Breakout: optimizing rust+WASM
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My Blog is Dead. Long Live My Blog.
A bit about the past few years, and the next few.
2012
Generating planets with javascript and WebGL
I recently stated using three.js to play around with webgl and here are the first fruits - procedurally generating planets with javascript. The demo is avali...
mocap.js - A Motion Capture library
I've recently been playing around with the WebRTC (web real-time communication) stack, in particular getUserMedia which grants you access to the webcam and m...
Making a web-based CV
Recently I set about updating my cv and I decided to overhaul it into a web-page: one that works on any size device and that nice reformats for print... howe...
DeltaImg: resolution and bandwidth responsive images
tl;dr A resolution and bandwidth responsive image system is shown. All img tags start pointing to the low res image versions, then javascript downloads (in t...
Switching default search to DuckDuckGo
I've been trying out DuckDuckGo (DDG) for a while now and it has some very nice features: No user tracking Encryption by default They don't 'bubble' your se...
Fully CSS (bordered) popup bubble
This is my addition to the world of totally css popup bubbles: borders on tooltips - life changing, I know. The challenge is this: create a pop-up bubble for...
2011
My very own infinite carousel (aka - "picture-spinny-thing")
After a conversation with a friend, I set about making a non-flash carousel because, you know, I'm cool and that..... Then after making it I needed to store ...
Web Workers and drive by CPU nabbing
Web workers are a great part of the html5 specification. They let you run a javascript program in a separate process; so that complex tasks can be done in th...
Box2d.js and load times
I recently discovered box2djs by Ando Yasushi, a nice little physics simulation engine made to run in javascript, here's an example from the homepage: Howev...
Openid A Generic Implementation
Ï--- layout: post title: OpenID - a generic implementation date: 2011-06-03 09:16:59.000000000 +01:00 categories: [] tags: - Javascript - Login systems - Ope...
Zooming-Good-Gallery
I'll admit that I'm slightly obsessed with zoomooz.js, it's a cross-browser (excluding IE) nice zoom plugin for jQuery. And although it has some issues with ...
The Anatomy of a Spam Scam
Note: I'll be updating this as I go Got some blatantly rubbish spam the other day: From: XXX@ifsertao-pe.edu.br Date: 14 March 2011 11:54 Subject: Notificat...
Interactive Ray Optics
Here's the ray optics demonstration I made during my PhD. It models ray-surface interactions in javascript... and that's pretty much it! But it's still quite...