Emil Björklund:
Just realized that you can hide elements in CSS by putting them *behind* the viewer.
http://bukk.it/mindblown2.gif
@thatemil what, by making it so large that the elements come out of the screen and go behind the user? Can that be animated?
tradition.is was thoroughly enjoyable and filled with excellent music+dancing — met new friends, learned new tunes+dances+singing styles and generally had a good time. Longer blog post upcoming, for now here’s my post-festival #tabdump:
Not all necessarily related to the festival, but learned about in the duration. Amusingly, last.fm/music/BLM has a big photo of the BLM which performed at tradition.is, but is about someone completely different!
ind.ie:
(And we are continuing to edit the videos and working on the player code so do let us know if you notice any issues.)
@indie thanks for posting the transcripts! Any plans to serve the videos in a free encoding as per https://www.fsf.org/licensing/h264-patent-license, http://www.fsf.org/news/supporting-webm? Current encoding cannot be played by Firefox Nightly.
@schussman great work getting webmention comments set up on your site, and thanks for the kind words about my microformats2 blog post — good to know it was helpful :)
The Finnish Karelian coat of arms looks like an Adventure Time character:
The Russian one is a fire-breathing bear with knuckledusters (pawdusters? clawdusters?), which might also make a good Adventure Time character:
Checked into Háskóli Akureyri for tradition.is workshop day two
@erinjo the one I’m writing this reply in :) indiewebcamp.com/Shrewdness
Aaron Parecki:
@barnabywalters now this I would like to see!! I was thinking about building a soundcloud-like player as well actually. Even found some libraries to do the mp3 -> png waveform thumbnail generation! #music
@aaronpk oooh really? Which libraries? I looked a while ago and couldn’t find any, though it looks like it can be done with the new Web Audio APIs…
Lewis Cowper:
@graphiclunarkid It looks like you’re stumbling toward the #indieweb and what they call POSSE - http://indiewebcamp.com/POSSE
@lewiscowper @graphiclunarkid yep, that sounds a lot like POSSE! Check out indiewebcamp.com/WordPress, there are some tools listed there you might find useful, and indiewebcamp.com/IRC for any questions :)
Brian Suda:
left comments open on post about usernames of children of the digital age. http://optional.is/required/2014/08/12/second-generation-usernames/ 1 comment and no spam. It won't last.
@briansuda enable webmention comments + bridgy for twitter comments! Barely any spam that way (yet, and we’re working on future spam prevention tools) indiewebcamp.com/WordPress
Ugh, all the papers I can find about potato heat penetration are behind paywalls. Apparently I’ll have to research it myself #freePotatoKnowledge #openPotatoScience
Is there a list somewhere of all the #ferguson announcements/statements made by officials e.g. local government, police, state+higher level government?
The new papaparse.com is one of the best open source library websites I’ve ever seen. Going to be referring to this pattern in the future.
Bárðarbunga’s hit orange en.vedur.is/weather/aviation/volcanic-hazards after >48hrs of continuous earthquakes. Revise your Icelandic pronounciation now, so you can smugly correct the news reporters when it goes off!
Bárðarbunga: baur-tha-bun-ga
All booked up for tradition.is next Thurs-Sat. Looking forward to hearing and learning some Nordic music and dance, and visiting Akureyri again!
Had a wonderful time playing #gurdy at Stóri Eyglóar-dagurinn — thanks to all who came and supported Eygló! Played my new tunes The Taste of Words and Jellyfish 500 (not yet notated), and accompanied Eygló singing Vísur Vatnsenda Rósu and Sofðu unga ástin mín.
I didn’t video it myself but hope to have one to link to in a week or so.
It’s hard to beat cardboard, Arduino and puredata for quick electronic #music hardware prototyping:
#TIL about the Weiquan Movement
This evening’s Icelandic-Austrian fusion cooking: Kaiserschmarrn with rabarbara sulta (rhubarb jam). No photo because I ate it already.
Attempting to reproduce a weird, That Browser With Flash issue by opening ALL THE TABS:
It’s like a little mountain range!
Edit: I made so many tabs they go off the screen, and That Browser With Flash just ignores it, stubbornly insisting that there are only as many tabs as can fit on the screen. Yet another example of Firefox having Superior Prowess (TBWF is seriously fast though)