Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care
just updated my site and added a few new creative coding projects:
git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com/index.txt)";
currently doing some experiments with portraits and openstreetmap data. can you guess the city and the person? #osm #javascript #creativecoding
Just discovered the CSS `@counter-style` at-rule.
Looks promising, but only firefox supports it (since v33):
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@counter-style
Recently I learned about a handy way to prevent scrolling while focusing an element:
element.focus({ preventScroll: true })
Sadly it only seems to work in Chrome currently, but hopefully Firefox/Safari will implement it soon, since it's in the WHATWG HTML spec: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLElement/focus#Parameters
i compiled some of my #creativecoding sketches into an advent calendar.
you can check it out here:
great talk on old + new browser apis: "the most annoying website" https://youtu.be/QFZ-pwErSl4
There's a secret reason that programmers love to promote "Learn to Code" initiatives. No one talks about it, but I'm about to break the silence on this wide open.
I could get professionally banned for saying this, but the truth must come out!
Are you ready?
Okay, here it is:
We're seriously hoping someone new will come in and fix all this bullshit we're dealing with. Seriously - it's bad. Help us. Please? SAVE US!
I’m done with Chrome as they try to force Google login—and thus tracking—for all their users.
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
(currently seems to be reverted but certainly showing the goal of the browser/company).
just noticed my home town #wuerzburg in the background of a collegehumor video about contaminated water. not quite sure what to do with this information.
(the video: https://youtu.be/ZBD1d-NnCCQ?t=1m7s )