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Yearly Archives: 2012
Awesome AwesomeMillefiori: Ferrofluid mixed with water colors
June 26, 2012 – 2:49 pm
Fabian Oefner creates these arresting images by combining ferrofluids with watercolors. Magnetizing the ferrofluid forms channels along the magnetic field lines, pooling the colors in patterns that look much like psychedelic brains. Find out more about the project at itsnicethat.com.
Chartwell
June 26, 2012 – 2:33 pm
FF Chartwell is a tool for easily creating graphs, disguised as a font. It utilizes OpenType to interpret and visualize the data. The data also remains editable, allowing for painless updates.
Unfortunately, webfonts are not supported. Aside from that, this is absolutely brilliant.
Minimalist Lego Re-enactments of Classic Sci-Fi Movie Scenes
June 25, 2012 – 3:16 pm
Hermetus Bottle Opener & Resealer
June 24, 2012 – 6:14 pm
Sometimes, after you open a beer bottle, you wish you could reseal it. For those moments, the Hermetus Bottle Opener & Resealer might perfectly suit your purposes.
This is happening now.
June 8, 2012 – 6:08 pm
ten timeframes
June 8, 2012 – 5:59 pm
If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats—if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely?
-Paul Ford
Ten Timeframes, an incredible essay on time, measurement, product and the very purpose of our lives. Heartbeats well spent.
Stirling Engines
May 30, 2012 – 3:14 pm
Check out these amazing Stirling Engines from stirlingeezer on eBay.
Minor Spring Upgrades
May 27, 2012 – 12:34 am
After a bit of spring cleaning, I’m happy to present to you the new Alchemi.st.
You’ll probably note immediately the new design. It’s based of an excellent, free theme called “Codium Extend” from code-2-reduction.fr. I made some minor tweaks, not enough to really call it my design at all. What’s nifty about this particular design is that it reorganizes itself automatically based on the size of the browser window. That means that alchemi.st will look good on your phone, ipad, and laptop.
What’s more interesting though, is perhaps what you might not notice: I’ve patched Automattic’s lazy load plugin so that it also lazily loads all of the youtube and vimeo videos as well. Should make the blog feel snappier.
Here’s how to patch the lazy-load plugin for iframes:
in ./js/lazy-load.js change:
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$( 'img[data-lazy-src]' ).bind( 'scrollin', { distance: 200 }, function() { |
to
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$( '[data-lazy-src]' ).bind( 'scrollin', { distance: 200 }, function() { |
and in lazyload.php add this line in right before the “return $content”
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$content = preg_replace( '#]+?)src=[\'"]([^\'">]*)[\'"]([^>]*)>#', sprintf( ' <noscript>&amp;amp;lt;iframe${1}src="${2}"${3}&amp;amp;gt;</noscript>', 'about:blank' ), $content ); return $content; |
And that’s it! It should work as advertised.
Additionally, I’ve updated my wordpress/nginx config so that I can concatenate and asynchronously load all my javascript from amazon cloudfront with W3-totalcache.
To get it to work, first off, you have to instruct cloudfront to forward all query strings to your blog. Secondly, you need to configure w3-totalcache to rewrite the urls for the minified javascript and css. Third, add this to your nginx configuration for your blog:
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location ~* \.(css|js) { if (!-f $request_filename) { rewrite ^/wp-content/w3tc(.*?)/min/w3tc_rewrite_test$ /wp-content/w3tc$1/min/index.php?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 last; rewrite ^/wp-content/w3tc(.*?)/min/(.+\.(css|js))$ /wp-content/w3tc$1/min/index.php?file=$2 last; expires 365d; } } |
And that’s all. Let me know if you have any questions.
Spherical hexapod Robot
May 24, 2012 – 1:26 am
In the future, the line between cute and creepy is thin indeed.
Life in Life
May 22, 2012 – 1:53 pm
Using something called an OTCA metapixel (Outer Totalistic Cellular Automata Meta-Pixel), which is a pattern in Conway’s Game of Life, someone has implemented the Game of Life inside of another Game of Life.
Life simulating Life.
Incredible.
The Next Human Interface Revolution: Leap
May 21, 2012 – 4:57 pm
Though, one has to wonder if your arms would get tired. A commenter on Hacker News brought up Alan Kay’s famous quote about the “light pen”
By the way, Sketchpad was the first system where it was discovered that the light pen was a very bad input device. The blood runs out of your hand in about 20 seconds, and leaves it numb. And in spite of that it’s been re-invented at least 90 times in the last 25 years.
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