ideamonk

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Comment · 7 years ago

Interesting opinions, you might enjoy testing the strong-hold in winds of an anti-depressant related discussion - https://player.fm/series/philosophy-for-our-times/e123-minds...

Comment · 8 years ago

SpaceX has admirably ambitious goals. While cheering/hating is of negligible value, it doesn't hurt to broaden one's view about NewSpace.

Ref: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-ffc-12-in_elon_we_trust

Comment · 9 years ago

From history - KGB propagandist Yuri Bezmenov talks about normalisation in context of subversion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnpCqsXE8g (1983, LA)

Comment · 10 years ago

TouchBar will play nice with digital audio workstations like Logic Pro / Live, etc. I'll be happy to record pitch/mod/any VST param automations on a touch strip.

DJ-ing apps could show up cue points and let you trigger them.

While fullscreen mode on macOS advocated distraction-free focus, TouchBar takes a step backwards.

Comment · 10 years ago

I'm a frontend+design guy, I tend to do it time to time.

Comment · 10 years ago

OT: they forgot to setup their meta tags properly. The description is set to "Responsive Minimal Bootstrap Theme"

Comment · 11 years ago

You may also find this useful - "Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music" - http://www.analogindustries.com/b1764/

Comment · 14 years ago

Pixel-by-pixel is an abuse indeed, sizes are huge, generation easy. It's like generated ascii art vs hand-made thoughtful pieces of work.

I like to rebound some dribbble shots with css3 http://dribbble.com/ideamonk/projects/97353-Pure-CSS3

I enjoy two aspects of this -

1. Figuring out what the overall is composed of by looking hard

2. Rendering with limited power available in CSS (no photoshop ninja here)

And sometimes I animate them too - http://heldfree.com/play/dropbox/ (best viewed in Safari)

With these I've also found a few subtle differences between how Chrome and Safari render translucent gradients, large shadows, etc.

This is a somewhat rewarding but an entertaining thing to do :)

Comment · 14 years ago

On significantly large projects, the compass compiler can take a lot more time than lessc. Eg. Sencha Touch's sass based styling.

Comment · 14 years ago

I just printed a super-mini version of 'one thing' for my home office - http://i.imgur.com/3oa6a.jpg (single founder edition) . Grab original here - http://heldfree.com/one-thing.png

The text shape can also easily be wrapped over a tall whiskey bottle :)