 6y ago
I dabbled with building personal websites for 20-odd years before getting my first "professional" gig back in 2014 at age 49. The key difference between hobbyist and professional web development, in my opinion, is not so much prog
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by rikroots 6y ago
> Was there ever a moment like "Oh no, I should rewrite my story in german, because I could better express the ideas"? I wonder if this 2 page free-verse poem work better as half a dozen rhymed couplets? > Have you ever left
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by rikroots 6y ago
I get where you're coming from. The Glitter Band put out some excellent songs both when fronted my Mr G and without him, but none of their material gets played on retro music radio stations nowadays. I think the trigger for my comment
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by rikroots 6y ago
> As a writer you pick pen and paper and write I wish it was that easy. Idea generation; research; plot outlines; character sketches; continuity; deliberate discontinuity; word choice; dialogue flow; action scene planning ... Editing the
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by rikroots 6y ago
Not a good review of the US version. Are other reviews out yet? For what it's worth, I thoroughly enjoyed the UK original, back in 2013/14. Very different to what British TV normally served up as drama ... though Being Human was a
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by rikroots 6y ago
Almost all HN posts get ignored; the speed of change on the front page can be insane at times, and most of the time people don't have the time to browse beyond the front page - especially when they find an engaging submission there, or
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by rikroots 6y ago
Thank you for making this comment - without it I would've ignored this new release. Failure of bundlers (Webpack, Parcel, Rollup, etc) to support import.meta.url has been a major headache for me. Making my JS library usable in sites th
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by rikroots 6y ago
Comparing anyone to Mr Glitter comes with some less-than-savoury baggage. Instead, here's a link to an article describing the second careers of ten other famous musicians - https://www.considerable.com/work/second-
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by rikroots 6y ago
I've never built anything beyond Lego, Meccano and the occasional flatpacked piece of furniture. However, when it comes to "granny pads" the most important thing to take into account is what the specified granny needs, and wo
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by rikroots 6y ago
Conlanging (constructed languages) is, I guess, more mainstream than it used to be. There's an r/conlangs subreddit dedicated to the art. I assume the popularity is due to finding conlangs used in popular films, TV series and vide
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by rikroots 6y ago
Firefox used to be a lot faster, and smoother, at rendering <canvas> than Chrome when I was developing early versions of my canvas library (around the mid 2010s). But then Chrome caught up and for the past couple of years has been co
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by rikroots 6y ago
> You have solved the problem of the considerable "extra" effort that web accessibility requires? Have I 'solved' web accessibility for the <canvas> element? No. Have I coded up a JS canvas library that has, as
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by rikroots 6y ago
I don't have an answer for you, except to say that getting <video> and <canvas> elements to play nicely with each other across all browsers and devices is pretty much guaranteed to damage your day, week, or even your month.
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There are a number of excellent libraries ('products' - I use the terms interchangeably) dedicated to making development with the <canvas> element a lot easier; they all have a strong basic use case because coding scenes usi
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by rikroots 6y ago
First: chart.js[1] is an excellent library. If people need to add chart infographics to their website I strongly recommend they use a dedicated charting tool (like chart.js) rather than my library. Like you, I've had to do a lot of cod
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by rikroots 6y ago
https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
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Web accessibility is a legitimate issue that every front-end developer needs to care about.
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I read the article before coming to read the HN response to it. I haven't read beyond your top-of-the-thread comment. The article resonated deeply with me, because I know just how the author feels. I, too, have developed a software pro
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by rikroots 6y ago
A nice example of the power of GreenSock's DrawSVGPlugin
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I disagree. Until I read the post I wasn't aware that Wikipedia are about to embark on changing their desktop UI. As someone who uses Wikipedia as much for reading pleasure as for looking up stuff, and who has just been through the dis

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