Month: November 2018
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Pong
Yesterday was World Digital Preservation Day, so Dan reimplemented Pong for the video wall at the Bodleian.
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Digest for November 2018
Summary
This month I reimplemented arcade classic Pong for its 46th birthday/World Digital Preservation Day (note 1, note 2) and set it up to play on a 15-screen videowall at the Weston Library in Oxford.
I also shared thoughts on why web developers should use CSS before adding JS, an explanation of the history of the … -
Playing Pong at the @bodleianlibs for #WDPD2018 #dp0c.
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The Prime Minister's New Bill
With apologies to Hans Christian Andersen and thanks to JTA, both of whom deserve the credit for this more than I.
Once there lived a Prime Minister, and she loved to wear clothes made of strong international relations. One day a Swindler came to the Prime Minister and he promised that … -
JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND
by @innesmck
JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND AND I AM FUCKING LIVID
SIXTEEN???
WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF NUMBER IS THAT
i have had no reason to actually look into imperial measurements until now and frankly i … -
Some days my job... isn't like other people's jobs. Lately, I've been reimplementing Pong in Javascript for the @bodleianlibs' video wall for an event on Thursday.
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Pong on the Heritage Window
Testing a few days prior to public display.
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German chat app slacking on hashing fined €20k
by Richard Chirgwin (The Register) German chat platform Knuddels.de ("Cuddles") has been fined €20,000 for storing user passwords in plain text (no hash at all? Come on, people, it's 2018).
The data of Knuddels users was copied and published by malefactors in July. In September, someone emailed the company warning them that user data had been … -
Warp and Weft?
Warp and Weft by Paul Robert Lloyd (paulrobertlloyd.com) Earlier this month I had the good fortune to attend Material, a conference that explores the concept of the web as a material and all the intrinsic characteristics that entails. The variety of talks provided new perspectives on what it means to build for – and with …
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Baby Burping Robot
Useless Duck Company (YouTube)
At the moment at which he described the machine's success, I completely lost it. -
We Watched the Toy Story Porn Parody So You Don't Have To [NSFW]
A wise man once said "To Infinity and Beyond", Unfortunately there's no way of knowing who that man was or in what context it was meant to be understood, so let us instead turn our attention to the Toy Story porn parody - Sex Toy Story The XXX Parody Part 1.
It says Part 1, but … -
When to use CSS vs. JavaScript
CSS before JS #
My general rule of thumb is…
If something I want to do with JavaScript can be done with CSS instead, use CSS.
CSS parses and renders faster.
For things like animations, it more easily hooks into the browser’s refresh rate cycle to provide silky smooth animations (this can be done in … -
Is it just me, or is this some fantastic fucking casting. For the first time perhaps ever, I feel confident that a remake of an already-good film has the potential to be awesome. -
@RespectableLaw on North Sentinel Island
There's been a lot of talk about the missionary killed by the natives of North Sentinel Island. They're probably so aggressive because of this weirdo, Maurice Vidal Portman. So here's a big thread about this creep and some facts from my decade-long obsession with the island.
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Love is a Gift
Phil Beastall (YouTube)
I'm not cryin, you're crying. Shut up. It's just really dusty in here. And I think somebody must have been cutting onions.