Justin starts a blog

Harmony Procedural Drawing Tool

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:10:53 -0500

Here’s the original I based yesterday’s March Madness program off of. The tools are much nicer than in my quickie version.

Just a quickie today, circle patterns done in canvas.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:09:30 -0500

Just a quickie today, circle patterns done in canvas.

laughingsquid: Art, Design & The Arduino: a lineage (NYC...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:57:39 -0500

laughingsquid:

Art, Design & The Arduino: a lineage (NYC Resistor)

Here’s a simple paint program I made using canvas. ...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:37:45 -0500

Here’s a simple paint program I made using canvas. It’s a pretty blatent ripoff of another one that a friend showed me today, but unfortunately I don’t have the URL handy. (Sorry, I’ll update in the morning!) The framework makes it pretty simple for you to add your own tools. Source.

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:58:24 -0500

Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript:

kevin:

dancroak:

Awesome online book.

kenyatta: Lost Garden: Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:56:40 -0500

kenyatta:

Lost Garden: Ribbon Hero turns learning Office into a game

Imagine Microsoft Office turned into a video game. One where learning a productivity app is a delight. One where the core loop of gameplay involves using and gaining skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Ribbon Hero, in part, was born from a speech I gave back in October 2007 on applying the design lessons of Super Mario Bros. to application design. I made the following bet:

* If an activity can be learned…

* If the player’s performance can be measured…

* If the player can be rewarded or punished in a timely fashion…

* Then any activity that meets these criteria can be turned into a game.

Not only can you make a game out of the activity, but you can turn tasks traditionally seen as a rote or frustrating into compelling experiences that users find delightful.

via dj

sarahcooley: innonate: anyclip: Going to SXSW? You’re...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:51:16 -0500

sarahcooley:

innonate:

anyclip:

Going to SXSW? You’re Invited!

Sunday, March 14th, from 10pm - 2am, we’re cohosting a Digital Speakeasy with our very good friends at blip.tv

RSVP here.

The party is sponsored by the fine folks at PepsiCo (@pepsico), and will take place at Cedar Street Courtyard (the same place where Tumblr had their smashing party last year).

This is going to be insanely fun. Join us.

This is a great venue! I’m excited about this

For today’s March Madness program I made a visualization...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:28:38 -0500

For today’s March Madness program I made a visualization of Tumblr quotes from a few friends I follow. I turn the text into a tumbleweed and let it ramble on by across the screen. It could definitely use some optimization as canvas doesn’t seem to handle lots of text rendering too well. Source

For today’s March Madness program I wanted to try to do...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:50:49 -0500

For today’s March Madness program I wanted to try to do something useful with the canvas tag. I decided it would be nice to be able to programmatically generate a background gradient for a web page based on the time of day. If you’re looking at the site in the morning the colors would be different from afternoon, sunset, midnight, etc. I created a hidden canvas tag to do my work and then used the toDataURL method to pass the resulting image to the body’s CSS. Source

For tonight’s March Madness program I wrote a crude logo...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:01:21 -0500

For tonight’s March Madness program I wrote a crude logo interpreter in javascript. Ladies and gentlemen, start your turtles!

alconpowersauce: via @SI_24seven There, ESPN executives...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:50:56 -0500

alconpowersauce:

via @SI_24seven

There, ESPN executives offered a demonstration of the network’s new 3-D capability. Unbeknownst to those of us at the game, USF-Kansas served as the first field test of a college football game. The demonstration, which also included clips from the 2009 USC-Ohio State game and the Winter X-Games, featured footage of Bonani’s kick.

Johnny Five?

I’m 3 for 3 so far on FUBAR Labs’ March Madness...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:50:06 -0500

I’m 3 for 3 so far on FUBAR Labs’ March Madness program-a-day challenge. Yesterday I wrote an analog clock using the HTML5 canvas tag. You can find all my March Madness programs on this page.

I’m sure you’ve all been following the amazing ARG...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:46:04 -0500

I’m sure you’ve all been following the amazing ARG unfolding from a Portal patch released three days ago. One part that I think has been overlooked is that all the clues are related to communication via sound. The radio playing morse code, the BBS transmitting via modem, the images coded in sound files, and who knows what will follow. Perhaps a clue to a theme underlying Valve’s next release.

Seeing the Wild Beasts show on Friday was like seeing the...

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:53:06 -0500

Seeing the Wild Beasts show on Friday was like seeing the unveiling of a great magic act. Every time you thought you understood the situation your assumptions would get questioned again.

nathanieljames: Dear America, I tried to avenge today’s loss...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:25:49 -0500

nathanieljames:

Dear America,

I tried to avenge today’s loss to Canada, but they were too good. Their skinny was too fast and their fatty was too strong. Team USA immediately left the ice with their heads hung in shame, only to console themselves with fried bacon dipped in ranch dressing in the locker room.

—Me

Ooh remember when this game came out and Nintendo introduced that weird spinny disc controller? That thing was crappy.

rillawafers: Ever met a Republican not Owned by the Insurance...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:50:36 -0500

rillawafers:

Ever met a Republican not Owned by the Insurance Industry? - Anthony Weiner just owned your whole fucking party.

Fuck Yeah Anthony Weiner! It’s a good thing he didn’t win against Bloomberg because he’s too awesome not to be in Washington right now.

In the future, men will have 10 asses.

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:02:31 -0500

YR: If you have 5 hands you don't necessarily have 5 arms.
JA: If you have 5 hands how many asses do you have?
YR: As many as you need.

Back at the Hackathon and there’s lots of donuts. I...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:17:07 -0500

Back at the Hackathon and there’s lots of donuts. I decided to find and consume the worst possible one. This is the winrar. God Bless America. Defeat the world!

klaatu: Computer Engineer Barbie Adam tootts timeout from the...

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:57:55 -0500

klaatu:

Computer Engineer Barbie

Adam tootts timeout from the Hackathon last night to decode the binary displayed on Barbie’s laptop. It says simply BARBIE.

Dear Idiots (Republicans),

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:50:31 -0500

evangotlib:

Snow in winter does not mean global warming is not happening. Please stop embarrassing us in front of the rest of the world.

Thanks,

Evan

(inspired by: Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze)

It was the warmer than normal air that held on to all the moisture that buried you. Asses.