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Interview with an Intiface Haptics Engineer

25.4.2022
I was recently re-reading my Interview with a PornHub Web Developer and one bit I started thinking about was the VR question and the idea of making users not just see but feel` something. The haptic feedback of VR games is what really sets them apart from your standard PC or console game. So when...

Metaphors We Web By

1.2.2022
Maggie Appleton gets into what is perhaps the foremost metaphor the web is founded on: paper. Paper documents were the original metaphor for the web. […] The page you’re reading this on still mimics paper. We still call it … Metaphors We Web By originally published...

Thank You (2021 Edition)

1.1.2022
The year has come to a close and it’s time again for our end-of-year wrapup. The most important message is this: thank you. (thankyouthankyou) Thanks for stopping by and reading this site. If you didn’t, I’d be out … Thank You (2021 Edition) originally published...

Maybe there kinda is background-opacity?

15.12.2021
I was reading Jake’s “Cross-fading any two DOM elements is currently impossible” which is a wonderfully nerdy deep dive into how there is no real way to literally cross-fade elements. Yeah, you can animate both of their opacities, but even …

navigator.clipboard API

13.12.2021
Reading from and writing to the user’s clipboard can be both a very useful and dangerous capability. Used correctly and it’s a huge convenience to the user; used dubiously and the user could suffer catastrophic consequences. Imagine a wrong account number or wallet address being copied...

Line length revisited: following the research

16.11.2021
Mary Dyson produces nitty gritty research on the long-accepted notion that shorter line lengths are more legible than longer ones. The study finds that shorter lines do not necessarily lead to faster reading. If you’re looking for a definitive answer … The post Line length revisited:...

LeVar Burton No Longer Wants To Be Jeopardy! Host

19.9.2021
The internet’s mission to help LeVar Burton become the host of the long-running game show Jeopardy! has come to an end now that Burton himself ain’t interested in the gig. This adds another chapter into this Summer’s odd saga of “Who Will Host Jeopardy!”Read more

Ukraine Adopts Law ‘On Virtual Assets’ to Regulate Crypto Market

9.9.2021
The parliament in Kyiv has passed legislation determining the rules for crypto-related operations in Ukraine. The law “On Virtual Assets” recognizes cryptocurrencies as intangible goods while denying them the status of legal tender. It also regulates the activities and obligations...

Dark Mode in One Line of Code!

19.7.2021
Dark mode has seemingly become the desired visual mode for websites and mobile apps alike. Dark mode is easier on the eyes, especially for those like me who like to burn the midnight oil by coding and reading tutorials. Unfortunately not all websites offer dark mode, so it’s up to me...

1994 Story On Video Game Crunch Is Brutal Reading

26.5.2021
Widescale reporting of terrible working conditions at video game studios is a relatively recent thing, but crunch has always been with us, and as we can see in this rare story about the practice from the 1990s, when it’s bad it can be life-threatening.Read more

In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu

18.3.2021
I still remember my excitement when I learned how to build a hover-triggered submenu with just CSS. (It was probably after reading this 2003 article from A List Apart.) At the time, it was a true CSS trick. Seriously. … The post In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu appeared first...

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language

22.2.2021
One of the things I do when teaching beginning front-end development is ask students to describe what it’s like to read HTML. I give them pretty basic markup for a long-form article, and ask them to read it twice: first … The post To the brain, reading computer code is not the same...

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