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- RT @EFF: One patent troll has sued hundreds of companies over its vehicle-tracking patents. Today, we're fighting back. https://t.co/E7YYOc… 4 months ago
- good news about API’s, fair use, and copyright! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… 4 months ago
- RT @rkoutnik: I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man Month so he could read it twice as fast 5 months ago
- I just saw live streaming 360º video using Ricoh Theta S and hugvr.com #mindblown #WebAudioConf 5 months ago
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BirdWalker, then and now
“About time, too. He’s been looking dreadful for days; I’ve been telling him to get a move on.“—Albus Dumbledore about his phoenix Fawkes after Fawkes burst into flame Just as Fawkes periodically must burst into flames and rise again from … Continue reading
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Birdsongs, Musique Concrète, and the Web Audio API
In January 2015, my friend and collaborator Brian Belet and I presented Oiseaux de Même — an audio soundscape app created from recordings of birds — at the first Web Audio Conference. In this post I’d like to describe my … Continue reading
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Highlights of the first Web Audio Conference
I recently had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the first Web Audio Conference, co-sponsored by IRCAM and Mozilla. I wanted to share some of the great things that I learned about there. Meyada, Hugh Rawlinson Meyada is a … Continue reading
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Using Google Maps in a responsive design
[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading
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Video of my YUIConf talk about open web app development
The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading
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Replacing Google Image Charts with D3.js
[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading
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DevCon5 — on learning from games, Monty Sharma, Mass Unity
Monty Sharma gave a great talk this morning at DevCon5 about the current trends in games and what the rest of us can learn from them. He centers on three big ideas: Free-to-Play. Find a way to let dedicated users … Continue reading
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