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callumprentice

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About callumprentice

British bloke and US citizen, in the Los Angeles South Bay via San Francisco, Singapore, Barcelona, Zurich, London and Hong Kong ● Second Life developer at Linden Lab during the day since 2004 ● Enthusiastic WebGL/WebXR hacker in the evenings ● Founder of Industrial Might and Logic Combat Robots ● Eager traveller ● Crossfit and indoor rowing aficionado ● Insanely happy husband and father

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    Comment #48477586

    Excellent article but I am always torn when I read inspirational articles like this - it makes perfect sense to me and I love the idea of simple, non-nonsense sites that work well,…

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    Comment #47801702

    I figured this was some kind of home-grown prosthetic arm whose wearer could, using AI, draw any artwork online, speak ASL, perform minor surgery on themselves and so much more so …

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    Comment #47703609

    I made something like this (in the VERY broadest sense) 10 years ago - inspired me to revisit and update both visuals and data (a lot has changed in that time). https://callumprent…

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    Comment #47635600

    As someone who do the whole mileage actual thing for many years (millions of Chase and Amex points) but also a family and a full time job - IE 3 seats vs 1 and can’t leave for a tr…

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    Comment #47446714

    Understood. This was in Manhattan Beach which is expensive for everything but still, that delta is incredible. Actually, I noticed one near there yesterday on PCH (forget which sta…

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    Comment #47427955

    $6.84999 at the Shell station near my gym this morning.

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    Comment #47426440

    SoCal gas is at least $6.85 a gallon.

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    Comment #47354756

    Trivial to see the raw GLB files in a Viewer that gives you a bit more control. https://github.khronos.org/glTF-Sample-Viewer-Release/?model...

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    Comment #46798052

    Also beautifully done. Love it!

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    Comment #46789911

    FWIW, I was able to select a Logitech USB webcam on my Mac mini running Sequoia.

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    Comment #46789897

    So much fun and beautifully implemented. I wish there was a way to use the output/preview as a virtual camera in Meet, Zoom etc. I could drive my colleagues potty with some of thes…

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    Comment #46748091

    Thank goodness. My Gmail address is my first name so I typically get many hundreds of spam’s a day which are almost all caught. Dozens in my inbox today so I figured something was …

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    Comment #46623472

    I've long admired your work online both for its writing quality and incredible insight. Thank you for sharing all these years.

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    Comment #46541217

    Agreed! I felt the same way but sitting here with my morning coffee chuckling away. A good start to the day.

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    Comment #46534165

    https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/flight_stream/index.ht... Something similar but for flights and in 3D. 12 years old now - might be fun to see what new data is out there - rea…

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    Comment #46516018

    Phenomenal collection but like the parent of this message, I have many similar sites bookmarked but without a good bookmark manager (Chrome), it's hard to add meta data like "I rea…

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    Comment #46512454

    Fascinating. Can you share your non-private Zed config? I still have mine from before the switch - I'd like to compare.

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    Comment #46507003

    I'll try that - thank you.

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    Comment #46506291

    I tried Zed for a few months but just couldn't get the JavaScript/Python syntax checking and Prettier type reformatting to work reliably. I would poke at it for a few hours, get it…

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    Comment #46467026

    I agree with an earlier post that asserted "net worth = assets - liabilities" but I'd like to do better at understanding what that really means. Some are easy like the size of your…

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    Comment #46331615

    What a lovely story and a great connection to a post. Thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #45740184

    Wow - that's incredible. I can't wait to take a look. Thanks for the pointer.

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    Comment #45734944

    https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer/ind... My daughter and I made this 10 years ago for the NASA Space Apps Challenge and I notified a whole bunch of folk at N…