Reading list, 5
13-19th April 2015
- tableflip dot club by (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻: "We’ve watched mediocre men whiz by us on a glass escalator [...] we’re denied opportunities because we aren’t “ready” for them [...] It’s time we take our potential elsewhere [...] We’re sharing our long memories of all the creeps who’ve hit on us and the cowards who’ve failed to promote us". Oh wow. This resonates so much with some of my experiences, wow. Yes. More tableflips are in order!
- Of undocumented Chrome features and unreadable W3C specs by ppk: "this sad state of affairs prevents me from writing tests and reporting their outcome on all these new, exciting technologies", or why new undocumented APIs without examples are a tragic failure
- The newly created Web Audio London meetup has published videos with the talks from the first meetup! they are in its YouTube channel
- There is also a Music Hackspace in London! I haven't been so I can't tell how good is it.
- More music: my pal Andy Lemon made a series of Commodore 64-based covers of 80s tunes
- Gifsicle - command line animated GIFs. We can always add new tools for our Animated GIF battles. Its website is pretty terse but the GitHub page is more detailed: "it can merge several GIFs into a GIF animation; explode an animation into its component frames; change individual frames in an animation; turn interlacing on and off; add transparency; add delays, disposals, and looping to animations; add and remove comments; flip and rotate; optimize animations for space; change images' colormaps; and other things"... swooooooooning
- More control over text-decoration by Chris Coyier at CSS-Tricks -- where the text-decoration CSS property can be further controlled with three new sub-properties: text-decoration-color, text-decoration-line and text-decoration-style. This is fantastic! I'm going to start using text-decoration-style: wavy everywhere! ;-)
- More CSS! Gradients are sometimes hard to visualise, so Patrick Brosset wrote a tool which would do exactly that. This week, he moved it from codepen to a GitHub repository. Look at it--can you make it better?
- Despoblados en Huesca - a website that collects all the abandoned towns and smaller settlements in Huesca, an Spanish province. I'm fascinated both by this and by the idea that some people do take over some of these settlements and make them inhabitable again. This notion of self-sufficiency has always intrigued me.
- DiscoGS - I acquired a Sinology home NAS last week and I have been carefully rearranging and sorting my music collection. This website is a fantastic resource when you really start getting perfectionist and detailed about PROPERLY TAGGING the files.