CSS Lists, Markers, And Counters
There is more to styling lists in CSS than you might think. In this article, Rachel starts by looking at lists in CSS, and moving onto some interesting features defined in the CSS Lists specification — markers and counters.
July 12, 2019Making an interactive hoverboard game using JavaScript and web sockets.
This version of the experiment works by having the main webpage open on your computer and another webpage open on your mobile phone to get the accelerometer data.
Using the DeviceOrientation Web API, the orientation of the phone is detected and sent to the browser on your laptop via WebSockets.
By placing your phone on a skateboard, it can become a controller. You can use the orientation data to apply it to the 3D environment and interact with the game as if you were on a hoverboard.
July 12, 2019Popup Trombone
another sorta good web thing by matthew rayfield world in 2019
July 12, 2019Get started making sounds
On this website, you’ll learn the basics of using synthesizers (or synths). No prior experience or equipment is required; you’ll do everything right here in your browser.
July 12, 2019Chaos Design: Before the robots take our jobs, can we please get them to help us do some good work?
Why did we even invent computers in the first place? “...These facts seemed to me to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers
This excerpt is from the first paragraph in *The Origin of Species*. Ive highlighted the word philosopher here because its easy to miss. But here is Charles Darwin giving a shout out to this unnamed person in the opening paragraph of his most seminal work.
July 12, 2019