brendanr
Joined 13 years ago
Karma
73
Submissions
25
Member since
Apr 8
Recent submissions
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 6 years ago
The vegetables gardens were there literally 90 minutes ago when I took a photo of them.
Comment · 8 years ago
The transition to CSS transitions seems primitive to me.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati... makes it sound very much like a fire-and-forget approach.
My concern, also when building UI with React, is that web design is often only interested in end-state of an interface, playing a bunch of fire-and-forget animations to transition between states.
The reality, that only games and Apple seem to have embraced, is that it's far more sophisticated for animation to reflect a state that can change at 60 or even 120 frames per second, depending on what the user is doing.
This is a great presentation from Apple, Designing Fluid Interfaces, that captures the concept: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803/
Am curious: have any web frameworks embraced this approach?
Comment · 8 years ago
It's not a question of browser support, it's a question of infrastructure support. When I was using them years ago, there were a lot of networks which blocked them.
Comment · 8 years ago
Is it okay to rely solely on websockets these days? I was always impressed by pusher.com's commitment to a variety of fallback protocols (and there are three blog posts about it, see https://blog.pusher.com/how-we-built-pusher20-part-1/)
Comment · 8 years ago
Big fan of Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin biography, but also did not enjoy his Jobs one. The most interesting part of the story was when Jobs returned to Apple and executed perfectly on everything. It seemed that he'd learned some very important lessons and had undergone quite the transformation. The book doesn't hint at what he'd learned; it just recounts things happening really well. It left so many unanswered questions, and didn't even notice they were there to be explored.
Comment · 8 years ago
Canvas drawing is fast on platforms where it's hardware accelerated, which has been the case on things like iOS Safari for years now. At least in the past it was also beneficial to make a few optimisations such as drawing to integer pixel coordinates, avoiding special paths for subpixel rendering.
Comment · 8 years ago
Canvas doesn't have a DOM, for what it's worth.
Comment · 10 years ago
The perf issues sound suspicious. At least in the past, canvas sprites on iOS can get very slow if you don't render to integer coordinates.
Hopefully the author attached macOS Safari to his iOS device to do some basic debugging and profiling.
Comment · 10 years ago
Does anybody remember the old Manhunter games from Sierra? They used a very similar idea of replaying a timeline multiple times to track a bunch of suspects as they interacted throughout an event. What was a clever but abstract sci-fi game mechanic has suddenly become reality.
Comment · 10 years ago
Seems to be in https://github.com/bookiza/bookiza
Comment · 10 years ago
For Code.org, you will find https://code.org/about/2015 to be quite interesting, including a breakdown of where money was spent. You'll see that a lot goes towards training teachers and building interesting programs.
Comment · 11 years ago
nice design, but i wonder if their design team has any non-retina machines? the anti-aliasing in the tilted phone UI is pretty bad in Chrome on a non-retina display.
It's open source, and we wrote some technical documentation at https://github.com/code-dot-org/code-dot-org/blob/600ebafa52....
There were a bunch of interesting aspects to this project. One of my favorite things was developing the user programming model. Organizing your music using functions is very powerful.