12 April 2018
A font constructed entirely by CSS. It is, essentially, a programmatic realtime typeface. I love how it degrades for older versions of IE: It’s not what I’d consider practical for production use. Still, CSS Sans is a hell of a demonstration of how far CSS has come since Microsoft shipped Internet Explorer 3 in 1996, […]
11 April 2018
Zeynep Tufekci with some strong medicine, for Wired: In 2003, one year before Facebook was founded, a website called Facemash began nonconsensually scraping pictures of students at Harvard from the school’s intranet and asking users to rate their hotness. Obviously, it caused an outcry. The website’s developer quickly proffered an apology. “I hope you understand, […]
27 March 2018
Crunch is a macOS tool for lossy PNG image file optimization. It combines selective bit depth, color type, and color palette reduction with zopfli DEFLATE compression algorithm encoding using embedded versions of the pngquant and zopflipng PNG optimization tools. The example images are impressive. Obviously, you won’t want to use this on your archival or […]
26 March 2018
Pay me $5 and I’ll print and mail you a copy of any picture you like on 4 x 6-inch glossy photo paper. SLOWGRAM refuses to scale up or optimize.
23 March 2018
An excellent, necessary, article: Women’s wrestling was still riding high in the early 1950s and women across the country saw Burke, and no doubt her income, and wanted to follow suit—including a trio of sisters living in Columbus, Ohio. Babs Wingo was the first of the three to start training as a professional wrestler, followed […]
21 March 2018
Thomas Reed, for MalwareBytes: Two iPhones can be connected at one time, and are connected for about two minutes. After that, they are disconnected from the device, but are not yet cracked. Some time later, the phones will display a black screen with the passcode, among other information. The exact length of time varies, taking […]
19 March 2018
Zeynep Tufekc, for the New York Times: Mr. Grewal is right: This wasn’t a breach in the technical sense. It is something even more troubling: an all-too-natural consequence of Facebook’s business model, which involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance. The […]
19 March 2018
Thousands of third party apps were designed solely to obtain and sell your data. It’s no surprise that the data ended up being used again on Facebook, one of the biggest advertising platforms on Earth.
16 March 2018
Single Link Twitter Post of the day. A skillful mash-up of the classic Pokemon battle theme and the Beatles song Eleanor Rigby. Includes a video of the MIDI notes being played. (via @joshmillard)
14 March 2018
Sam Biddle for The Intercept: When Mark Zuckerberg was asked if Facebook had influenced the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, the founder and CEO dismissed the notion that the site even had such power as “crazy.” It was a disingenuous remark. Facebook’s website had an entire section devoted to touting the “success stories” of […]
07 March 2018
Jen Simmons is doing a great job of introducing the core concepts of CSS Grid with this (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSquHt1VCf1x_-1ytlVMT0AMwADlWtc1). These videos have been a huge help to me getting up to speed on the state of the tech. Highly recommended.
05 March 2018
The Love2d game jam is over, but I’m not finished with Haunted Floating Eye yet. Release 2 dropped on Saturday, and is now available for download. I wrote a little about the release.
28 February 2018
An enraging story from Michael Smith and Polly Mosendz, for Bloomberg: Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent. Gun manufacturers have long held an unassailable position in American business and politics. They need to be reminded that […]
28 February 2018
A really cool article from poplurker about MST3k, which is an all-time favorite of mine, and the women behind the jokes, the fandom, and more.
26 February 2018
The Verge on the internet-wide #OneMoreVote protest scheduled for tomorrow. I will be participating, too. Let’s give Ajit Pai the worst week of his shitheaded life.
23 February 2018
Laurie Penny has some advice for men in the current cultural moment, and it is good advice. This passage, near the end, caught me right where it was aimed: Suck it up and let go. Let go of your resentment at women’s lack of patience, let go of your wounded pride, let go of your […]
20 February 2018
Created for LÖVE Jam 2018, my latest game is called Haunted Floating Eye. It’s something like a tower (lair) defense game, mixed with cruelty, base building and ennui. The jam has ended, but voting is open for the next 12 days. I’d really appreciate it you tried it out, and voted on the on the […]
13 February 2018
My colleagues at Occipital and I put together [this tutorial video] for customers of our Canvas home scanning application. I wrote the script and did the voiceover. My co-worker Karla Estrada shot, edited, and starred. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqJbFn5rJfE&rel=0 “Canvas: 3D Scanning Best Practices”
13 February 2018
This is one of the dumbest and most dangerous bugs I’ve ever heard of. From the KDE security list: When a vfat thumbdrive which contains “ or $() in its volume label is plugged and mounted trough the device notifier, it’s interpreted as a shell command, leaving a possibility of arbitrary commands execution. an example […]
07 February 2018
The docs don’t cover this, but the steps in this post got it working for me: Install composer apt-get install composer Run composer update from the extensions/Mailgun folder Run php maintainence/rebuildLocalizationCache.php from the main mediawiki folder. Running your own services get you into all sorts of fun trouble like this.
My name is Phil Nelson and I make beautiful things for a troubled world. I'm a designer / developer / writer / director / editor / narrator at Occipital.
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