ChronodeVFD: A Cyberpunk Wristwatch | johngineer The ChronodeVFD is a personal project I’ve been working on for a couple of months. It’s a wristwatch built around the IVL2-7/5 VFD display tube. I originally purchased a few of these tubes to build a standard desk clock, but after playing around with them, I realized I could […]
Work This Week – Week 4
flickr photo shared by Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) WP Upgrades & Feed WordPress Error WordPress 4.7 came out. It does some good things and internalizes the JSON API stuff. Upgrades went well on most of our installs. We did have some issues though. Feed WordPress didn’t/doesn’t […]
Photography – Week 149
Instagram-ish WordPress Filter Shortcode Plugin
That beautiful link-bait title and a picture of a dead leaf! That’s why I’m a social media guru. With that self-promotion out of the way . . . I found this CSS library from Una.1 It lets you apply instagram-like filters to image via CSS. Also got to have a nice interaction with Una via […]
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API Nirvana – The Content
Long, long ago Kin and I did the API Nirvana presentation at Open Ed 2016. The following images are screenshots of the presentation embedded above. I described the construction in reveal.js here. There’s a good chance the images below link to the right slides in the presentation. I need to think through how this particular […]
Work This Week – Week 3
FI Bootstrap Collapsibles Divs Our Focused Inquiry people are building an online resource for first-year students. One of the things they wanted to do was to put a bunch of concepts in collapsible divs and be able to use a URL to link to a particular expanded div. The initial plugin they were using for […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-11-27
Figs | Datalegreya My Lies, Translated – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency “I’M GOOD EITHER WAY.” This is not true. I actually have very deep preferences about the course of action our group chooses to take this evening, but I’m keeping those preferences private because I fear conflict more than I desire happiness. Welcome to Sin News: […]
API Nirvana – Functional Details
I am way behind on blog posts. I’m also bad about telling the difference between blog posts I’ve written in my head and blog posts I’ve actually written. I am glad that being able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy is not that important. Sparked back to reality by this Tweet involving many […]
Photography – Week 148
Not sure what they’re up to but . . . hey . . . TEAMWORK! […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2016-11-20
Shift Your Point of View to When America Was “Better” | FlowingData DISOBEDIENT ELECTRONICS: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | WIRED As a context, here is a list of some projects that would fit as “Disobedient Electronics”: – Natalie Jeremijenko – Feral Robotic Dogs – The Bureau of Inverse Technology – Suicide Box – Michelle Teran – […]